Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:47 pm
Fanboys...*sigh*..why oh why
Well its been a while since i posted here at TLR...but hell lifes been crazy and sides that i bought my PS3 lol.
Anyways on topic. I was trying to read a few reader reviews for F1 Champoinship racing on IGN and a few other sites and guess what...on a PS3 Review..Xbox360 fanboys lit up the area a plenty. Now i know its the same with Sony and Nintendo Fanboys...hense the point of the post. I am sick and tired of the media and such rousing all this hatred between people over something as silly as "PS3,Wii,360 who will win the console war?!!"
let's face it the "console war" was created BY the media and not the companies. Sony and M$ have been cashing in on the game industry for YEARS. Whats really funny is noone really noticed the Sony/Nintendo joint project back i nthe early 90's. nintendo fanboys have been lighting up PS3 and 360 websites for weeks now boasting about teh high end sales...but whats funny..how long was Nintendo on the bottom? I'd say about 10 years...maybe 12. Back in the early 90's Nintendo and sony worked together to when Sega released the saturn and sega-cd and nintendo was still with the SNES. Sony was building a CD-RoM for the SNES named "Nintendo Playstation" (or something like that). Due to teh expencive unit sony built (far superior to the Sega CD/Saturn) Nintendo secretly contracted panasonic for a cheaper lowend model. In the end the CD SNES got scrapped because of faulty parts and so on...sony 8 months later took the tech they developed for nintendo and built the empire we know today...Playstation.
M$ Watched throughout the 90's and watched gaming fall away from PC use due to upgrade cost every other month for games. The console market was decimating the PC market for gaming 3:1, so what did they do to fix teh loss of revenue? Built the platform known as Xbox. After seeing the success of the PS1 and the Current of the PS2 M$ couldn't afford NOT to get into the game race at that point. Here lies the problem...fanboyism hit an alltime high during this time. So for what i'd say 7 years now we can't get adamn decent review, post of news or any other form of info because the editors, writers and CEO's of websites like IGN,Gamespot (in particular)..etc...etc are of the generation of fanboy domination. To keep them fighting is to keep hits to the pages as well as help them bolster the company they support more (not like those places are open minded i mean c'mon)
This is a post i made in a forum today and got flamed as a "fanboy"
HOME is going to really broaden the horizons of the PS3 and allow the platform to gain the acclaim it rightfully deserves, though it will be late in the year but late is better than never. I remember telling some friends la year ago that the PS3 was going to have the same if not harsher growing pains as the PS2 did when it first came out.
If anyone remembers the launch day (i got my ps2 on launch day) you brogh it home listened to that awesome "whoosh" noise it made and thought things were great...till you looked at the game selection...guess what you were playing MORE ps1 games at that time than PS2....i see a pattern...we are playing MORE PS2 games than PS3...go figure...More powerful and potentially groundbreaking software will come about in the next year to year and 1/2 and thats fine. The PS3 is a VERY complex piece of equipment. the Cell processer is unlike the standard CPU that PC and X360 use. What i find funny, the Xbox fanboys and the Media have YET to comprehend that the 360 was built upon existing technology of the time, yes it was far ahead of the original Xbox, still it was only a tad better than the Highest end PC and honestly today's high end PC's are far more powerful...having Quad Core Processers, the Nvidia 8800 GPU..gigs upon gigs of memory as well as terrabyte..TERRABYTE!!! disk storage.
If you look at all 3 platforms up close (excluding PC), you will defiantely notice that the PS3 in a technological standpoint is in a whole different league. The 360 is an outstanding machine do not get me wrong, but its tech is going to show age in the near future...the announcement og the 120 gig model and the add-ons for the regular 360..120gb HDD, Wireless Network adaptor,HD-DVD (since they can't use Blu-Ray)..etc...etc..they are starting to realise the error of the early release of the 360. The 120gb hdd is obvioulsy a fix for one of 2 things (though a mediocre one) And if you tally up the price of the additional hardware.. you get what the media says was "far too expencive for a console" the tally with all the upgrades adds up to over 700+dollars!! a tad higher than the $640 USD (with 7%sales tax) of the PS3. And as a gamer and consumer...i feel more comfortable with the product (gaming console) being intact when i buy it and not having to "upgrade" it. A console is there to avoid upgrades untill the next console comes out in the usual 4-7 years cycle. But after a year. If as a consumer i was aleady knowing i would have to purchase upgrade upon upgrade..i would build a highend PC and add a few parts every year. I see almost nof differance here...though it is a matter of interpretation.
