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Slimebeast on 12 September 2016

I hate the console wars, they take away focus from games and important issues in the gaming industry.

While games are getting increasingly dumbed down and companies treating us like little kids we're busy fighting with others who share the same freaking hobby.



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method114 on 12 September 2016

I had a 360 last gen and loved it. Loved my PS4 this gen, and now I love my gaming PC. Watching people argue about this stuff is very silly. The only thing that annoys me is for some reason I have such a hard time playing more than one system. I have a PS4 and PC but I just have no interest in playing games on my PS4. I don't know what it is. Even games I really wanted (FFXV, Horizon) I'm kind of on the fence about now and not sure I'll get them. No idea why I'm like that.



Hynad on 13 September 2016
CGI-Quality said:
Shadow1980 said:

Dude, today's console wars are playful skirmishes compared to the 16-bit Wars of the 90s. It was so brutal that the console makers themselves got in on it, with all sorts of hip edgy 90s-style attack ads, most of them from Sega. Sure, the console makers still sometimes make little jabs towards each other, but they also show a lot of respect sometimes as well. But in the 16-bit days this is what we got:

-vids

Bingo. Thought I was the only one that remembered how brutal that era was. The commercial showing Game Gear making fun of the GameBoy is the one that did it for me. Besides The Kevin Butler commercials, you hardly saw/see that between Microsoft and Sony. The 16-bit era is unmatched for console wars.

The war between companies was worse back then. Not the war between fanboys.



Hynad on 13 September 2016
Shadow1980 said:
CGI-Quality said:

Yep, the internet wars hardly, if ever, translate into real fights and such. Where as, back then, everything was generally in person, and the spats kids (and teens) got in were more plentiful. The gaming companies just made it easier to keep those rivalries alive, which is why I say it worse back then.

I think I was mercifully spared from witnessing in-person arguments over console wars. I knew some people who had a Genesis, and a lot who had an SNES, but unless I just wasn't paying attention or because I simply didn't have a side to take since I had both systems (I did prefer the SNES, but the Genesis was great, too), I never noticed any conflict over consoles.

This is exactly what I say. It simply wasn't as bad as CGI pretend it to be.



Hynad on 13 September 2016
CGI-Quality said:
Hynad said:

This is exactly what I say. It simply wasn't as bad as CGI pretend it to be.

Hmmm...there's nothing to pretend about here, Hynad (and you need to stop with the digs, as that hasn't been done towards you and I've already let it slide once). 

Digs? Lol. That may have been poorly phrased, but you really need to stop acting all "I have the power to silence you when people say things that don't please me personally", it reflects poorly on you.

I'll refrain from saying exactly what I think right now.



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Hynad on 13 September 2016
CGI-Quality said:
Hynad said:

Digs? Lol. That may have been poorly phrased, but you really need to stop acting all "I have the power to silence you when people say things that don't please me personally", it reflects poorly on you.

I'll refrain from saying exactly what I think right now.

At no point was there a "threat to silence you", so you can move away from that talk.

Next, I have an issue with you needing to make things personal (and the bold/underline helps aid that point). I'm just advising you to quit before things get uglier. You can have a debate without making it about the poster.

Yeah, I really have an issue with you personnaly for thinking it was worse back then. -____-



Jazz2K on 13 September 2016

When I was a kid console wars wasn't as strong as it is now. People played less and even if someone preferred the SNES they wouldn't refrain from playing on Sega Genesis. I remember even at school people were more than happy to be able to play video games than getting in deep wars about which is better or not. Also gamers didn't feel as entitled back then as they are today so discussions were more about how to beat this or this game than how my needs were not met because that company made that design choice.



Jazz2K on 13 September 2016
CGI-Quality said:
Jazz2K said:
When I was a kid console wars wasn't as strong as it is now. People played less and even if someone preferred the SNES they wouldn't refrain from playing on Sega Genesis. I remember even at school people were more than happy to be able to play video games than getting in deep wars about which is better or not. Also gamers didn't feel as entitled back then as they are today so discussions were more about how to beat this or this game than how my needs were not met because that company made that design choice.

I hear this from some people. That it wasn't as bad for them. Perhaps City/Country/Neighborhood/State plays a role in the differing views. Because, I promise you, I remember things getting pretty bad, at times. And, as we see above, the gaming companies played right into that. I actually blame them for the "creation" (if you will) of what are known as The Console Wars.

Consider that Internet is playing a huge role in making this console war something unavoidable. Back then if your friends were open you only had them to play with and you were encouraged to be open too. Tv adds added fuel yes but I believe people played less back then that people are playing today mainly because it was more expensive than it is today and you had no demos so the only news you had about gaming was each months through a magazine. 

Now you can have no friends at all and still play with others, you go online and read constant hate here and there and you find speeches that reflect that hate you have then anonymously you can enter this war and spout any BS you want. Bloggers do it, Vloggers do it, it's on forums and social media. It's every where.