Where does Elitism even come from?

[Blood Brain Barrier]

I'm not very tech savvy so forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't the PC the platform is the best hardware yes? But I don't think that makes it objectively superior in all regards, a die-hard JRPG enthusiast would be starved for the lack of releases of the games they like and would be forced to migrate to another platform. Likewise I imagine there could be a case made for a Phone being the best gaming platform as someone always has it on them, and they find the games engrossing.

What I'm suggesting is that their are other metric beyond that of hardware capability to measure a platforms worth.

Of course. Which is why most people engaged in these kinds of discussions are engaged in them for penis-measurement purposes. It's also why you don't see women often engaged in them.

This is also the definitive answer to the original question:

where does all this even come from? Like what prompts people to argue for hours about which is better?

 

[Vivi22]

People like to be convinced that they make good decisions. But if the decisions they make are good, then obviously the converse decisions are bad. Ergo, if you make a decision that they did not, then you obviously have inferior reasoning skills.

Hence every argument ever.

This is pretty much it. People place an undue amount of their self worth in the purchasing decisions they make because no one wants to spend hundreds on a bad decision. So what often happens after people purchase something is that they start trying to justify that purchase to themselves even more by building up the product they bought and often tearing down the ones they didn't.

The remarkable thing is that it's such an ingrained psychological phenomenon for most people that even when you know about it you can still fall victim to it.

 

[GoddyofAus]

A false sense of Superiority that Humans have been cursed with since we evolved.