Wednesday 18 September 2013
What is going on?? Why all the hate??
After 7-8 long years the reign of, the current generation of consoles is coming to an end and we have had our first glimpse of what will be ruling our spare time for the next 7-8 years.
This is a time for gamers to be excited, feverishly scouring the internet and magazine stands for any piece of news on their preferred system. Thinking long and hard about their day 1 purchases and what game will get to grace they disc slot or download list first.
But this time it seems, for many, it is actually a time to slag off the “competition”. Just going on any website forum or comments section is like walking into a school yard and seeing a bunch of kids bicker over whose new ball can bounce the highest.
The funny thing is half of the people comparing TFLOPs and MHZ have no idea what it all means and as long as their chosen console has a higher number it must mean it’ll be the new winner of this so called Console War. My question is, when did it stop being about the actual games and more about the bragging rights? Power is definitely not everything or we'd all be playing high end PCs and Nintendo would no longer exist (sorry Jez).
I have owned nearly every major console since the Atari 2600 and it is very rare that the power of a system made a game any more fun. I had both the SNES and the Mega Drive but preferred the less powerful Sega because it offered the games I liked (Streets of Rage and Revenge of Shinobi to name a few). The PS2 was weak compared to Xbox and Gamecube but outsold them both by a huge margin plus offered us great games such as GT3, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Grand Theft Auto 3: San Andreas.
I guess all I'm really getting at is gamers need to forget all this console war rubbish and just get on and enjoy the games. If you prefer what Sony has to offer, get a PS4. Same goes for Xbox One and Wii U. Just stop trolling the other systems and allow the true fans to get hyped.
We are all gamers at the end of the day and should be banding together to show everyone who writes off our hobby as childish that it is a legitimate form of entertainment on equal footing with Movies, TV and Music. If we continue to act like kids we will be treated as such.
Now in the words of the Nintendo of America COO and President, Reggie Fils-Aime, "Play the Game!!!"
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I think we are seeing stronger reactions from 'fanboys' of either system, the modern phenomenon known 'fanboy-ism', maybe can be better understood by drawing similarities to another 'ism', no not that 'ism', I am talking about 'patriotism'. Like patriots, fanboys have a blind passion for their chosen platform, they will be most vocal when under any kind of threat. They don't care about the greater good or what's best for everyone, all they care about is the ongoing success of their chosen platform or country. They will frustratingly ignore the pro's of the opposition and focus only on their con's while doing the exact opposite for their 'team'.
Fanboys share similarities to patriots, it is the result of blind passion which spills into ranting and feverish attack or defence. Although it can be misguided, biased and nonsensical, it is expression of a person's passion. We are always going to see this, we're never all going to 'get along', as nice as it would be, it's a case of assessing it for what it is, taking away good points (if any) and moving on. You can't fight fanboys or patriots, simply learn to live with them.
Yep unfortunately fanboys will always be around. Its just a shame most of them act like 1 Direction "fans" rather than people who are just passionate about gaming as a whole.
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