1. lack of blu-ray storage for games..making the end user download the content that will be on the PS3 versions of multiplatform games. The PS3 will have all the game dta stored on the BLu-Ray Disc where as the 360 using either DVD or HD-DVD only have a tiny fraction of the storage capacity. Thus causing Downloads of content that will be bundled with the PS3 version.
2. Trying to dip in so to speak on the DL movie arena as well as the arcade and download game arena. And they had that market cornered for some time till the PS3 came around.
Now i am in by no means a "sony fanboy" read my sig lol. I am a realist and also a game design major in school.(last year baby!!!) I see it how it is. Yes teh 360 has sony by the balls for now...but thats for now. And to be honest this whole damn console war is silly...the companies didn't start it..the media as well as fanboy fanaticism started the so-called "Console War". Either way things are looking up for ALL of us GAMERS in the way of bigger, better, sexier and more elaborate and fulfilling titles in the years to come. Multiplatforming will also show the differance in the platforms as time goes on...and gamers are the ones who hate multiplatforming...how sad..the game company is just trying to make more cash to make better and better games..but fanboys can't see through that.
I dunno i felt like ranting
"my hopefully new sig lol"
"when will fanboys learn that their idiotic rants get noone anywhere. They say their platform is better..can you prove that it IS better and put the opposing platform company out of business by your rant? Can you say that 100% of your platforms features is perfect? Does your platform NEVER fail? Do you think game companies really care if they multiplatform and if it pisses you off and they are NOT doing it to make more money for rising design costs? If you answered yes to any of these questions you are a liar plain and simple. Get over your ego and just play
Edited by - Dark_Shadow2004 on 4/1/2007 6:00:16 PM
Anyways on topic. I was trying to read a few reader reviews for F1 Champoinship racing on IGN and a few other sites and guess what...on a PS3 Review..Xbox360 fanboys lit up the area a plenty. Now i know its the same with Sony and Nintendo Fanboys...hense the point of the post. I am sick and tired of the media and such rousing all this hatred between people over something as silly as "PS3,Wii,360 who will win the console war?!!"
let's face it the "console war" was created BY the media and not the companies. Sony and M$ have been cashing in on the game industry for YEARS. Whats really funny is noone really noticed the Sony/Nintendo joint project back i nthe early 90's. nintendo fanboys have been lighting up PS3 and 360 websites for weeks now boasting about teh high end sales...but whats funny..how long was Nintendo on the bottom? I'd say about 10 years...maybe 12. Back in the early 90's Nintendo and sony worked together to when Sega released the saturn and sega-cd and nintendo was still with the SNES. Sony was building a CD-RoM for the SNES named "Nintendo Playstation" (or something like that). Due to teh expencive unit sony built (far superior to the Sega CD/Saturn) Nintendo secretly contracted panasonic for a cheaper lowend model. In the end the CD SNES got scrapped because of faulty parts and so on...sony 8 months later took the tech they developed for nintendo and built the empire we know today...Playstation.
M$ Watched throughout the 90's and watched gaming fall away from PC use due to upgrade cost every other month for games. The console market was decimating the PC market for gaming 3:1, so what did they do to fix teh loss of revenue? Built the platform known as Xbox. After seeing the success of the PS1 and the Current of the PS2 M$ couldn't afford NOT to get into the game race at that point. Here lies the problem...fanboyism hit an alltime high during this time. So for what i'd say 7 years now we can't get adamn decent review, post of news or any other form of info because the editors, writers and CEO's of websites like IGN,Gamespot (in particular)..etc...etc are of the generation of fanboy domination. To keep them fighting is to keep hits to the pages as well as help them bolster the company they support more (not like those places are open minded i mean c'mon)
This is a post i made in a forum today and got flamed as a "fanboy"
HOME is going to really broaden the horizons of the PS3 and allow the platform to gain the acclaim it rightfully deserves, though it will be late in the year but late is better than never. I remember telling some friends la year ago that the PS3 was going to have the same if not harsher growing pains as the PS2 did when it first came out.
