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PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 Console War: Unneeded Animosity?

PSX Extreme writes: "Has anyone else noticed a disturbing trend in the console war, specifically between PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 loyalists? I own both consoles, most people I know own both consoles, and if you're not familiar with the PSX Extreme readership, we are a diverse group that loves to play great games. Sure, we've got mostly PS3 fans, but we don't - and never will - tolerate the fanboy mentality from either side. But over the past year or so, it seems as if there's a huge amount of animosity between those who favor one side or the other, and I suppose my question is...why?"
Cyrus365 - contributor
Published: 451 days 21 hours ago | Article | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
 
 

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avacadosnorkel - 452 days 3 hours ago
1 - anti-fanboy articles suck
my system is better than yours because I paid for what I believe in
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Jamie Foxx - 452 days 3 hours ago
1.1 - RIVALS COMPETING IN A SAME GENRE WILL ALWAYS BREED FANBOYS
like,basketball,hockey football,golf why should gaming which is big business be any different?

its a fact of life
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bomboclaat_gamer - 451 days 20 hours ago
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fanboys are low lifes. who need to be a part of something cuz they dont fit in. like nerds, and all
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Sarcasm - 451 days 19 hours ago
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anti-anti-fanboy article fanboys suck more.

Then again, i somewhat agree. There should be more pro-gamer articles instead of anti-fanboy articles. Because it's like the anti-war protestors who are actually fueling War more than a peace rally.

The universe works in strange ways.
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Fanboy Slaughter - 451 days 18 hours ago
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Anti-fanboy articles are great because it brings to light the stupidity of fanboys, and anyone that says anti-fanboy articles suck is...well...being a fanboy, and they're just mad about somebody busting them out.
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IdleLeeSiuLung - 451 days 17 hours ago
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it is an anti-fanboy article until you realize the article isn't neutral and spews PS3 preferences... duh! That is just stupid....
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Kratos Spartan - 451 days 19 hours ago
2 - "So be good, for goodness sake"
"whoahhhhh somebody's comin"

Bubbles to anyone who can tell me what movie that line came from
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Johnny Rotten - 451 days 19 hours ago
2.1 -
Santa Clause is coming to town!

EDIT: damn you want a movie :(
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Max Power - 451 days 18 hours ago
2.2 - that quote...
is from ghostbusters.
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Fanboy Slaughter - 451 days 18 hours ago
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Ghostbusters, methinks.
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Fanboy Slaughter - 451 days 18 hours ago
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Way to beat me to the line, Max Power.

Same friggin' time, but you were first.
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Kratos Spartan - 451 days 17 hours ago
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bubbles for you maxpower. eh, you too fanboy. have a nice day!
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Max Power - 451 days 14 hours ago
2.6 - well thanks....
for the bubbles, one back at ya, and one to fanboy slaughter for coming in a close second.
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dericb11 - 451 days 19 hours ago
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So because this idiot spent $800 USD he is proud to say they don't argue. Give me a break. The reason you pick one system is so that it will be the next PS2. The system witch gets every and has more third and first party support then the rest.
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asyouburn - 451 days 19 hours ago
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i could understand if both systems cured cancer, and one cured it quicker than the other, but they play GAMES. 360 vs ps3 is the biggest non issue of all time. who cares what system joe blow plays his games on. i really dont care. it didn't matter to me if snes was better than genesis, or that xbox was better than ps2, i know that to play all the good games, you have to have all the systems. both companies make a fine product. i can understand fanboys buying whaever they think is better, but flaming someone else because3 they bought what they thought was better is plain stupid. if you love your console so much, go frickin play the damn thing
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harrisk954 - 451 days 16 hours ago
4.1 - Actually...
the PS3 is helping to cure cancer (F@H)!! ;-)
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Fanboy Slaughter - 451 days 18 hours ago
5 - It says it all in my name
I believe what he says as far as the whole fanboy thing getting way out of hand.

Like when a Gamestop employee starts getting red in the face because you buy a PS3 instead of a Wii or 360 (and yes, it happened to me). Or when somebody on the internet feels the need to wish horrible death upon you because you don't support their system.

I mean, competitive spirit has been around for ages, like in my area in Northern IL, it's always been Cubs vs. Sox when it comes to baseball, and man oh man when the White Sox won the World Series in '05, Cubs fans went total apesh!t, and some @sshole started smashing the windows out of cars that had Sox stickers on them.

