Well, talking about gaming with people who disagree with you, sucks.

Game sales are awesome to talk about because there is no opinion involved.

Nintendo winning is also a big part of it, lol.

I just love when the PS360 fanboys are so adamant about how superior their consoles are, and the rest of the world is so adamant about how they are not.

Also, it helps with my cognitive dissonance over spending craploads of cheese on a platform. The only console this gen that I haven't had a little regret about is the DS, and I haven't played that badboy since FFIV. 360 is also great, ect, but I don't feel the way about any of the current gen home consoles that I did about my PS2, which was it was the only must own console of that generation. 360 comes close, DS matches.

Anyway, yes, because I hate fanboys(I have been a fanboy on every side of the book, and I hate what I once was), and facts and sales always own fanboys eventually. Always.

Enlightened adults just love to talk about numbers anyway, lol. I do, at least. I'd talk about mattress sales, television sales, whatever you got. I love branded salesmenship. I've had a love/hate relationship with them since Statistics.

Also, I'm one of those neo manchildren the flamebaiting chicks always love to write about in magazines, and when it comes to intellect, manchild > childchild anyday. Yeah, son! That's how I roll. So much of my dominance comes from the year in which I was born. My existance is a boon to modern traditionalist femanism.

This is not a parody.

I really like that part of what you said! I've always thought that was a bad thing but they way you put it sounds like its a good thing. On a universal scale its good. But on a smaller scale the company who comes up with the ideas needs to keep coming up with new ones so they stay ahead, cos its such a shame when a company puts so much time and effort into something to have taken away from them next generation :(

My thoughts to add to this: Its kinda like a literal war. there is a limited number of consoles that will be soled each generation and each company is fighting for their share of the market. I love real time stratergy games (especially the Age Of Empires series) and I see a reflection of gaming stratergy in the companies market stratergies. Most gamers are drawn to stratergy gaming weather its war tactics or puzzles ect, it would be hard to think of a game without thinking of some sort of stratergy that goes with it. So as we are all by nature gamers who enjoy stratergy and most of all WINNING, its only natural for us to be drawn to the stratergy and winning of the bigger picture.

We also like to critique stratergies and strive to find the ultimate stratergy that will make us the supreme player of a certian game (well hard core players/ serious gamers) and so in terms of a real time stratergy game, we look at sonys stratergy of building big powerful units that cost alot of resources and we mock them for their confidence in a specialised seige military. "over specialise and you breed in weakness" (motoko kusanagi, GITS) They thought their seige weapons would reign fire all over the competition.

Microsoft we mock for making units with low hit points and only average attack, but nintendo we praize for making units that counter Sonys seige weapons and defeat microsfts average units with their quick speed and accuracy.

Also Micrsofts rushing technique left them high and dry with little omph later on in the economic stages of the game but nintendos balanced approach to economy and military allowed them to produce strong cheap units that counter the weaknesses of the other players.

Early on nintendo and sony took their time to get their stuff together and defended against Microsofts rush but ultimatly Sony was rushed into a quick advancement with under improved seige weapons. (Microsofts rush also left them with under improved units and now their improvements arnt making much difference) Now that nintendo has settled and spread its self out into the surrounding land scape they are bringing out their heavier guns (awesome first party games) with the suport of their cheaper counter units (the wii console) for a great defence.

I for one cant wait to see whats next but just like in real time stratergies if you screw up in the biginning its hard to bring it back around especially when your civilisation has weaknesses to the winning civ

lol I like that

I've seen the situation as a Zerg (Wii) v Terran (X360) v Protos (PS3) myself, but I think I like your analogy better. especially seeing as Starcraft 2 doesn't seem to be coming to any of these consoles as yet

ahahah yeah, In AOE III talk:

I see Microsoft as rushing with hussars straight into a defence of Nintendos pikemen as nintendo ships in some hard core resources allowing them to advance through to the 4th age in like 15 minutes while holding the fort down with countering and then busting out with some artillery to absolutly mow down anything the microsft sends out. Nintendo can now send in infantry to defend their artillery while their artillary does the heavy work of total desimation! lol Sony on the other hand, Got rushed into advancing quickly (or using to many resorces on a stronger military to defend) and as their vilagers got killed by their bad defence they no longer have the economic strength to fully upgrade their cavalry and seige into a usable force.

mayb coz everyone here actually yet to own a console. those who owns either one of 3 are busy playing n never login to vgchartz haha

We care so much on system sales because we like to gloat whenever our favorite system has a big weekly lead over some other system. We really enjoy the misery of others. We are smarter than everyone else because we can choose the best-selling systems.

This is a joke of course. But I think some people might be like this, unfortunately.