bite me, fanboys... all of you

Written by TheBBPS

Thursday, 01 June 2006 20:32

I remember when I was a kid, my friends and I all had different systems. I had a Genesis, my other friends had SNES, NEO GEO and TG16. I later got the Saturn (yes, I own a Saturn) while my other friends got the Playstation, N64, and one poor shmoe actually paid money for a Jaguar. None of us wasted money on 3DO because they have always, and will always make fecal matter.

Through all of this different system owning, not once did we fight over which system was better. We would notice things like Mortal Kombat looked better on SNES than it did on Genesis, but the graphical difference was always out-weighed by the blood code (A-B-A-C-A-B-B for the forgetful).

Around the time Playstation was released, I started noticing two things. 1) people were more concerned with pixels than gameplay. 2) people starting talking serious shit about systems they didnâ€™t own, and often hadnâ€™t played. It was the birth of the fanboy and the beginning of my distancing myself from other people who play video games.

Fanboys, in my opinion, are terrible for the industry. They are a guarantee for companies, and if that guarantee is large enough, it will hurt the product a company puts out. For example: the Xbox originally came with a hard drive. It was 8gigs and made the system unnecessarily heavy. So heavy that the system would regularly fall out of the bottom of the box when it was picked up by anywhere but the bottom. Back on topic, Microsoft announced that the next Xbox wouldnâ€™t have one. A lot of people said this was a bad idea, but Xbox fanboys insisted they would buy the system anyway. Well, big companies like Microsoft actually read vidiot forums, and when they see that people will pay the same money for less product, they act on it.

Now my friend has traded in his copy of Oblivion because the developers couldnâ€™t develop for just the optional hard drive, so the load times, for him, are unbearable. Fanboys are why Sony has no fear about bringing in a system thatâ€™s launch price is $600. Why should they fear? They know they have loyal fans who will buy it just because itâ€™s the newest Playstation.

If you seriously think about it, what is the point of being so dedicated to one company? Where is the advantage for you? Theyâ€™re a company. Their soul purpose is to take what little money you have in your pocket and put it in theirs. There is no logical reason to blindly follow a company. Any company. If youâ€™ve been a Nintendo only fan since the early 80â€™s, no doubt, youâ€™ve played some great games. But if you only owned a Gamecube in the last generation, you missed out, big time.

In this day of gaming, the only reason to own only one system is because youâ€™re financially strapped or youâ€™re a casual gamer. Both are understandable, but neither of them are an excuse to rant and rave about how your system is the only system worth owning. So I say to you fanboys, stop it. Just stop it. Stop hurting the industry, and most of all, stop annoying me with your idiotic rants that hold no merit because of your biased nature.

Comments (7) Add Comment

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written by danzuke, June 02, 2006

I think the thing that bothers me most is cheering against the other systems. I ok with people picking their favorite and sticking with it, if they want to. But if you're a Sony guy how does it help you if Nintendo fails? Competition is good for innovation.

Besides, like Greshkov stated above, the company just wants to make money, and the blind allegiance just lines their pockets.

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written by RabbitMan, August 24, 2006

Nice said
I salute you sir!

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written by Neouni (Nintendo Fanboy), August 25, 2006

Nintendo atleast has innovation

i really hoping the PS2 would have a new controller but they came back with the same unconfortable controller

in which i like the Xbox & gamecube controllers better as you can assign all buttons and sticks to a game cause you can reach them all

SNES used better graphics thereby slowing itself
(Zelda, tree leaves comes to mind)
Genesis advertised that they where fast

Sony does copy alot from Nintendo just look at where the PlayStation name came from
wish they copied a functional controller layout in which you can use all the buttons and sticks effectifly like with the competition

some people say that the XBOX playerbase consist of more Nintendo players then SEGA & Sony players i wonder if there are any stats

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written by danzuke (NetPhantom), August 25, 2006

interesting fanboy rant... a few issues

your spelling is awful

I dont think anyone would say all the buttons on the XBOX controller are able to be used easily (unless you're talking about the 360 controller)

Sony didn't steal the name from Nintendo, they used the name to release the cd system they were developing for Nintendo, until Nintendo cut the deal and left Sony out to dry. If Nintendo had honored their agreement with Sony, there would be no Playstation system.

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written by Daniel de Moraes, September 03, 2006

im a radical when it comes to fanboys too, altough i like Nintendo Over the other companies, but thats couse I had a SNES and for me thats the best game library ever. but while we defend our favorite game designers and consoles, we don't stop to think "what if the videogame medium was unified?" i mean, you don't need to buy a DvD player to see a Warner Movie, and another one to see a Fox Movie, of course that videogame as we know it have imediate problems about unifying (the concepts of their controllers, and hardware specifications etc..) but if we take for example the games that are done for PC's, they can be played by anyone who owns a computer, and everybody can use the controller wich they are more fond of. And i'm not only saying this for economic reasons (i just cant afford to have every single console released), take for example the XBOX LIVE, its an awesome on line community, but what if I own a playstation2 ou a gamecube? i just can't play with people that use other consoles, even if i have the same game tittle, it may seem an utopic thought to want to have a unified gaming system, but i guess that at the end what i want to say is that when we blind ourselves for a company, they will be only interested in selling consoles, and then you get a next generation of consoles that does not offer anything else than better graphics and higher prices.