The console wars are similar, but it's being taken too far, by people of general worthlessness who feed on it, and exacerbate the problem by making websites and committing general acts of Jackassery (i.e. the video of some loser in a Master Chief costume teabagging a PS3), and making videos on YouTube on why "your system sucks and mine's better, and it has to be the truth because my video's on YouTube and has over 100,000 views."

Bring on the disagrees, 'cause I know they're comin'.
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bishop-br - 451 days 18 hours ago
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Yup. Sucks to love a pile of plastic and transistors.

It's about the same of being into plastic arts, but love more the frame than the picture itself.
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khellendros1 - 451 days 18 hours ago
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First my problem with the 360 stems from it's reliability issues, but since my PS3 just died on me I guess I can't argue that anymore. Second, I have a strong hatred for Microsoft that's existed long before the XBox. I hate the business practices of MS and I'm afraid that they are going to try and monopolize the game industry like they have monopolized the OS market. Maybe it's unfounded but from what I've seen in this generation with them buying exclusives and doing whatever it takes to buy their way into victory it really frightens me. Sony on the other hand, has been a company that I have supported since long before the PlayStation brand was created. They place a priority on innovation to get market share. I've owned more than a dozen different products in my lifetime. So my loyalty stems from long before this console crap. If the 360 was made by any other company than MS then I would probably own one by now.
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IdleLeeSiuLung - 451 days 17 hours ago
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I see it from a different perspective as I have always seen MS being good to their consumers. I have never really had a complaint about a piece of MS software and their activation policy on Windows XP/MS Office 2003 is awesome. IE was free and integrated well with Windows. Almost non-existant DRM in prior versions of Windows (I haven't used Vista/Office 2007 enough to know, only things I hear). I actually dread if we had some other company having the monopoly....

Sony on the other hand have a long history of DRM (securom, rootkit scandal), forcing proprietary formats, non-existant warranty/support for their products (case in point their Thinkpad priced laptop with el-cheapo brand support) and poor user interface. I must admit that in recent times I have seen big changes at Sony, more specifically the PS3 is arguably the most open console out their and give them great props on that.

I'm probably going to get hatemail just like last time, when I said something pro MS. For some reason MS can only do all wrong, yet Google can do no wrong... To me a company is only as good as it treats it customers in recent times. A company changes attitude really really quick, so don't blindly love a company.
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Deee187 - 451 days 17 hours ago
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i agree with this guy
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Neurotoxin - 451 days 16 hours ago
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Unneeded Animosity!?! Then what will the people with no lives do with their time?? Fighting over Pointless Frame Rate Comparisons and how much AA a game has is the only thing that stops them from getting a "real life" Girlfriend and social skills, obviously this is not what they aspire to. Master "Chef" and Ball-Sackboy is the only joy they have.... I say let them have there petty niggles. :o)
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JonahFalcon - 451 days 15 hours ago
11 - I don't own both consoles
Not going to spend $800 for 2 consoles.
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Wolf873 - 451 days 15 hours ago
12 - The guy makes some really good points,
and I think we should try and let go of this disease that is fan-boyishness. At times I too gave into this but I'm trying really hard not to be one sided now. Of course, there are some people that might compel you to write nasty stuff but ignoring them time to time would do wonders.
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celestialninja - 451 days 15 hours ago
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A simple divide and conquer atmosphere. Sounds like DEMO and REPUB method to me.
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theturk - 451 days 14 hours ago
14 - Article hasd one mistake
The PS3 is, feature for feature, cheaper than the Xbox 360 and not more expensive as the article claims.
Blu-Ray Player, easily upgradable standard SATA II Hard drive, free online gameplay, and other stuff I've probably overlooked because I'm too keen to get back to Little Big Planet Beta, Motorstorm 2 demo and delete that crappy hail to the chimp demo.
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OnslaughtX - 451 days 13 hours ago
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People won't know the differences? I disagree. It's called education. People are fully able to maturely research the differences in consoles before a purchase without resorting to such childish tactics.

Fanboys almost seem to stem from not only validating their own purchase, but feeling insecure about someone else's so much so that they need to shoot others down. Sad.
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OnslaughtX - 451 days 13 hours ago
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Fanboys... the lowest form of scum and villainy in the galaxy. They are unable to discuss a hobby as adults. They are so below me its silly, and yes, sometimes I revel in being able to take their ill thought "arguments" and ram them down their hypocritical throats in the name of entertainment... but then I left Gamefaqs. This site appears to be even worse, amazingly...

