To me, it's like watching a competition between sports teams. Both sides have their fans that will follow them through thick and thin. Games can have an emotional impact on a person, and the console they are playing on, delivered that experience to them. I think that's where brand loyalty comes from, and thus, the attachment to a hunk of plastic.

It's really all about the experiences that they have, and sometimes, they believe these amazing experiences are only available on the platform they chose. And in some cases, that's true. But everyone has different tastes and the experience is always going to be different for everyone. So the reason we see these console wars, and it's just people defending/promoting their platform of choice, because it's what they love. And sometimes, when love is in the mix, people can react irrationally and compulsively when the thing they are passionate about is under attack in some way.

It is actually very simple: brand loyalty.

You know how a Sony Xperia or Samsung Galaxy might be better than the iPhone, but they won't change their tastes? That's it.

I have played PSone, PS2, PS3 so my next move is PS4. When you talk about brands, there are other things beside specs and games, but a personality. You see, Xbox One started trying to kill indies, force online 24h, sports and tv all the time, selling Kinect like it's an awesome thing when we couldn't care less... There is no way I can trust Microsoft because that is reeeeeally far from videogames. They burned themselves for me so I have no interest.

The Wii U would share the same library also, if you know, people actually wanted it.  I mean, was it so long ago that Nintendo fans were complaining about lack of 3rd party support?  And 3rd parties were pulling back because it just doesn't make fiscal sense to produce content on hardware so far behind the times, and so few are actually buying into?

And no, I'm not making your point, there are clear differences between Sony and Microsoft's content.  And nobody needs you to agree to see that (Just because you don't see it, or won't acknowledge it, doesn't mean it's not true).

It's not a console war. It's a brand war.

That's really it.

well, look.. if it were like, japanese people are all pro sony, and americans were all pro microsoft, with some exceptions, then i would understand the sports teams analogy. but as it stands, i dont see where this diehard fandom about either console comes from when they offer the same exact thing.

your first paragraph is a different argument that im not really interested in getting into because i already know youre going to disagree no matter what i say because you have already positioned yourself in a way that isnt going to allow you to retract any previous statements that you have already made. 

and yes, you did make my point. just because you refuse to actually think about what i said doesnt mean im wrong about what i said. if you actually want to refute what i said, then reply with evidence of some kind about how i was wrong in how i perceived what you did.

"for fucks sake, look at the controllers"

the controllers are not the same the dualshock 4 has a touchpad for example while the xbox has rumble triggers

"how the games for each console are meant to be played"

wii u games for the most part do not play differently mario kart, smash, super mario etc all play pretty mush the same with the exception that you can play offscreen... 

" they literally have the same library"

i currently have transister, infamous and tlou since when could i play any of those xbox?

"they literally have the same library. your argument about smash and mario kart is completely nonsensical"

 lol the irony here amazes me

human stupidity 

People are stupid.

Its the general answer for most things wrong with our world

Why is there war in country X?
Why is product X so overpriced?
Why does device X die for no reason (planned obscolescence)
Why is coke/fanta/Pepsi etc not clear but has food coloring that results in yellow teeth?

General answer for all of this. People are stupud.

Yeah, i don't really see how them sharing a lot of games makes them the identical... The majority of their libraries might be the same, but that's a virtue of having so much 3rd party support, not the result of a lack of their own present and future exclusive content.

On top of that, i personally expect them to both end the generation with more exclusive content than the WiiU (for various reason). That would add an interesting dynamic to this debate :p