If anyone remembers the launch day (i got my ps2 on launch day) you brogh it home listened to that awesome "whoosh" noise it made and thought things were great...till you looked at the game selection...guess what you were playing MORE ps1 games at that time than PS2....i see a pattern...we are playing MORE PS2 games than PS3...go figure...More powerful and potentially groundbreaking software will come about in the next year to year and 1/2 and thats fine. The PS3 is a VERY complex piece of equipment. the Cell processer is unlike the standard CPU that PC and X360 use. What i find funny, the Xbox fanboys and the Media have YET to comprehend that the 360 was built upon existing technology of the time, yes it was far ahead of the original Xbox, still it was only a tad better than the Highest end PC and honestly today's high end PC's are far more powerful...having Quad Core Processers, the Nvidia 8800 GPU..gigs upon gigs of memory as well as terrabyte..TERRABYTE!!! disk storage.
If you look at all 3 platforms up close (excluding PC), you will defiantely notice that the PS3 in a technological standpoint is in a whole different league. The 360 is an outstanding machine do not get me wrong, but its tech is going to show age in the near future...the announcement og the 120 gig model and the add-ons for the regular 360..120gb HDD, Wireless Network adaptor,HD-DVD (since they can't use Blu-Ray)..etc...etc..they are starting to realise the error of the early release of the 360. The 120gb hdd is obvioulsy a fix for one of 2 things (though a mediocre one) And if you tally up the price of the additional hardware.. you get what the media says was "far too expencive for a console" the tally with all the upgrades adds up to over 700+dollars!! a tad higher than the $640 USD (with 7%sales tax) of the PS3. And as a gamer and consumer...i feel more comfortable with the product (gaming console) being intact when i buy it and not having to "upgrade" it. A console is there to avoid upgrades untill the next console comes out in the usual 4-7 years cycle. But after a year. If as a consumer i was aleady knowing i would have to purchase upgrade upon upgrade..i would build a highend PC and add a few parts every year. I see almost nof differance here...though it is a matter of interpretation.
1. lack of blu-ray storage for games..making the end user download the content that will be on the PS3 versions of multiplatform games. The PS3 will have all the game dta stored on the BLu-Ray Disc where as the 360 using either DVD or HD-DVD only have a tiny fraction of the storage capacity. Thus causing Downloads of content that will be bundled with the PS3 version.
2. Trying to dip in so to speak on the DL movie arena as well as the arcade and download game arena. And they had that market cornered for some time till the PS3 came around.
Now i am in by no means a "sony fanboy" read my sig lol. I am a realist and also a game design major in school.(last year baby!!!) I see it how it is. Yes teh 360 has sony by the balls for now...but thats for now. And to be honest this whole damn console war is silly...the companies didn't start it..the media as well as fanboy fanaticism started the so-called "Console War". Either way things are looking up for ALL of us GAMERS in the way of bigger, better, sexier and more elaborate and fulfilling titles in the years to come. Multiplatforming will also show the differance in the platforms as time goes on...and gamers are the ones who hate multiplatforming...how sad..the game company is just trying to make more cash to make better and better games..but fanboys can't see through that.
I dunno i felt like ranting
"my hopefully new sig lol"
"when will fanboys learn that their idiotic rants get noone anywhere. They say their platform is better..can you prove that it IS better and put the opposing platform company out of business by your rant? Can you say that 100% of your platforms features is perfect? Does your platform NEVER fail? Do you think game companies really care if they multiplatform and if it pisses you off and they are NOT doing it to make more money for rising design costs? If you answered yes to any of these questions you are a liar plain and simple. Get over your ego and just play
Edited by - Dark_Shadow2004 on 4/1/2007 6:00:16 PM
