Yeah, people can get attached to almost anything, but they usually don't go so far as to attack anyone who doesn't have the same opinion.  I like my shoes, but I would never verbally lash out at someone that liked Nike over Skechers.  It's the part where aggression meets attachment that makes me wonder how that occurs.  What is it about video games that makes them susceptible to this?  I can sorta understand when people get riled up about certain things (politics, law, religion) because these things are important.  But video games are just that:  GAMES.  They are not gonna change the world.  It's like arguing over Monopoly and Scrabble.

This is nothing new. It's the very basis of nationalism. That guy over there who was born in the same arbitrarily defined area of a landmass as me did something good, so I should be proud of it.

When you get down to it, why should you be proud of anything that anybody has done?

Analysing every aspect of human behaviour is ridiculous, because there's no real "point" to anything that anybody does. Save somebody's life? They'll still be dead in 70 years. 70 years out of the billions which the universe has existed.

No, i hate waffles.

I agree that nationalism is ridiculous.  It can be downright dangerous when it's manipulated by the powers that be.  Will there have to be an alien attack from space before humans feel the desire to come together as ONE SPECIES rather than fight over real estate?  I guess there always has to be a villain in some regard.  Maybe that's the bigger question.  Why does there always have to be a villain?  One winner, one loser.

The rest of your statement seems exceedingly grim though.  Sure, in the scheme of the fate of the universe, one human isn't making any stellar changes.  But in the context of being a social being (the "we're all stuck here together" syndrome) even small things we do everyday matter.  People can choose to do things that re-enforce positive emotions or betray them.  Spreading positive notions makes a huge difference as opposed to all the "Negative Nancies" out there. 

If it makes you feel better I got to witness some Greek kid (think his name was Spiro or something) get his nose broken by a keyboard at an internet cafe by 2 dudes ( only seen them there a couple of times though). I'd say roughly 2 years ago if that. Reason? He was kinda talkin a little smack about how the Wii was better than 360 and PS3 and whatnot. It seemed like a regular BS argument so I payed little attention as I just saw it funny (I was either playing BF2 or CSS). Things did get heated as soon as he said RE4 on the Wii destroys all the piece of s...... halo games ever created. You could guess what followed and I guess they were diehard Xbox brand fans (xbox and xbox 360). Although despite this "minor" incident I am well aware that it is not representative of that population of gamers, but it goes to show that some people tend to take things a little too seriously.

This is where you fail to see the beauty of being a human being and are an absolute pessimist. No I am not talking about religion or any ideology outside of what we can all see. In that mere fraction of time that is 70 measly years humans, cry, laugh, smile, love, hate, suffer, work, play, hope, dream among sooooo many other things.....all in that fraction of time. Something most of our solar system never gets to experience and perhaps a good portion of this thing we call a universe. Our existence is much more precious than you yourself realize. Out of the billions of years in just a fraction of that time we accomplish so much by simply living that it's amazing. You have every right to be a pessimist but to view our small existence as nearly insignificant shows that you either have little grasp of what being a human is all about, or you see the human race (including yourself) as a doomed existence with little worth. Just think about that for a moment.

The difference is that with consoles you get an inferiority complex with people who cannot/will not buy more than one console and even then they still have an incentive to talk smack because the console networks don't interlink. This means that if the console you favour gets a lot more sales it will mean a better online multiplayer experience and you can have all your friends on the one console.