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Sardauk said:
perpride said:
You don't hear Wii fanboyism cause they are 10 million units ahead of second place. PlayStation fanboys were pretty quiet when they were 100 million units ahead too :).

To me, there seems to be equal fanboyism coming from each side - not counting Nintendo fanboys.

 

So fanboyism is the consequence of feeling inferior or neglected ? It is oppositely proportional to the volume of your community and its weight then ?

 

No because one can feel inferior about all sorts of things, not just sales.

 

Wiifanboys are in many ways like the PS2 fanboys. Both are/were in huge denial about the capabilities of their system (many a PS2 fanboy actually claimed the PS2 had the best graphics last gen, and every wii fanboy claims that either the graphics are just a little worse, or they just don't matter). And both use obscene sales as a fallback position.

 

Wii fans further tend to have a bit of an inferiority complex about the lack of respect the unit gets from hardcore gamers, reviewers, and some companies.

 



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Liar said:
the wii has the weakest library. ps2 ports, shovelware and same old ips. 360 rocks!

 

Yes Mario Kart Wii,  Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy,  and Metroid Prime 3:Corruption are all horrible games. They're old IPs too.  Wow!!!  Maybe you're right .   It has crappy ports like Okami and Resident Evil 4 also.  It also has unplayable 3rd party showings like No More Heroes, Boom Blox, and Zack and Wiki (all old IPs right?)  You are right.  I'm selling my Wii today and getting a 360.  How could have I ever been this stupid? 



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regardless of feeling inferior or superior or whatever, there will always be fanboys for all three systems.

i think the one group of fanboys that may be growing, as you correctly assumed, is the ps3 fanboys. but you gotta give them credit, at least when they subsist in impartiality, for backing a system that is really seated on the launchpad right now poised to overtake the 360 when everyone from the start said ps3 would fail.
Look at how the red sox have such a rabid fanbase, previously a group of underdog mishmash with a bite and claw attitude for winning.



amp316 said:
Liar said:
the wii has the weakest library. ps2 ports, shovelware and same old ips. 360 rocks!

 

Yes Mario Kart Wii,  Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy,  and Metroid Prime 3:Corruption are all horrible games. They're old IPs too.  Wow!!!  Maybe you're right .   It has crappy ports like Okami and Resident Evil 4 also.  It also has unplayable 3rd party showings like No More Heroes, Boom Blox, and Zack and Wiki (all old IPs right?)  You are right.  I'm selling my Wii today and getting a 360.  How could have I ever been this stupid?

Oh damn. You just listed the whole quality Wii library save for ToS 2.

 



First, I skipped all after the OP, as I knew it was going to be a discussion I'm not interested in.

Still, I believe the situation is a bit different.

 

Ps3 owners haven't become a lot more annoying (I refuse to use the word fanboy), but rather that the amount of them has increased. http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=41845

Today, I believe there are more Ps3 owners than Wii owners on VGChartz (not by a lot though). X360 comes in a distant third.

But, the case is that a lot more Wii owners have awesome replies (ala, TWRoO, noname2200 and. Rol ), that don't show any bias (or little in some cases), but still prove others wrong.

There are also a few X360 people who are awesome, but there are near none for Ps3.

This isn't to say that Ps3 owners are less intelligent than the others, but that there is a lack of top notch posters that favour the Ps3. Add that with more Ps3 owners who have no clue, and they appear to be the most "fanboyish".



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

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amp316 said:
Liar said:
the wii has the weakest library. ps2 ports, shovelware and same old ips. 360 rocks!

 

Yes Mario Kart Wii,  Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy,  and Metroid Prime 3:Corruption are all horrible games. They're old IPs too.  Wow!!!  Maybe you're right .   It has crappy ports like Okami and Resident Evil 4 also.  It also has unplayable 3rd party showings like No More Heroes, Boom Blox, and Zack and Wiki (all old IPs right?)  You are right.  I'm selling my Wii today and getting a 360.  How could have I ever been this stupid? 

not to offend the wii and it's capabilities, those games are the polar bears of the video game world.

1 in 100 and less by the day

not that ps3 is any better,

but i do agree that 360 has an amazing library, even though i have one, i still kinda deny it because of my intense voracity towards MS. just like the pres. race, i would pick sony, the lesser of two evils (when it comes to corporations.)

 



Xen said:
amp316 said:
Liar said:
the wii has the weakest library. ps2 ports, shovelware and same old ips. 360 rocks!

 

Yes Mario Kart Wii,  Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy,  and Metroid Prime 3:Corruption are all horrible games. They're old IPs too.  Wow!!!  Maybe you're right .   It has crappy ports like Okami and Resident Evil 4 also.  It also has unplayable 3rd party showings like No More Heroes, Boom Blox, and Zack and Wiki (all old IPs right?)  You are right.  I'm selling my Wii today and getting a 360.  How could have I ever been this stupid?

Oh damn. You just listed the whole quality Wii library save for ToS 2.

 

 

No way. There's other good games like... Oh my God!!! Everyone's right but me!!! 



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amp316 said:
Liar said:
the wii has the weakest library. ps2 ports, shovelware and same old ips. 360 rocks!

 

Yes Mario Kart Wii,  Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy,  and Metroid Prime 3:Corruption are all horrible games. They're old IPs too.  Wow!!!  Maybe you're right .   It has crappy ports like Okami and Resident Evil 4 also.  It also has unplayable 3rd party showings like No More Heroes, Boom Blox, and Zack and Wiki (all old IPs right?)  You are right.  I'm selling my Wii today and getting a 360.  How could have I ever been this stupid? 

Didn't we see iterations of these games last gen....and the gen before that?

When the Wii got new IPs....they flopped hard. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The reuse of their typical first party isn't what's making it sell, otherwise the GCN and the 64 would have DOMINATED the competition.

 



Xen said:
Sardauk said:
CAL4M1TY said:
starcraft said:
You were doing so well until no Wii Fanboyism.

I feel the same way.

Wii fanboys exist, they just don't have to say anything about the pro's of their console because it's winning.

It's like in the PS2-Xbox-Gamecube era, PS2 fanboys were the least proactive because they were winning, doesn't mean they don't exist.

 

 

Yes it is indeed a different style 

I still don't see the usual PS3 Fanboys counter-attacking... afraid of facing the Wii legion ? The 360 is an easier target apparently ...

Afraid of facing the Wii legion? I laugh at them as they have NOTHING to be proud of really. The only thing the Wii does well is sell. And who benefits and has bragging rights because of it? Nintendo. Who will continue on the same path later on? Nintendo.

PS3 fanboys can be proud as their system is ganing a fantastic library and is gaining a strong momentum.

360 fanboys can be proud of having a terrific online community, and a kickass+diverse library.

My advice to Wii fanboys is to be quiet and not make a joke out of themselves... At least not until the Wii has a decent library. Not the 90% shovelware library it has now.

 

I agree about the Wii part. I've played most of these critically aclaimed games, and only ended up liking 4 games: Resident Evil 4, SSBB, Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Kart. Resident Evil is a PS2 port, SSBB and Mario Kart's predecessors are way better. Super Mario Galaxy was golden though. The rest of them, I didn't like. PS360 is where my gaming needs is at :D



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i really doubt that there are more ps3 owners here than anything else, in fact i would say that ps3 is near to last of what people on vgchartz owns.