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Intrinsic said:

Call me crazy, but is it just me or there seems to be a lot of anti-sony hate goig on?

They call it constructive criticsm, or hide behind the whole if you don't agree then you are a troll and bla bla bla, but I think I have noticed a couple of things.

  1. Look up any and every PS4 exclusive game that has been announced and released. Before the 5th-10th posts on most gaming forums it deteriotes into sony bashing or how the game sucks, is generic, looks boring, looks short(?), is a new IP so it wouldn't sell well, is just like *insert game name here* cause its in the same genre. Every single PS exclusive. /* I don't know about that. I generally don't follow Sony game news, but I keep seeing more or less positive reactions. Criticisms I see are more or less related to originality, but it's largely due to your second reason. I think you're partially correct. */

  2. Then lets talk about features, sony announced share play and PSnow(which is still in beta). These are two features that at least if got right could be a game changer. But the amount of negative coments about them, especially being that almost every single person making such comments have never used the service, and most of them probably don't even own a PS4 is shocking. Can't help but wonder what would happen if this were a service coming to xbox or nintendo. /* Share Play is awesome. Almost got me to consider a PS4 instead of the Vita. Now, I really think that PSNow pricing, even if it is in beta, is simply atrocious. In fact, I'm thinking that it overshadows more important things to criticize like how good the quality of the stream is. You're partially correct on this one. */

  3. Then look at hardware, a much bigger deal is made about the PS4 wobbling when placed horizontally and how the touchpad is a useless addition than about how the XB1 is weaker, kinect needed to be taken out and is pretty much inessential to core gaming, or how even nintendo first party doesn't seem to know what to do with the wiiU screen. Look at the comments regarding morpheus ad then look at the comments regarding occulus rift. /* Take note that I don't follow VR, so I'll have to trust you on this one. Even if Morpheus is somehow worse than Occulus Rift, I doubt that it's as common as all the hardware criticism on the XBOne (Kinect, weaker hardware, 4GB vs 8GB RAM, DDR3 vs DDR5 RAM, price vs. power ratio, etc.) and Wii U (GamePad, last-gen hardware, cheap toy look, price vs. power ratio, etc.) So, you're partially correct, based on what both and I know. Combined. */

 

I am not saying that sony should get a free pass for every and anything, but I just think that everything sony seems to be met with more negativity than positivity. Is it that thre are just more non sony gamers on forums? Or the vocal minority that hate sony just seem to be doing a really really really good job of it?

I mean I am not a nintendo fan (anymore) or an xbox fan, but I have never been in a thread bashing a nintendo/xbox game. Any single one of them and thats not cause i Think they are all great, same applies to xbox games; I just know that not having or never playing those games puts me in the least position to have anything constructive to say about them). I do bash the xbox hardware, but not even in a sesne that its weak and should just die, but rather the policies at MS that made them go with hardware like that to begin with and I bash nintendo for how stubborn they have continually always been. But never the platforms directly or their games or features. But it seems some people make it there job hating on everything sony, almost as if it raped their kid sister, killed her and raped her again with a DS4.

Selective distortion, my friend.



 
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Most of the hate stems from hurt feelings. People believe their platform of choice (poc) is a better value than PS4, then sales don't show it. They feel their poc has better games, then find out they are in the minority for believing that. They feel PS4 doubles their poc sales on hype alone, and lay awake at night wondering why can't their poc compete. They find it strange that developers can make exclusives for the more powerful, easier to develop for and double install base sized PS4 with no cash incentives, but force their poc manufacturer to pay for the same thing and are fine with that. Imagine if your team was 10-72 for the season with Jerry Stackhouse (who in your clouded eyes is lebron james), going against the actual lebron james (who in your eyes is sam bowie) and his 80-2 team, the PS4, that would ruffle you a bit, and it seems that's what's happening with the PS4/Sony.



Thanks jlmurph!

I have noticed an increase in Sony bashing. The reaction again TLOUR was kind of ridiculous.

But I think it's normal, the console on top usually gets more negativity. When the Wii was massacring the competition, it got a lot of hate too.



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naruball said:
justgames7604 said:

i think it has alot to do with hate, if i were to buy a new console i would go and research a bit. And when you do you just see a whole ton of hate like from the  sites and comment sections, xbox articles tend to have whay more comments then ps4 articles and more ps4 fans in them. If i were to see that i wouldnt want to be part of a community where you are constantly hated on and people activley trying to make you feel bad about your purchase all the time (even on these forums). hate and negativity do affect the brand, thats all im saying.

I dont hate any console but i can see which fan base is more rabid than the others. Xbox fans especially has been shutdown and everything good that ever happens to them is met with intense hate, where like 4-5 threads are opened at once expressing hate all at once. (like the other day i saw a thread full of hate, especially in the OP where the hate was directed at xbox fans getting exclusive figurines or a freaking cloth map with their purchase of witcher 3, what the hell..). Xbox fans have basically no presence and even in neogaf only post in 2-3 threads (SONYGAF confirmed xD) and on this site they barely post outside of xbox nation because it is unsafe to post anywhere else.

I'm not sure I'm following. Are you saying, like others here on this thread, that the console that is the most successful gets hate because it's so successful? Because then you focus on xb1 and how much hate it gets. Are you saying, instead, that the most successful console has the most fans who do most of the hating? Because that would be a different point than the one I was arguing against.

hmm i read 1 word in your original message wrong (:

sorry for the confusion.



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Please... this site have more then anything been overrun by loud Sony "fanboys" with accounts not even a year old history.



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Naum said:
Please... this site have more then anything been overrun by loud Sony "fanboys" with accounts not even a year old history.


And one of them comes back every now and then like a preacher from N4G



Raziel123 said:
It's not new, the most successful console always gets hate


Good to know the critisizm for Wii and 3DS was just blind hate as well then.



Smear-Gel said:
Raziel123 said:
It's not new, the most successful console always gets hate


Good to know the critisizm for Wii and 3DS was just blind hate as well then.

We always knew that.

Remember the ridiculous and pointless arguments about how Wii didn't win last gen?

But gmaes! blah blah blah

Just hate. Plain and simple hate.



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PS4 deserves all this hate because it's the new mainstream thing.

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