^.^ Console wars are lot's of fun and no one gets really hurt. Except butthurt, but that makes everyone else laugh, so is a positive in the grand scheme of things.

console wars are for silly nilly people

I live and breathe console sales wars. The bragging rights that goes with your favourite console system winning the generation is priceless. Console sales war is like following a sports team, political party, religion, a soft drink, sporting brand, etc,

Funny you say that while being flagrantly guilty of it. =)

Amen to that.

It's ok. It's just that consoles are used by many children and teenagers who think they know it all better and are somehow superior to all other humans and stuff. Once they get older, they'll get behind that this stuff is ridiculous and stop themselves. At least from my experience, I've encountered very very few folks over 30 who keep debating about this kind of stuff. Kids below 20 though talk all the time about how one thing is the second coming of christ and another thing, which is basically the exact same thing just with another brand name, is the shittiest product of all time for some reason. It's not just consoles, also smartphones, those Apple vs. Samsung wars are real! Oh, and the glorious PC Master Race is facing a serious civil war with all that nVidia vs. AMD stuff.

Anyway, most people get somewhat smarter between 20 and 30. Some earlier, some a little later. It's really not a huge problem, it's child's play. It just happens that children are very loud, especially on the internet. Just don't let it get to you. It's also funny sometimes. Like, back when the Master Chief Collection was announced, someone said "Finally I can play Halo 1 on my Xbox 1!". I laughed pretty hard at that. Just don't take it seriously and everything's fine.

I thought positive driving force more in a business sense. Without fanboys there would be no violent outcries over certain features that force the companies to act and improve their platform. The hilarious irony is of course that the improvement changes are driven mostly from the opposite side of fanboys while the company's own fanboys are usually defending the flaws and suppress change.

But yeah, in the end it's all a great big laugh.

At least we argued about games, not like now where peopel argue about TFlops and resolutions.

OT: Yes, console wars, like most wars, are ridiculous.

It really isn't even that bad nowadays to be honest.

Anyways my fondest memories are arguing with my friends about which console was better. It's a fun topic to discuss and time consuming especially when you're bored or have nothing to do. That didn't stop me from going to his house and playing on his Xbox 360 though. Honestly the worst thing nowadays is that so many people have moved on to PC ( atleast in my Social circle ) and they tend to consider themselves superior to consoles. Only friend I have who still actively games on consoles is a Nintendo fan and it's not really fun to discuss PS4 vs WII U tbh.

It took you a while to realise that, eh?