Do you still care about system wars?

Methinks, being in my late 30's that system wars was a thing of the past. Mostly fueled by nintendo vs sega/nintendo vs ps. I don't feel the need to have the discussion over which console is better or to which console am I faithful to. I have nintendo and playstation consoles and also play on steam. I get the games I want, consoles are just a medium to get there.

Well... do you care about console wars, or are you out of that adversity interest?

Don't think I was ever in systems wars for its truest sense.

I originally came to get quick updates on developments and I still use it for that I suppsose althought there is less of it these days.

Besides that its for shits and giggles.

I don't care as much as I used to (from the years 2005-2008). It's not what it used to be. SW has some positive aspects, though. SW presents new articles that come out, so I'm always up to date on what's going on in the video game industry/community. I'll probably stay here for a few more years. Right now I don't have a job, nor am I in a relationship. I have lots of free time, so I might as well come here to keep myself busy.

Having real emotional feeling for a company you buy tech and software from is not normal,I 100% get the emotional attachment to sports teams,,I'm a big Newcastle United supporter but a plastic box 🤣,and hatred towards a company that makes a similar plastic box you won't buy because of brand loyalty 🤣🤣.

On the plus side,it's funny to wind the sad bastads up 🤣

They were good for competition. Drives people to do better. Nowadays, Xbox is a joke, Nintendo is mostly kid games and Sony is the only all around video game company. Unless they get some of these 'people' out of the video game industry and really all industry's things will be the same.

There's nothing to fight about anymore. It was fun when everyone was doing something different, but now PlayStation and Xbox is the same thing. The few exclusives PS has suck ass and everything on Xbox is on PC. Nintendo is on hiatus. PC is the only good option for a true gamer.

We could fight about which console manufacturer sucks more I guess, but I'm not very interested. If console gaming started to not suck so much balls, it might ignite the SW spirit.

I agree with that. It's the gamers own fault as well. Xbox One with Kinect 2.0 (which was far more advanced than the first one), could have made the console differ a bit. But gamers wanted the console to be the exact same as the PS4 (minus the movie games) and now PS, Xbox and the PC largly share the exact same experience.

MS won't even go near any other gimmick now, like VR, because it's not really worth it with gamers.

We could have had the PC with it's own type of games, PS with it's own type of games, Xbox with it's own type of games and Switch with it's own type of games.

Now all you really need is the PC and Switch to be honest and you're pretty much good to go.

Uhh does anyone actually care about this stuff? I thought we were here for the entertainment lol

Never did. Just here for the lulz.

System wars died in its legacy form... Game libraries, services, and industry approach has been pretty level among the companies for a while. The advent of the console exlusive and timed exclusive really nerfed the power of unique libraries that could be argued about.

Not sure if there is as compelling a fight anymore. It's really a lot of people arguing why they justified their purchase ignoring the fact that people who made the other console purchase are having the same amount of fun. 🤷

I don’t care about the arguments for or against video game companies, even as a kid I thought it was unintelligent and immature to make it a competition between fellow consumers. I come here just for news and updates on gaming in general, I don’t participate in the arguments of why X is better than X.

"Nintendo vs Sega" was a fun topic when i was a kid and that eventually evolved into "Nintendo vs PlayStation vs Xbox" around the time i discovered this forum..

But once Nintendo started doing their own thing with the Wii and Xbox implemented Xbox Play Anywhere on PC, the "console war" was over in my eyes.. PlayStation was the clear winner with the PS4..

These days, I just enjoy the games (though I do prefer Xbox's ecosystem approach).. At this point, I mostly just come to SW out of habit and for the lolz that inherently come from both fanboys and concern trolls..

Nintendo on hiatus because they never innovate. sticking in 80s kiddy games. now thier audience are 50 year olds who grew up playing zelda mario and think gaming is not beyond them colorful. kids today play PUBG and fortnite.

PC is only single gaming platform for true gamer. get everything from sony to microsoft.

Think 360, PS3, Wii era was the last time it was relevant tbh (by relevant I mean worth discussing), Nintendo has basically broken away into its' own subset of gaming, Sony and MS are basically doing the same thing and offer the same experience, PC is offering the widest experience but also has its' own drawbacks. So yeah System wars as a concept is lacking because it doesn't really feel like there's a clear differential these days.

System Wars, what is it good for? lolol :P

I care about @SecretPolice

@kvallyx:

lol :P

Never have cared about it.

I never did care about “system wars” in the first place.

