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The funny thing about this gen is, those high and mighty people who give unconditional praise to the PS2 and Xbox the previous gen have had the carpet beneath their feet by the Wii in one fell swoop! When things get a radical change, you'd expect a lot of outrage!

There are plenty of such users in places like GameFAQs, and I am pleased that Vgchartz is much more sane compared to the forums there!



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I quit using Gamespot forums because of those exact people. Sad when the users tear a huge internet community apart, let's all make sure nothing like that ever happens to Vgchartz!



It's quite amazing, really. In a site that is dedicated to sales figure comparisons (and therefore indirectly the console wars), there is less fighting in the community compared to mainstream gaming sites which are supposed to be "impartial" to the competition!



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I never had a computer or internet access when I was growing up. Nope none at all so everything was peaceful. You could hear the birds chirp in the sky ahhh. No there was no console wars going on at that time only birds chirping...... Until I made it to school Horrible x_x.



rocketpig said:
superwrxsti said:
Okay. But, we're not talking lifetime sales here... We're talking about a single years sales, sir. Regardless of my opinion on success, that wasn't the point of the thread. I just want to know why people are such assholes about everything videogame these days. Almost makes me want to ditch the internet for anything other than online gaming.

Oh please God, let this happen.

I can tell that you're no older than 21 or you're either too "new" to the Intraweb understand its working.

People bitch and moan about console sales because they love the drama. Now that the internet has given them the means to numerate their desires, they bitch and moan even more.

Get over it. If you really care to bitch about it on a forum, you obviously care enough about it yourself. So grab some popcorn and STFU. 


Wow.... There are a lot of dicks on this website.  You know far too little about me to make the idiotic claims listed above.



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Anyway, contrary to my previous post, and Rocketpig, there are a lot of well informed people on the site also and I have my answers. It's true to say that without conflict a forum with degrade and fall apart. It's unfortunate truth. Humans just aren't meant to co-exist peacefully.



Some points to why I don't think this is the worst:

1) SNES vs Genesis was much worse than this generation. "Genesis does...what Nintendon't" and the Mortal Kombat debacle caused some harsh console bashing back then.

2) Cursing out on the Internet



There is no such thing as a console war. This is the first step to game design.

superwrxsti said:
rocketpig said:
superwrxsti said:
Okay. But, we're not talking lifetime sales here... We're talking about a single years sales, sir. Regardless of my opinion on success, that wasn't the point of the thread. I just want to know why people are such assholes about everything videogame these days. Almost makes me want to ditch the internet for anything other than online gaming.

Oh please God, let this happen.

I can tell that you're no older than 21 or you're either too "new" to the Intraweb understand its working.

People bitch and moan about console sales because they love the drama. Now that the internet has given them the means to numerate their desires, they bitch and moan even more.

Get over it. If you really care to bitch about it on a forum, you obviously care enough about it yourself. So grab some popcorn and STFU.


Wow.... There are a lot of dicks on this website. You know far too little about me to make the idiotic claims listed above.


Perhaps the very fact that he made those claims should be indicative of something about the nature of your posts.



thanny said:
because the nintendo fanboys havent had much to cheer about for a good 10 years.


...myself included

 me too - it's our time now!!!



ClaudeLv250 said:
It's been worse, though I can somewhat understand why its mostly Sony fans after going from first to third in the blink of an eye and jumping into the secondary format wars.

I agree with this post to a wide extent.