I tried to search this forum for a link to this article on here, but didn't find it referenced in a forum:

http://www.destructoid.com/fanboyism-should-be-called-religous-fandamentalism-158334.phtml

This article compares fanboys to religions fundamentalism, and suggests calling fanboys fandamentalists.  Commonalities the article sees between the two:

They pass off mere beliefs and theories as facts:

They have a creepy love fetish for something that doesn't show love back:

They respond to criticism with nothing but attacks:

They have a persecution complex:

They impose their will on other people:

They follow their leaders without question:

They hate other religious extremists:

They make normal people look bad:

Anyone here agree or disagree?

Haha pretty interesting comparison but I think it works quite well. Haha but it is not a hard comparison to make as both suffer from the same problem that cause this problem... they believe their reality to be true and unfortunately they enabled by those who also agree with them. Guess you could call it being blinded by passion and arrogance.

At least with the fanboys though they aren't going out and protesting soldier's funerals. That just always gets me mad when I hear about people doing that. But I definitely agree with the last sentiment... they all give the rest of us a bad name.

Actually its my belief that:

PS3 fanboys are truely PS3 supremacists because all they want is for the PS3 to dominate something.

Wii fanboys are truely Wii fanatics because they worship a whole range of dieties from Miyamoto to Malstrom.

Xbox 360 fanboys are truely fundamentalists because its their way or the highway oh and they thing they own the highway too.

i am agnotic.

destroying your theory.

i agree, perfectly discribes a fanboy

I totally agree and hereby conclude that I am a fanboy hiding in the closet xD

Good read. I'm not a fandamentalist...yet.

I agree.

ROFL, I normally don't agree with Squilli but this time I just have to bow to this, it's genius!

Nice analogy - a friend of mine recently made the shift from 360 to PS3 (mainly for the wrong reasons as his system was bricked by MS). He said he felt like betraying his beliefs and compared it to shifting in voting in politics (for americans from republican to democrat).

:)

Yes, fanatical belief is not limited to religion. Many people are very fanatical in a handful of beliefs. It's just unfortunate when they tend to cross paths like consoles. Then it comes to Console Religious wars :P