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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.

We're calling them nintendrones, by the way.

In a capitalist society we are constantly judging and being judged as having moral character based on our consumption. Pierre Bourdieu called this “distinction” and argued that the objects we buy and surround ourselves with represent “taste” that demonstrates and furthers class positioning in a capitalist society. Under capitalism, these objects carry great meaning and a person can communicate complex ideas and social information simply by how they hold a specific consumer good in their hand. Bourdieu argued that class struggle is also a “classification struggle”.

I revel in your misery gamers.