Quote: "If you like the XBOX360 you're in a camp. If you like the Wii, there's nothing up 'cause the Wii isn't part of the war.
It's hard to defend a console with only one good title, you know. And I respect everyone's opinion and crap, but I don't see many people accusing people. I see people telling things and other people telling why those things are incorrect. And if you read back, objectively, you cannot deny that the PS3 camp acts slightly whiney. If I think they do, they prolly do, as I don't really fend for either of both sides.
BTW, the PS3-people still haven't replied to my last Blu-Ray remark. That's another thing that makes them look whiney: They only pick the remarks that are incorrect and don't say anything about the points that are correct. Sorry, but that just makes you look brainwashed and sophist."
Maybe in other forums if you like either consoles you're labeled things. But on here if you come out and say you like the Wii or 360 you're okay with everybody really. I don't think anyone holds any preconcieved ideas about your opinion on things. Like Matt's "inability" to see Halo 3 as a good game, just as a recent example.
I also look back and see people nit-picking things about the PS3 that the other consoles have faulted on too. To me that's a problem. It just keeps fueling the "Its bad for Sony here, but okay for Nintendo or Microsoft there." mentality.
I think the successfulness of Blu-ray is independent of the success of the PS3. I don't know why you feel like PS3 fanboys are obligated to defend it. Honestly the dominant HD format doesn't matter really, unless you are planning on investing in the PS3 with the agenda of building a Blu-ray library. Which is still as dumb as buying an HD-DVD player addon for your 360 right now, if you ask me. I see it like this, the majority of people want to buy a PS3 to play games (or that's the reason they hope to buy it for); if Blu-ray doesn't make it, your investment was just for games anyway and there will still be PS3 games; if Blu-ray does make it, you no longer have to purchase an HD player, if you were planning on getting one anyway. I think I mentioned it already and really don't care about this Blu-ray vs HD-DVD discussion. I'm a Blu-ray advocate for games and only because its the only high capacity format being used in games, not because its Blu-ray.
Quote: "@Krilik - I kind of know why there is a strong reaction to bash Sony when they slip up. If you think back to a month before the launch, everyone just knew it was going to be king of the hill. Nobody questioned it, as the PS brand has been at the top for two rounds. The Sony boys were taking it all for granted, as were the Sony execs (with many famous quotes regarding users throwing away their PCs, etc.) Businessmen were paying the homeless to stand in line all day to turn the PS3 over for a quick profit on eBay. Once the sales results started coming in and the figures showed a crapload more systems being sold without a game, it raised a few eyebrows.
Now, a year after the launch, Sony is just barely keeping up with MS and Ninty (especially Ninty, who was last place in the last game round, the *entire* round) Competitive gamers just love to rub salt in the wound when they're beating each other in games, and it's the same way when we're talking about each other's consoles. The PS3 has a negative connotation with gamers now because of the arrogance and the conceit, and it's collapsed on them.
Honestly I wholeheartedly believe Sony will pass the 360 and Wii eventually--- I just don't know when, but I for one enjoy seeing a big upset in all competitive races "
Yeah I totally agree. There's not a doubt in my mind that people are taking their dislike of Sony and concentrating it toward the PS3 community. To me it seems that people fail to objectively quantify the value of the PS3 because of what its been surrounded by. For example, Sony says the PS3 will be 100% backwards compatible. It turns out not to be, and some games have issues, or don't play as well on the PS3 as they would on the PS/PS2. This becomes "bad" because Sony lied about it, not "bad" because the quality of the backward's compatibility isn't good enough.
Which leads me back to my original comment of the critcisms being hypocritcal, absurd, or based on arbitrary expectations.