And yes, it's okay to have preference. It's okay to like something more than something else. But people take everything as a personal insult these days, or an attack. Hell, I'm not a fan of Halo. I find it mediocre. But I have respect for it, and what it did for console FPS. But goddamn, if you don't treat Halo 3 as a perfect game, as the second coming of Christ, you are labeled a fanboy? Eff that. Learn to dialogue people. Vocabulary. Intelligence. Use it, you might be surprised at the good discussion that comes out.

I think the internet, forums, etc have helped in the breeding of this BS. No accountability. People hide behind their cozy monitors, without fear of reprisals. Seriously, they need to grow up. I pity fanboys. They don't have lives, and if the most important thing is their love of a piece of electronics, as they cheerlad a faceless corporation that wants nothing more than their MONEY, well...

It's a hobby. It's just a toy. Unless you MAKE games, and have a TRUE personal stake in things, you will never, EVER understand.
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cmrbe - 451 days 13 hours ago
17 - Most PS fans like myself
didn't care about what MS and supporters were doing before until alot of PS fans realise that MS and some supporters are out to destroy the PS brand which we love. Its really simple.

MS sofar early in this gen is more concerned about making the PS3 less desirable to consumers than them making the x360 more desirable to the consumers. For example MS is still charging for Live. By making it free their system will be alot more desirable than the PS3. MS not releasing the x360 early to improve their system reliability would also make the x30 more desirable to consumers but no, they were more focused on beating Sony.

The talk from the MS brass sofar has been very fanboyish. They even made a list of PS3 exclusive to poach. This is the example that the heads of the xbox division setting.
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OnslaughtX - 451 days 13 hours ago
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I agree. People forget, competition is GOOD. But MS's tactics are something I don't agree with. Fanboys don't seem to see the bigger picture here. GAMERS are losing the WAR while the fanboys are worried about the insignificant skirmish at hand.

Horse armor was just the beginning...
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darkpower - 451 days 11 hours ago
18 - AMEN!!
However, there are issues like what I've been seeing.

My article that I made about Kotaku, for example, that I submitted here (which I do not regret submitting and I stand behind the article, by the way). I was attacked by the pro-MS fanboys because of whatever reason they listed. Yeah, there were some people that were giving me advice, and I thank them for it (forgive me if I don't remember the names of those people). However, the issues begin when you go and talk about ANY fault that you think Microsoft has. You mention even ONE and here we go, and there's not one time in which they ever say anything to actually counter your point. They just don't want to think that anyone is ever allowed to say anything BAD about Microsoft, and you're never allowed to criticize anyone who gives MS a free pass.

No, I don't think Microsoft made a completely bad console. Hell, I'm not sure how in the hell anything about me saying that I was planning on buying the 360 once I had the money to DO so. However, there is good and bad with any system, and I have said the faults that Sony has had with their system before. The main difference I've seen from the Sony "fanboys" is that they have taken the criticisms with a far better civilized responses than the 360 fancrowd has taken criticisms of THEIR console. Are ALL fanboys on EITHER side like that? Of course not.

But the main issue behind why I think the 360 crowd is more rabid now towards anyone that brings up faults in the 360 is because the 360 was riding high against the PS3 for a good long while. NO one thought the PS3 would gain ground in such a short amount of time, and the people who stood behind the PS3 suddenly had substance to back up why their reasons. They are in panic mode (why, I ask), because they never thought that the "enemy" could do something like that so quickly.

I believe that they really need to chill and take the good with the bad. This site is really the only gaming site I've seen so far where things can happen to your account when people do not like your opinion (they can take away your right to EXPRESS that opinion by bursting bubbles).

And people have to really STOP equating two things that are not equal. You are not a fanboy if you say legit faults of the other console. That's not what a fanboy is. You CAN own a console and still say that the thing has faults. A fanboy is one that will venomously defend his own console without backing anything up or fail to even see ANY faults while bashing the other time and time again without daring to think that there would be good to a console. The fanboy label has been pinned on too MANY people in this respects.

There, I've said MY view.
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haruvister - 451 days 10 hours ago
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An article purporting to be unbiased on a site called psxextreme? Good one.
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darkpower - 451 days 8 hours ago
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So...EVERY site has to be a multiplatform site to be in any way unbiased? That is kind of ridiculous.
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