Nope I don't care it's childish AF. I can understand if you are in your teens and maybe in your early 20's because your brain isn't fully developed yet but fighting for corporations makes me want to throw up.

Nope! That died during the PS2 era.

Since you are in your late 30s, I am in my late 40s, and I felt the "system wars" are childish in the first place. The same goes with fanatically supporting a sports team or a political party or faction. I am not partisan or a tribalist in heart and as a middle-age adult, I feel I am too old for being one. The real-world events and experiences of the last several years shaped my current attitude against factionism in all its forms.

However, I do read what other users think on this forum, but once the posts become too one-sided, irrelevant or immature, I stop reading them. It is a shame that System Wars is a shell of its former self and I do not like how social media has mostly replaced message boards and blogs.

If PlayStation still had their forums, I would be there still. Game Spot has offered me entertainment though. When I was a child I would probably have been involved in "system wars," but I'm a different man and couldn't care less about material things, much less a company who I have no investment in financially.

Always. It's the hate that fuels me! >:(. j/k.

I like the see how the different consoles/handhelds stack up. Given the constraints of a console/hanheld: it's interesting to see the solution each company comes up with. Sometimes they meet the gamecube standard....other times it's an N64 :S. But it's interesting.

But in terms of only buying one console..playing only games from one company and joining team green/red/blue/...er whatever colour the PC is (rainbow? Beer coloured?)...nah i don't plant my flag on those hills. I'll play what i want on the machine i want to play it on. I have preferences of course.

This!

Don't really care for consoles like that and being a PC gamer just kills the mood for this place to be more fun but anyway, I still come here out of bad habit, and what makes this place fun is interacting with users here, talking about games and this is still the most active forums on GS but this isn't saying much.

Don't really take SW seriously either.

You are aware Kinect 2.0 technology just wasn't advanced enough to stick around right? Even MS admitted making Kinect 2.0 was a mistake and even gamers like myself knew it just wasn't ready as the tech wasn't advanced enough to make it work. Not to mention it raise the price of Xbox One $500 made it look bad and cutting corners making the One look weaker. And it doesn't help the fact developers didn't want to take time implanting any of their games within Kinect 2.0 so in the end, without developers using it, makes Kinect 2.0 is worthless to have. I will admit, I did like Kinect on 360 first time around with Star Wars version and Kinect did took the fun away from Sony's wand for that matter lol.

MS isn't afraid of VR, the tech still has a long way to go which is why they aren't working VR and I do agree with MS not going Sony's route with VR. Even though I'm a PC gamer to heart, I still ended up purchasing XSS just to play old games and my kids use it more than me.

All system warring is done on twitter nowadays.

Why won't you not care when a mad gamer is pure comedy? Free entertainment.

nope, but its fun messing with people who do still care for some reason

Never did, you would just find some interesting news from certain posters.

The ideology of a game is what matters, NOT the system(s) it is playable on. I tend to buy a console after it has 5 games that interest me. If I enjoy all 5 games, that is money well spent on the system. Everything that comes after is just a bonus.

My tastes have been consistant: I like games that emphasize gameplay and mechanics, games with strong emergent gameplay, video game stories don't impress me since even the best are pale shadows compared to even a mediocre novel. Simulationy gameplay or Arcade? Honestly I love them both. Dwarf Fortress is one of my all time faves, but so is Super Mario. Both focus on doing what they set out to do and do it really well. Just give a game a clear vision, and stick to that.

Edit: All in all, my tastes align with games like this potential 2023 GOTY candidate,

Not current day AAA games.

Nah, never 'cared' as such, I'm just here for 'shits and giggles'!

Like others have said, it's not the same as used to be, and I've been on here since probably the early noughties. That was back when exclusives were far more common and there were are lot more differences between the platforms.

Kinda reminds me of the banter I had with my friends in the school playground back when the C64 and the ZX Spectrum were the kings of video games! 😂

@curono: yes my friend, of course I care. I shill for the big X 24/7. On top of that, I don't just believe xbox is better than ps5, I simply KNOW its better, its a fact at this point. We got gamepass, and we got bethesda, soon to be AB. There is no denying it, its a complete fact, and its funny watching cows get butthurt and flopping around. Another fact is 12 tflop > 9 tflop. Let this sink in deeply.

@Maroxad said:

Never did, you would just find some interesting news from certain posters.

The ideology of a game is what matters, NOT the system(s) it is playable on. I tend to buy a console after it has 5 games that interest me. If I enjoy all 5 games, that is money well spent on the system. Everything that comes after is just a bonus.

