ive been on many many many many gaming forums and it has one constance gamers in general love the wii. and this is fromt he hardcore gamers not the xbox360/ps3 so called "hardcore" gamers. so yeah if this so called bias towards nintendo on these forums means only one thing like the days of the ps2 launch whatever is the most popular console gets more praise on forums then any other console

Exactly

Hmmz there were indeed a lot of ignorant, offensive and plain stupid PS3-fanboys here. I still remember 'Blue3', you can figure...

Bwa for the rest i think that the same old discussions still exist, but they are now better conducted. See at the forum toppics, the subject and approach are both given and some usefull info is given in the topic itself. That makes it easyer to read a conversation.

Yet i think that Wii and XBox owers can stand the PS3, but in the other direction it's fairly difficult. But if you see the long list of bad-PS3-news combined with the crap the Sony-PR spits out i can understand there is a bit of friction. Once christmas sales are over and once the Sony-PR is up to level things will settle down and we will all live happily ever after ;).

Don't feel so bad. I had to explain to my wife last night that a 40 year old female is not a typical gamer.

 My mother is in her mid 50s and she spends more time playing games than the 3 males in the family combined (well at least she used back when I was living at home). Admitively she isn't a console gamer anymore, not since my parents bought an HDTV 5 years back and the Atari 2600 was retired, but she definitely enjoys her pc games.

I think it's not so much a bias, just a numbers majority. When a majority of people like X, that's usually what gets talked about more often, or in a more positive light. While this isn't a bad thing, when you get idiots in each camp that will blindly spout numbers, or argue something completely illogical or even just spout out one line of shill for whatever fanboy camp they support, then you spark up these fights between camps.

Forums are a great place to find some good arguments and some good information, but like online gaming and the real world, you have to sort through a lot of crap before you get to the fun parts of it.

The real 'bias' comes out when people start posts. They do not post ideas or news as if it were just news, they will post things that support their view on the console battles, or something that doesn't and share their opinions of why X analyst or reviewer is wrong. And that's not really controlled by the site itself but the people using it.

The hate for Sony by Nintendo fans started back when Ken Kutaragi made it his mission to kill Nintendo (back when they brought the PS1 to market). Now that it looks like Nintendo might have the last laugh, it's fans have become a little cockier. When a company higher up makes it his mission to kill another company, obviously there will be some i'll will towards the company that this man works for. (This is just one of the reasons)

I happen to like what both companies have brought to the market, however it's been harder to be a Sony fan when everything you liked about them in the past has changed so drastically. Not to say that it's wrong of them to change their direction, it just seems that Sony's had too many internal fightings to concentrate on us!

I am certainly a Nintendo fan until I quit gaming. This site shows no bias but when a console is as successful as Wii is right now, you can expect there to be a few more fans than of thee other consoles. Chicago Bulls were extrememly popular back in the nineties, now, not even close. The winning side is always going to have the most supporters. I am one of the few that has taken to Nintendo since as far back as I can remember. Nothing is going to change that.

it was a bit biased probably still is.. but thats the users who are doing that not this site on purpose.. if i make a thread saying " Sony is readying fall lineup" and someone says theyve only sold 3 mil their lineup sucks thats trolling and thats biast and not needed.. sometimes i just wanna say dude get a life

I can definitely understand that.  It really sucks to hear the console you prefer constantly bashed.  But Nintendo fans had to put up with 10 years of 'Nintendo is teh kiddiez' and 'Mario suxerz'.  It's been nice for Nintendo to be back on top, but this has caused friction from Sony fans because they aren't top dog anymore.  Blame goes to both sides for inflaming the arguments, but personally, I think people like larry, Hus, washimul, blue3 and others like that certainly caused a lot of trouble.

I was planning on getting a PS3 before E3 2006 when I thought it would only be $400 (I thought that was expensive, but worth it).  When they announced it was $600, I took that as a 'Screw You' to the casual fans that made the PS2 a success.  My reason for wanting Sony to lose this generation is not because I hate them, or hate their games.  It's because I fear that if a $600 console can become the market leader, the next one will cost $1000.  Then I will never play games again.