There's still so much focus on a console war fanboy fest that I'm not sure that's even the war anymore.
Sometimes I feel like the "console war" is entirely artificially made. Because I've truly never seen a person fanboy over a Sony or Microsoft console beyond "yeah I got this one," but people online talk like its straight up warfare. But it does create constant talk about "muh exclusives" and "muh hardware" to shill those out to create random marketing all over the internet.
Not consoles, but I did have the unpleasant experience of having to work with an Apple fanboy. If he spent more time actually doing his job than bitching about the computer, he might have not been fired after 6 months.
A job that was entirely done on a web site through a browser. The whole job could have been done through a kid's tablet.
It's shocking how much of it has been fake this entire time. People went back and forth between Sega and Nintendo all the time. The sales numbers for Playstation don't make sense.
I guess I should add the people were working for the companies back and forth. The rivalry on the actual ground didn't exist. The Yakuza and others wanted there to be, and I'm fairly certain Sega was using consoles as a money laundering scheme, not an actual rivalry.
And people still go hard with Nintendo vs Anything Else, and even for a while PC vs Console.
No one has given a shit about Playstation versus Xbox since the PS3/360 era at best. They still sell, but nobody is out there getting heated and defensive about it. Things you need for a "war" in this sense.
Sometimes I feel like the "console war" is entirely artificially made. Because I've truly never seen a person fanboy over a Sony or Microsoft console beyond "yeah I got this one," but people online talk like its straight up warfare. But it does create constant talk about "muh exclusives" and "muh hardware" to shill those out to create random marketing all over the internet.
Not consoles, but I did have the unpleasant experience of having to work with an Apple fanboy. If he spent more time actually doing his job than bitching about the computer, he might have not been fired after 6 months.
A job that was entirely done on a web site through a browser. The whole job could have been done through a kid's tablet.
It's shocking how much of it has been fake this entire time. People went back and forth between Sega and Nintendo all the time. The sales numbers for Playstation don't make sense.
Remember this statement when it comes to politics as well.
I guess I should add the people were working for the companies back and forth. The rivalry on the actual ground didn't exist. The Yakuza and others wanted there to be, and I'm fairly certain Sega was using consoles as a money laundering scheme, not an actual rivalry.
And people still go hard with Nintendo vs Anything Else, and even for a while PC vs Console.
No one has given a shit about Playstation versus Xbox since the PS3/360 era at best. They still sell, but nobody is out there getting heated and defensive about it. Things you need for a "war" in this sense.
Nintendo vs PC makes sense. I consider the PS and XB just part of the PC now.
Between Game Pass and Sony porting all its former exclusives, they basically are. Which makes the idea of some console war even more ridiculous.
Heck with how easy every single Nintendo console is to emulate, its basically a PC thing to. Leaving that battle more "piracy vs anti" than anything.