My tastes have been consistant: I like games that emphasize gameplay and mechanics, games with strong emergent gameplay, video game stories don't impress me since even the best are pale shadows compared to even a mediocre novel. Simulationy gameplay or Arcade? Honestly I love them both. Dwarf Fortress is one of my all time faves, but so is Super Mario. Both focus on doing what they set out to do and do it really well. Just give a game a clear vision, and stick to that.

Edit: All in all, my tastes align with games like this potential 2023 GOTY candidate,

Not current day AAA games.

I like this philosophy. You buy a system when it has 5 games that interest you. Imagine cows buying ps5 for crotchety and crank, demon souls remaster verions 2, tlou1 remaster version 4, horizon forgotten west and finally at the very very end of last year GoW. Ooff. Isn't this just sad?

With the xbox we got gamepass, theres 1000 reasons to buy the system. Nintendo? Its enough said, they've been pumping out quality since the beginning. Heck PC even has some great stuff with the steam deck (regular pc is trash though).

PC gaming is trash my friend, non stop bsod, driver issues, messing around with regedit, hackers and viruses. GPU that cost $4k lol. PC gaming is done, its trash period. On top of that CP flopped, did you forget 5/10?

So true.

I even wait a year or 2 before getting Nintendo systems. Even though they tend to be safe bets for me.

My only exception to this rule might be Steam Deck, since the utiltly from the thing might be worth it, especially if my gaming PC ends up falling apart. Gonna see if Thermal Paste will save my 1070 (series 40XX is a waste of money).

That said PC gaming is ace.

Of course, wish ill on most of you.

No, not after SONY won everything for so long, kinda gets boring.

See this is why System wars is such a draw to me I read this kind of bollox. The only thing there that is even remotely correct (and that's a tall order) is the cost of GPU's. Yes, currently GPU's are expensive, but not $4K expensive.

All the other crap is just pure bull. Even during the horrid Win9x period in the 90's did I ever need to open Regedit. Can't remember the last time I opened it, because I've never needed to open it. In the same way I've never needed to open the event viewer either.

Hackers? What type of 'hacking' are you referring to? If you're talking about online game cheating, well it's a bit of problem on consoles now too. As for viruses, can't think of the last time I had one. Don't download dodgy software, or view certain websites, no problem.

Windows is now a really solid OS. You should generally only get a BSOD with faulty hardware. Again, can't remember last time I've encountered a BSOD.

PC mustard race, better luck next gen console plebs.

Nah, only time I was ever really about the system war, arguing about SNES and Genesis in elementary/middle school. But even back then, we all played both lol.

The forum was always about the fun, the metagame, riling up the few who did take it seriously. Even if it was a system I liked, even if it was my favorite system of the time, would still go after its fanboys for laughs.

These days, don't really engage in it. Metagame is dead. Forum is a relative ghost town, everyone knows everyone. Makes it impossible to flip into a different act and bait a different faction every day. And really just the nature of todays industry, these machines and their libraries, not all that interesting to argue about. Bickering over scraps, pretending any minor difference is a huge deal. Forum gets stuck on loop, arguing the same topic for months at a time.

Coming here is just a habit at this point. Shoot the shit, discuss games, dunk on the occasional fanboy take.

So in other words, you don't know how PC gaming works? Gotcha.

@davillain: Kinect 2.0 was fine. It didn't have much of a chance out the gate before it was dumped to complete with the price of the PS4.

It wasn't really explored much. The sales of the Xbox One was low, so, the incentives to develop with it were also low.

It was far more advanced than the first one. It could theoretically read emotions and stress levels too.

I once did, I was young and stupid. 😅

Never knew someone cared about me that much ♥

nope, never did.

when i first joined gs i was an enthusiast pc gamer, used to spend most my time swinging my dick around the pc forum with my pc spec loud and proud in my sig with the other pc nerds. i used to believe high end pc gaming was the best way to game but was always much more about the games, rather than the systems.

plus there was the required use of cow, sheep, lemming and hermit terms to describe the factions in sw. never, ever been able to bring myself to use them. they're just too cringe

LMAO

I had a N64. My friends came to play Smash Bros. I went to their house to play PS1. It was legit cool. We wanted some of each other's games from time to time. Specially me.

The gap between consoles today is so little. If you have a Microsoft console/ PC and a Switch youre pretty much covered. Never cared for PS anything tbh.

I cared much more about it back in the 360/PS3 era; those SW threads were brutal.

Nowadays people just say nonsense, don't back it up and, then just move onto the next thread. lol

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That being said, a ton of "ammunition" has been striped away so things are much less interesting.