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Reminder that console wars were invented as marketing
I hate to keep saying it because it makes me look like I'm defending Nintendo. Nintendo sucks and I'm not interested in the Switch 2 or any new console tbh.
But I really dislike the focusing on "one brand bad" that gamers do. Because they'll excuse the same practices from the brands they do like. If you say Nintendo bad, but active suck down Sony, Microsoft and Valves slop than you're just doing a marketing campaign for those companies and you're not any less consumerist or cringe than a Nintendo fan.
They got you fighting a console war so you don't fight a class war 😔
Well I agree on your general standpoint, but blaming a company or talking about how one company is bad is IMHO totally fine, even if other shitty companies exist. Otherwise we end up in whataboutism.
I want to be able to say "Apple is Nestle for IT" without being colored as a Windows fan. Both are shit and blaming one doesn't imply being fine with the others.
Good point. I'm just so used to hate for a console coming from rabid gamers that just do it at the behest of their favourite brand.
I find there’s this dynamic where when they’re talking about their favored platform in neutral spaces, they’ll be slavish fanboys shitting in other platforms and passionately defending their platform. But in spaces dedicated to their platform, it’s nothing but gripes and grievances about the shitty things the corporation is doing with regards to the platform.
Not helped by how 90% of the complaining about Nintendo from fans of other consoles is some variant of "graphics not gray-brown hyperrealism = for gay babies".