Read the second quote, and tell me that wouldn't be traumatizing.

I never said that the Playstation 3 is subjectively better, when I say upgrading. When I say that someone is upgrading to HD, they are upgrading their know-how of gaming and are entering a new realm. It is kind of like playing music; I play guitar and sing, so I know about progressing and wanting increase the quality of my sound. I want to play harder songs and learn newer styles. I never forget where I came from, but I upgrade to be current...and most importantly, because the challenge keeps me on my toes. Nintendo are the masters of pulling non-gamers into gaming...like they did with me when I was four years old. I was a dedicated Nintendo owner, until I bought the Playstation, which basically sucked up all the good games. I still had the 64, but as I grew up Playstation provided the more mature titles that I wanted to play. In the Playstation era, I was in middle school, so yeah. Playstation 2 was highschool, and the beginning of the next gen was college, so there you have it. It was a long process, in which I grew into the difficulty and diversity of games. Nintendo may be making all the money, but they create start-up systems. They are the innovators and the gate keepers for the console gaming industry. Microsft and Sony are the scavengers, who pick up the pieces. I gladly went for the scavengers, because as I grew as a gamer, they provided. Until Nintendo caters to me, I have no use for it. This is also a reason some of my friends who only had Wii's upgraded to 360's. They loved the party games, but got bored after a while, because of the lack of cool games coming out. Well E3 has shown some great games, but they seem to be in a 360 trance right now. My friends who own the PS3 are few, so I am alone there. I have only one friend who solely owns the Wii, and he is trying to kill off playing videogames so he can focus on "more important things", as he puts it. Technically the Wii exists so he can play with his girl and stay away from hardcore gaming, but everytime he comes to hang with us, he gets tempted to buy an HD system (which he can more than afford). He is a huge fan of team ICO games.

First of all, PS360 games aren't all one button kill games. This is why there are sixteen to eighteen buttons on the controller. They are there so you can inflict a maximum amount of carnage in action games, make realistic plays in sports games and in shooters to be able to control your weaponry and not be stationary in the process. I am not a graphics over substance person, so don't write me off as one. There are plenty of quality games on both HD systems, that do have great graphics, but are quality games. In fact at this point, there are too many. You may not feel that way, but I respect that. Nintendo does offer a certain something, to certain people.

Fun fact:  A year ago a thread like this would have been derailed with adorable kitten pictures or otherwise put out of its misery before page 2.