Good vs Evil. Right vs wrong. Us vs them. Human nature wants to divide the world into two sides and then be on the ‘right’ one, often without fully understanding the issues. This has been true for many of the world’s pastimes. Religion, sports, politics all utilize this primal instinct to great effect.
Gaming has been no exception to this from the very beginning.
When we spend time on an activity, it becomes part of us. It becomes part of our identity and hence how we define ourselves. At the point of inception, gaming, a relatively new pastime, would not have had the deep divides that plague it today. As a fledgling entertainment medium, the instinct would have been to separate itself from other more popular media. It would have given the birth of the “I’m a gamer” stamp, and we would have all been gamers together.
This was never fated to last long. Humans are social animals, and we do poorly on our own. However, according to some, "tribalism" exists because the human brain is not adapted to working with large populations. Beyond 150 persons, the human brain must resort to some combination of hierarchical schemes, stereotypes, and other simplified models in order to understand so many people.
The explosion of gaming and its increasing role in our daily lives would have led to firm divisions. No longer were we content to simply be a “gamer”. That had become too broad a definition, too vague an identity, too crowded. It was something our primitive brains could not reconcile. We became PC games, Console gamers, PS3/Wii/ DS/Xbox fanboys. We now propagate the same mindless fanaticism that has tainted many of the aforementioned pastimes.
When we attack a fellow gamer, the criticism is no longer received as logic. It is received as a threat, on a more primal level. The reactions become vicious and illogical, as it should be. An attack on self/identity is very similar to an attack on life. Logic is not the evolutionary response. Don’t expect it.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Sorry for changing title to anyone who approved this before.
I began to think it was less than ideal
It's interesting that it kind of follows the LEFT/RIGHT of politics. I'm in the United States, and a lot of people here like to assume that there are only two types of people, Liberals/Conservatives, as if it was as distinct as Male/Female. They leave no room for middle or moderate or mixed.
It's sad to see the video game fanboys doing the same thing.
Since the "Console War" is not specific to a country, it might be interesting to see how the fanboys are spread across the world.
If you could, comment on this post and state your country and console affiliation (with middle/moderate/mixed allowed)
Personally, I'm from USA, own all 3. I used to be a pure PS3 fan, but now it's about 50/50 ps3 and xbox. I have given up on the Wii.
Good read, and I agree completely of why we have fanboys. However, this is just a normal thing in this world, we all have different opinions and we defend them a bit too much sometimes. I see fanboys just as sports teams have fans. You also have to consider the fact that we are on the internet, and people act a bit more extreme with their preferences.
It's normal to try to defend something you spent good money on, to an extent. But, defending these multi-billion dollar, global corporations (Sony, MS, Nintendo) is stupid.