Now, I'm sure some of you will spot the similarity of the title of this thread to that of another thread that is active at the moment. It's intentional, in that I'm trying to evoke concepts of that sort in creating this thread.

So, Sony fans, why do you hate Nintendo so much? Microsoft fans, why do you hate Sony so much? Nintendo fans, why do you hate Microsoft so much? And the same questions in reverse. EA fans, why do you hate Activision so much, etc, etc?

This thread isn't actually about that, per se. I mean, it's about those questions, but from a bit of a different perspective.

Why do any of you hate any of them?

Let me be clear - this thread is NOT about the social dynamics, or the psychology of it, or anything like that. It's about the people who read the thread. It's about introspection, and asking yourself, why do you actually HATE any of them, in that regard?

There's being critical of one of them. You can feel that, for instance, Nintendo doesn't take enough consideration into third parties when designing their hardware. That's fine. But then there's serious dislike, or desire to see them fail. The Schadenfreude. Why do you want to see any of them fail completely, or even partially?

Suppose that you live in one country. There's another country next to yours. Do you actively hope that the country falls into civil war, because it'll somehow prove that your country is better? I doubt that you would. So why hope for a gaming company to fail?

Let me be clear - I'm all for bad business practices failing. That's a different issue. You can actively hate a specific thing that a company is doing. But why hate the company? I don't think any of them could truly be said to be in any way forcing anything upon anyone here, or anybody else around the world.

This thread is about asking yourself these questions, and seriously thinking about whether or not you suffer from this problem. Don't just brush it off, it's easy to miss this attitude in yourself. If there's any doubt, ask yourself this - if you were in opposite positions with someone else, would you consider what you were thinking or saying to be a problem? If you are a Nintendo gamer, and think about the Vita and go "good, the 3DS is better", ask yourself this - "If the 3DS were the one that was struggling, would I happily admit that the 3DS is the worse system?" I think the answer may surprise you.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

*walks away while whistling*

because Y has a bigger penis than X

A letter with two holes in? Despicable.

I'm gonna be honest and say, I hate anything that isn't SONY!

because C told us that B is an arrogant bitch.

@Kresnik. Nice :).

@OP. I'm trying to introspect.As a Nintendo gamer, I grew up in the glory days of Nintendo. We grew up watching marketting that was anti-Nintendo. Back then it was SEGA. I felt like a jab at my childhood because to me Nintendo = a good portion of my childhood.

When the Playstation years arrived and Nintendo faltered due to its antiquated 3rd party policies, it was like seeing Micheal Jordan suck at baseball and golf. The guy was a legend, and it felt like almost an insult: an insult to Nintendo that I didn't like because Nintendo meant the world to me. An insult by 3rd parties, by the media which became pro-playstation and anti-Nintendo. The arrogance of some of the media at the time and of some of the people who were fans of the playstation was like a kick in the nuts, you knew just how good Nintendo was, but for some reason a company with at the time almost no compelling first party content was able to topple Nintendo and humiliate it. To add insult to injury, Nintendo actually made it through and survived almost solely on its 1st party offerings.

IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME.... The industry had shunned the most excellent publisher/manufacturer in the industry. Though the manufacturer side faltered, the consoles Nintendo put out were quality consoles with their weaknesses for sure, but the total exodus of 3rd party developers during the 64 and cube eras is a huge letdown to any Nintendo gamer.

It's that whole situation that gave and at times continues to give me a lot of resentment, that and the fact that despite the PS3 taking a blow this gen, that that arrogance is still residual in certain fans of the Playstation, the king of the last 2 gens.

Luckily, today, there are some excellent Sony fans to help flip that resentment on its head. But truly, honestly, this resentment is a very hard thing to reverse.

lol  +1

Because A is afraid of all the Bs, they got on it's I's
and the V wants the D.
and the D is silent.

also C is a giant C.

The truth is that nobody actually hates any game company. People hate fanboys of certain game company(s), and, to piss off the fanboys, they expose bad things, in their opinion, about the company that the fanboys love. It's simple as that.