Coming into this as a Nintendo fangirl, it was like a gleeful kid in the candy store.
I mean, Nintendo takes a crap on its userbase, but it's the kind of crap we want oddly enough >_>; It's the same game rehashed, and that's just how we like it.
Microsoft gives you a similar thing, but more tailored towards making boys feel like men and girls feel like useless sex objects that can't do anything right. And don't get me started on their online gameplay, ho-lee crap >_<
Sony kind of tries to do everything, which leads to me staring at my wallet and going "yeah, um...no." There's nothing really leaping out at me.
But this isn't about the game systems themselves. It's about the game companies.
Nintendo is an evil organization, but they don't really do anything disturbingly evil. They're like the kid who grabs discarded books. Sure, they might be taking something that's not theirs, but it looked kinda discarded anyway so, whatever.
Microsoft is a -very- evil organization, and they don't even try to hide it. Their Xbawks line is made of shoddy equipment that's barely strung together, and their 360's have an abysmal failure rate (I've heard it ballparked at 60%, my -God-). I won't even cover their evil legacy, as it goes far and deep; and frankly, their idiotic fans aren't bright enough to realize that.
Sony takes the cake, though. If you wanna name their biggest three frack-ups prior to this one, you'd be hard pressed to defend their actions. Let's start with the least evil: the removal of Linux. Yeah I guess that gave room for hackers, so maybe that was kind of a good thing. Exploding laptops. Okay, that's kind of bad, but hey, that was just some third world country fracking up.
Opening up a backdoor in your computer that isn't detectable and allows malware to slip in unnoticed just by putting in any Sony music disk. Yeah, that's pretty much as evil as it can get. They willingly did this to people who spent money on their product.
So frankly, I don't think Sony deserves any kind of respect after this fiasco. Especially given that they aren't exactly nice little angels. Don't get me wrong, I love my PS2 to death; but I don't think I'm ready to go spread my legs and give Sony all of my personal info. They don't give a shit about me, so why should I defend them?
Same with any game company, really.
This is just two equally stupid fan bases waving their e-peens and shrieking obscenities. So in many ways, it's like being forced to listen to an Xbox live conversation. Both companies suck equally hard, and their fanbois aren't willing to accept that their companies suck.
But the Sony fanboi. Oh GOD the Sony fanboi. It's like the poor fella is permanently trapped in a delusional mindset. They defend Sony as doing the right thing when this entire mess was caused by Sony doing two -very wrong- things. Removing the other OS option, and storing your personal data as lackadaisical as I store sneakers. But somehow the Sony fanbois remain utterly ignorant, refusing to admit that SONY IS AWFUL. At least some of the Microsoft fanbois have the balls to admit that Microsoft is awful; but I'm hard pressed to find a single Sony fanboi who hasn't stopped suckling on Sony's toes for long enough to realize that Sony has a terrible foot fungus.
And when it's pointed out, they started sucking the toes even harder because foot fungus is delicious.
