Why do some xbox owners hate PS3 owner and viceversa

[Sparcrypt]

Personal preference is all that matters- anything else is fanboyism really.

For me, what I would get from a PS3 is not worth the cost... yet. I want to play through the uncharted series and one or two other exclusives, so when the price is right I will get one.

Till then, 360 and PC are how I game.

 

[Vicarious Vangaurd]

It's basically people defending their purchases by attacking another, or just plain brand loyalty like there is with auto manufacturers and the like.

 

[Quellist]

The secret is to buy every console then you can just shrug and say 'hmm, they both have their merits'

Ofc both groups will hate you, but then do you really want to be friends with people dumb enough to get into a pissing contest over consoles?

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

It´s a discussion that is as annoying as the mac versus pc debate. People stick to one machine and need to validate their choice by attacking anyone who chooses the alternative. It´s sad fanboyism.

 

[krugerrand123]

People want to reassure themselves that they made the best purchase.

 

[Randomperson9999999]

i dont hate the people who have xbox/ps3 i just hate it when they say "xbox is better" or "ps3 rulz"

 

[Radeonx]

Have you heard of fanboys?

If no, educate yourself by searching Google for the term "Fanboys". But they'll grow out of it eventually, I mean look at this site as an example of growing out of console flamewars.

...Wait...

This, except replace console flamewars with flamewars over anything. But he got the gist of it.

 

[LilithSlave]

They are both wrong.......

Clearly the SEGA Saturn is the best
Fuck advancement

I sure wish they would put the Keio Flying Squadron games on the PlayStation Network or something.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Because they're immature fanboys that haven't yet realized both systems are the exact same thing, just a different machine. Some people prefer the PS3 exclusives, others prefer the Xbox exclusives. I like both exclusives, but I've always had PlayStation and Nintendo, really. I've never had an Xbox so it wasn't really my first choice. Personally, I don't really like or want an Xbox 360, for reasons which I am not at liberty to speak because I'm not interested in getting a warning, suspension, or being banned.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Because, like Yahtzee said, people can usually only afford one console, and people have the irrational need to think that the one they got is the best.

 

[wolf92]

Fanboy wars. They've existed since the dawn of time, and they aren't going to stop now.

 

[dogenzakaminion]

Because people don't like being wrong. Since most people can only afford one console, they have to reaffirm that their choice of whichever console was the best. This goes for all platforms and even goes beyond the video game world. Think of all the people who ***** about the unreliability of English cars, when the people who own them just ***** about the "cold and clinical" approach to German cars.

 

[yman15]

Same reason most conflicts in the gameing community happen people want to justify only buying one. Works with most things I see the aforementioned Console wars, PC vs Console, MW3 vs BF3 etc..

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Have you heard of fanboys?

If no, educate yourself by searching Google for the term "Fanboys". But they'll grow out of it eventually, I mean look at this site as an example of growing out of console flamewars.

This trope can explain things better.

The PS3 was a grand system bogged by it's own developmental theory. Sony sought exclusivity and ended up shooting themselves in the foot.

 

[Michael Hirst]

Very silly people don't have anything better to argue over and of course believe their choice is always the better choice even if there's barely any difference at all. Sometimes little console kiddies just need to act superior about something. It's all quite funny really, they attack each other over such trivial things yet they could be looking into a mirror.

 

[McGuinty1]

Two words: BLAST PROCESSING!

The current gen is literally no different from the bickering between the respective SNES and Genesis camps 20 years ago. I used to constantly defend my uncool SNES, and things like the fact that the blood was somewhere between brown and mauve on my console's version of MK1 did nothing to dull the pure smirking satisfaction I got when a couple of my Genesis-booster friends played the ever-loving fuck out of F-Zero and Firefox at my house.

I still laugh at the stupid urban-cool tack that Sega's advertising took in those days, some out-of-touch adman's idea of the hip-hop culture that was becoming mainstream and popular with kids back then. I also still dislike how hard it is to control Sonic, but I realize that if you could run at a few hundred miles an hour, you wouldn't exactly be able to stop on a dime either.

At the end of the day, there were some pretty cool games exclusive to both consoles, and unfortunately the multiplatform titles that were ostensibly identical in both versions tended to run or look better on one console over the other (usually favoring the SNES). Gee, something seems so familiar about that...

 

[Rodrigo Girao]

I don't even have an X360, but I'll tell you what I detest about all things PlayStation: that awful controller, which I hate with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. It's a clumsy, incompetent, brainfarted design. As far as I'm concerned, it is borderline unusable.

 

[McGuinty1]

I don't even have an X360, but I'll tell you what I detest about all things PlayStation: that awful controller, which I hate with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. It's a clumsy, incompetent, brainfarted design. As far as I'm concerned, it is borderline unusable.

Oddly enough, there are an awful lot of people who would say the exact opposite.

As for me, I find each of them have their strengths and weaknesses. As general purpose controllers for 3d action/platforming, there is nothing much better. I've always found mouse and keyboard the most intuitive for shooters and anything else first-person; with a pad I find that I always overshoot my intended target, wasting precious milliseconds. For certain other genres, I tend to use specialty controllers: joystick for flight games, wheel for racing, arcade stick for fighting games. Of course, not everyone is a retched asshole with enough disposable income to own each of those three like I am, but it pays to have the right tools for the job at hand.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

Because they're stupid, stupid fanboys.

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