Let's face it. Bias exists more in gaming than probably any other form of entertainment sans sports. People don't just buy a console. They invest their very being into the brand that they purchase. It's akin to politics and/or religion whereby lines are blurred between fact and fiction. Most can't even see the error of their ways, let alone correct them.

Personally, I find this troubling. So I've decided that we should have a thread where people like this can review themselves, so to speak, and see just how biased or unbiased they really are. 

It's simple. What I want you to do is list the big three and then under each one, provide a list of atleast 3 pros and cons. I also want you to abstain from sarcasim like say "it probably won't fly away and muder little kittens". That is not a pro or a con, that is just a waste of time.

So what do you say? I'll go first.

Nintendo pros

1.) Great first party support.

2.) Quality hardware that does not break down quickly.

3.) Games that don't ship broken or need day one patches.  

Nintendo cons

1.) Horrible third party support.

2.) Hardware that is usually years and years behind tech wise.

3.) Doesn't offer much in the way of mature titles like GTA.

Sony pros

1.) Great software diversity. There is always a game for someone on a Playstation.

2.) Free games through Playstation Plus.

3.) Amazing Japanese developer support.

Sony cons

1.) PSN is very undependable, goes down too often and stays down too long.

2.) UI updates are few and far between (game suspentions anybody?!?!).

3.) Refuses to allow people to buy retro PS1/PS2/PS3 games (on PS4), offering them via stream instead.

Microsoft pros

1.) Xbox Live. The gap has closed immensely, but there is still a gap when it comes to reliability.

2.) Has the best selection of FPS. There is a FPS for all types of gamers (Gears, Halo, Titanfall or COD).

3.) Has the best sense of broad entertainment with apps like the NFL and Twitch.

Microsoft cons

1.) First party software is not as diverse as Sony's. 

2.) The Xbox One takes FAR too long to install games.

3.) The UI of the Xbox One is a huge step down from the 360 and is confusing/unintuitive to learn.

I'll give this a go tonight.

Its lonely and difficult being the least biased mod on the site.

In mod chat they call me "Truthbringer: Arbiter of Honest Justice."

I love Sony and Nintendo but just can't find a reason to like X1 over a couple great (or great looking) games like Sunset and Quantum. I notice no difference in network and I'm not into FPS. Also PS4 has NFL and Twitch and basically every other app. Now they'll even have spotify. Never got where this mentality that Xbox has better apps comes from. Sony has a nice voice recognition camera for $110 cheaper. Unless you like crazy hand gestures it's pretty much just as responsive to my voice. And yes I've played on both. I have a friend with Xbox 360 and 1 and while I like certain games and have beaten all the main Halos MS always has kind of a cookie cutter approach to games. I feel like they're always checking boxes and afraid to try much new.

I'm not completely biased though as I'll admit Sony has some annoying outages for those that constantly need it and the Plus games should be available even if your sub expires.  Nintendo needs third party and more diversity and new IP that actually look fun.  MS is great for co-op too which is something Sony lacks.  They need a Gears like co-op experience as that's the part of that game I'm most envious of when playing on a 360.

lol i'm biased towards nintendo and it would take a miracle for me to buy anything from another company. I'll have to take a look at the pros and cons later but right now yes, I'm very biased.

I have a bias against people who are biased.

Nintendo:
+Largest and most diverse first party
+Unique and specialized hardware
+Free online is still supported
-Region locking is a piece of shit
-Virtually no 3rd party support
-Can be very outdated in terms of features (both hardware & software)

Sony:
+Supports their consoles for the longest time each gen
+Loads of 3rd party support, namely Japanese games
+Nathan Drake's ass
-PSN is very unstable, even now
-Drift towards trends too often (PS Move...really?)
-Abandoned backwards compatibility

Microsoft:
+Essentially birthed online gaming as a standard
+Best platform for FPS
+Willing to spend any amount of cash for an exclusive
-Very few first party IPs
-Tries too hard to make video games something other than video games
-Typically has the largest piece of hardware

I tried.

I am obviously biased towards Nintendo. I love their games and the things they do with their systems. It really comes down to that.

Sony I don`t dislike nor like. They do have a big variety of games and I liked the games they had in the PS2/3 era, but I never thought much of them. They had a kind of arrogance that I didn`t like, so it kind of turns me away.

XBox I don`t think of much either. It seems like the weird brand MS added in just for the sake of profit. They made Xbox Live and introduced trophies in games, but I don`t see much of a point to be in the gaming industry. I just see them doing more harmful things than helpful.

At the end of it all, it comes down to games for me, and in order, it goes from Nintendo, Sony, and Xbox. So yeah, that`s my bias.

I'm biased when it comes to what console I want to sell best, because being best selling means (usually) have the best over all game content.

When it comes to crunching numbers, analysing sales and predicting the future I attempt to be completely unbiased. There is no point, and nothing to be gained, by putting biased attitudes into reading the data and coming out with foolish conclusions, that almost always end up being proven wrong, merely because that's what your heart desires. I may feel like I'm swallowing a dead rat when I predict sales that do not support my bias towards wanting the console I own to win. But I will swallow that dead rat because it is better to be proven right and have to digest a dead rat, than to be proven wrong and to have to eat crow. Doesn't mean I won't be wrong in my predictions as often as I'm right. But at least I can point to objective information that pointed to my reading of the market being reasonable at the time. Like for instance predicting PS4 would be at ~16.5M LTD at the end of 2014. There was very good historical evidence to suggest that was a likely level of sales at the time I made that projection (August I think). That PS4 beat that by nearly 2 million is still hard to figure. But there were people who merely because of irrational bias were thinking far less than 16.5 million. They had no rationale or historical evidence for their projection, just a desire that PS4 not sell as much as that. Similarly with the 20 million projections, those were all fans who just wanted to see PS4 achieve Wii-like sales. Kudos to the ambitious, but not crazy, fans who said 18-19 million.

I do like reading other people's sales predictions that are pulled out of biased arses though.

Nintendo pros

1.) Great first party support.

2.) Perfect ergonomic gamepads

3.) completly different to pc games.



Nintendo cons


1.) Horrible third party support.

2.) They never use the ips i like...

3.) its hard to get some of the games that are not so family friendly.



Sony pros



1.) So many small games

2.) JRPGs

3.) Blueray


Sony cons



1.) paying for meeeh online

2.) a lot of bad games, from 3rd partys, but from sony too, hard to find the good ones

3.) the good damn gamepad,its bad. realy BAD


Microsoft pros



1.) I like the design

2.) ehm... well skype?

3.) they stopped makeing more bad rare games?


Microsoft cons



1.) its just a console for meh fps.

2.) playing kinect games is like playing with the fuckn powerglove

3.)they killed rare...

Haha. Nate's ass is definitely a plus.