The Name's Boy, Fan Boy... Hating Not Stirred.

I recently came across this video posted on the evermore unsubstantial and irrelevant pages of Kotaku.

http://n4g.com/news/580917/...

Now it's clearly fake, you can see this pretty obviously if you watch the video, something I think Kotaku might want to do sometime soon.

All of this begs the question; just how far will a fanboy go to sabotage a rival product? That is assuming this video was edited by a fanboy and not those loquacious guys over at Turn 10. For now I'm not going to start a conspiracy and just assume a fanboy did this.

At what point in a fanboys life does a game for a rival console threaten their console (and what would seem themselves personally too) so much that they go out of their way to create a statement of pure malevolence such as this?

It's a whole new level of hate that I'm having genuine trouble to comprehend. I can clearly see the desired effect this particular fanboy anticipated, to create a wave of negativity exacerbated by recent reports of a certain PS3 exclusive racer having (slightly exaggerated) slow load times. The plan is almost genius if it wasn't so malicious; however the execution leaves much to be desired, which brings me to my second question...

...What if this person was a little more masterful at their craft?

Would people genuinely believe the sabotage propaganda and let it negatively impact their experience of the game? With such a massive franchise and gaming pedigree it's doubtful but there are those that want to believe. These comments were taken from the N4G page:

(I’m not going to post names but you probably know who said what anyway)

"This is likely a problem using a 50GB bluray, and without an install its not surprising. But with all this development time I would have thought they would've spend some time optimising loading."

"Well, they can always patch it. 90% load time for the cars, 9.5% for the track and 0.5% for the trees. "

"Forza never had this problem"

The following were taken directly from Kotaku.com

"A delayed game in more ways than one, it seems."

"Release date + Load times = When do you get to start playing?"

"Maybe the game is already out, we're just waiting for it to load."

Now while a couple of those were just trying to be funny most of them are perpetuating this nonsense because deep down they feel just as anxious as the person who created the video. Everyone in the gaming community knows that Polyphony Digital and Gran Turismo are synonymous with quality, which brings me to my third and final question...

...Why can't we just enjoy good games and be grateful that a development studio has taken the time and dedication needed to create something truly beautiful for us to enjoy, whatever the platform?