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Polite/cultivated/intelligent Sony or Ms fans are old Nintendo fan that have moved on during the N64/GCN days.

The main annoying fans come from the PS2/XBOX/GCN era were they were spoilt with lovely 3D gfx as their first real gaming experience.

You could argue FPS fans are bad, but its mainly the teens. Those of us who grew up on FPS like duke, unreal, quake, tribes are a bit more civilised.



 

 

the_dengle said:

For well-documented reasons, Nintendo console owners are more likely to own multiple consoles. Therefore they are more likely to have broader tastes in games than those who game exclusively on one console.

So it's not so much that Nintendo gamers are more pleasant as it is multi-console owners are more pleasant, and Nintendo console owners are more likely to be multi-console owners.

I wouldn't identify a multi-console owner as a Nintendo gamer though.



Game_God said:


Couldn't agree more, evidently there are rude stupid Nintendo fans & polite/cultivated/intelligent Sony or Ms fans, but Nintendo games/environment don't seem to match with "hardcorz" bully minded "my gaming hobby is serious" teens!

Just for the anecdote, during the PS2 GameCube days, there was a country where Nintendo sold more GameCubes than Sony sold PS2, it was Canada,one could say that a a society with better education has different tastes, also the difference in sales between the PS2 & GC was smaller in other countries with better education in Europe too.

I hope that no one gets offended, but there seems to a relation between your level & quality of education & the games you play. Before people labelling me, I owned PS/PS2, SegaSaturn (they died on me...) own PS3, pretty much every Nintendo console except NES & VirtualBoy, Dreamcast, a top notch PC & play very different kind of games, from CS to MarioKart, passing by rFactor, SoulCalibur, Zelda, Battlefield 3, Flight Simulator, Journey, Red Dead Redemption, Tetris etc. so I hope to be Bias free. Take care

Just to make this short, you can dress this up as "an objective observation by an objective gamer" all you want, simple fact remains that your implication that more educated people rather bought the Gamecube over the PS2 since it suited their tastes better (or in other words the PS2 was for stupid people) is unbased and insulting.

Also I would very much appreciate a source for that part about Canada.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2014/03/30/video-games-violence/6437253/



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Soundwave said:

The worst are the Callofduty fanboys


I'll add that I've met cruel persons on Miiverse, but overall it shows how polite most of them (us) are.



Yep.

I don't like to stereotype, but I don't think this impression is too far off. There's a lot of bad eggs that feel the need to troll Sony or Microsoft platforms, but in general, it seems like Nintendo fans are much more relaxed about their hobby than other fans. I seem to see fans of other gaming platforms rip out each others' throats over the most trivial things. I think a big part of that is what Dengle said, that Nintendo fans tend to be more likely to purchase other platforms. The Nintendo-only gamer really isn't as prominent as some people seem to think.

Every fandom has obnoxious fans though, but there's a certain group within the other fandoms that seem to be absolutely impossible to have a decent discussion with, or seem to spend more time pointing out negative things about Nintendo than anything about their actual preferred platform.

Seriously, if you're not a fan of a certain platform, and have the majority of your posts in topics discussing that same platform...stop. You're the problem here.



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Offline and online, I completely disagree. Most of the people I know whose main console is a Nintendo console is far more biased and quick to judge regardless if they've never once played or heard about a game.



Depends on which type of Nintendo gamer you're talking about. If you're talking about the newer generation of Ninty fans that were honed on the DS and Wii, then yes, they are very nice.

If you're talking about older generations of Ninty gamers, especially the ones that have been there since the early days of the NES and fought through the Nintendo Vs SEGA war, then you're talking about a whole different animal.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

brendude13 said:
the_dengle said:

For well-documented reasons, Nintendo console owners are more likely to own multiple consoles. Therefore they are more likely to have broader tastes in games than those who game exclusively on one console.

So it's not so much that Nintendo gamers are more pleasant as it is multi-console owners are more pleasant, and Nintendo console owners are more likely to be multi-console owners.

I wouldn't identify a multi-console owner as a Nintendo gamer though.

Well, I'm operating under the assumption that someone who owns a 3DS and a PS3 is both a Nintendo gamer and a Sony gamer, even though most multi-console owners probably wouldn't self-identify as a [single company] gamer. Any objections, lady?