What motivates console/brand wars?

[Anonymous No.6532696]

I was thinking, the most logical theory behind console wars is that people do it in order to defend their own childhood, but actually I've known cases of people who ended up being fans of the systems they WANTED as a kid but could never have, so the opposite.
On the other hand, I think another possibility for console wars is that people project certain systems or brands with people they don't like - for example, "the guy who started dating my crush likes X console, therefore all X console fans are idiots that I must hate".
What could be some other reasons? I know "just for the lulz" is an option but honestly, baiting and the like just works better with politics nowadays, doing it with video games won't give you nearly as much "lulz".

[Anonymous No.6532708]

It's the same psychology that drives divisions between competing brands of any kind: a 'them or us' attitude that never fully subsided that advertisers have used since they first came into power.

But what would I know? I've never been involved in console wars of any kind.

[Anonymous No.6532738]

Either people joking or legit schizophrenia, either way you should be doing your taxes now, fuck videogames.

[Anonymous No.6532740]

>>6532708
I think capitalism eliminating the old way of life, tribalism etc, left a void. If they know it or not people desire conflict so they can show their own superiority. Modern life doesn't give you a lot of opportunities for that. You aren't getting lots of sexual partners? You weren't picked for your high school football team? You don't have a great high paying job? That doesn't mean you have to admit to yourself that you're a failure. Support a sports team. Get into party politics. Who cares if you're not playing. Who cares if you don't know shit about political theory and all the politicians you're cheering on are corrupt dickheads who take money from the same people the "opposition" does. Your guy won. If he didn't win you can cry for four years about how the other guy cheated to win. Same logic is at play in the demented minds of people who shill for billion dollar corporations and their products for free. Nintendo didn't just make that console you like playing games on. They are your friend. You must defend them at all costs.

I'm not immune to this shit my stupid monkey brain makes me think like this sometimes too. Self awareness is not a gift. It's a motherfucking curse.

[Anonymous No.6532743]

>>6532696
Zoomers larping about shit they weren't there for.

[Anonymous No.6532754]

>>6532696
Poor and/or mentally underdeveloped people

[Anonymous No.6532769]

Inferiority complex. Some people want to feel superior and objectively correct for having certain opinions. It's a thing in pretty much every hobby.

[Anonymous No.6532770]

>>6532696
Entertainment by and for Israelis.

[Anonymous No.6532779]

>>6532743
I honestly don't doubt that this board has 45 year old manchildren who are still shitposting about the PSX.

I'm not saying some of it isn't young kids trying to live out console wars of old, but some people will not let shit go.

[Anonymous No.6532781]

>>6532696
Because it's interesting. Why am I not allowed to compare one product to another? Should I just mindlessly consoom?

[Anonymous No.6532784]

>>6532781
One thing is to compare, another completely different thing is to war about it.

[Anonymous No.6532787]

>>6532781
You're still mindlessly consuming but now with added narcissism.

[Anonymous No.6532797]

>>6532787
neither is bad

[Anonymous No.6532801]

>>6532787
Jokes on you I dont even own a console. Nostalgiafags who boast about how they were spoiled by their parents and had multiple retro consoles are the biggest faggots on this board.

[Anonymous No.6532802]

>>6532797
>>6532781
>noooo let me be a console warrior it's not fair that you scrutiny my nonsensical demeanor noooo

[Anonymous No.6532803]

>>6532696
Tribalism is a deeply-set human instinct. In a civilized society, with no reasons to legitimately fight, we draw retarded lines in the sand and start shitflinging over consumer electronics instead. A lot of these people also tend to be poor, young/childish, and/or justifying their purchases by lashing out at the other options, instead of just admitting that different people like different things for different reasons. It strikes me as something autistic and petty people do in the absence of actual causes to give a fuck about.

I don't mind a little bit of a banter/competitive 'edge' to the conversation, it can be truly beneficial to have naysayers and critics to expose flaws and hold people to their standards. It easily gets out of hand though, just look at /v/. You literally can't even have a thread about an actual video game without people [who know nothing about the game] coming in to try and identify what 'team' you're on, to drag you into their tribalism. The minute one starts considering a multi-million dollar corporation their "friend" and other consumers their "bros", it all starts going down the shitter.
Picking a company to 'trust' and 'support' just means you'll sweep their mistakes under the rug and turn a blind eye when they try to fuck you - as corps ALWAYS do.

[Anonymous No.6532805]

>>6532801
>boast about how they were spoiled by their parents and had multiple retro consoles are the biggest faggots on this board.
Huge cope if I ever saw one. Idorts are always based and actually center their opinions without brand cocksucking bias.

[Anonymous No.6532824]

it seems quite similar to the supporter phenomenon in sports. why support a team which belongs to a private company? I never understood.

[Anonymous No.6532832]

>>6532824
Tribalism, as others have said.
It's really fucking weird though, because I don't understand it.
I guess if I was a caveman, I would be fucking dead because my nature is to be against tribalism or large groupes, so I'd either be a successful lone hunter, but most likely starved to death.

[Anonymous No.6532840]

>>6532696
Poor people

[Anonymous No.6532845]

Shitting on the Snezzz will never not be fun.

[Anonymous No.6532849]

>>6532824
I'm a sports fan myself and like any form of entertainment it's a distraction from my own life and personal failings. Another way to pass the time.

[Anonymous No.6532852]

>>6532845
At the end of the day, you're just thinking and obsessing over a system you supposedly don't like, and you won't change people's opinions on it, but you already know this.
Rent free inside of you, forever.

[Anonymous No.6532860]

>>6532845
>>6532852
Exactly. You'll never change anyone's mind, and no one cares about this as much as you do. Which makes you look like a complete sperg who holds asinine grudges

[Anonymous No.6532869]

This thread makes console warriors nervous.

[Anonymous No.6532874]

>>6532696
I will never find this shitshow not amusing. I've seen it all in the last 35 years; Amigaians VS Atariots, PC Nerds VS Macfags, Nintendorks VS Seganoids, $onydronies VS Micro$hafters - all loyally defending "their" brands while the corporations laugh all the way to the bank.
You useful idiots. :)

[Anonymous No.6532929]

>>6532852
Sounds like you're the one who takes it too seriously faggot

[Anonymous No.6532932]

>>6532929
>noooo let me be a console warrior! it's not fair!

[Anonymous No.6532935]

>>6532929
>if you don't partake in console wars, then you take console wars seriously
How does this logic work?

[Anonymous No.6532936]

>>6532935
Because you actually care way more about it than I do

[Anonymous No.6532940]

>>6532936
>If you don't console war like I do, then you care about it more than I do
Really?

[Anonymous No.6532945]

>>6532936
Wow, you're an epic troll. A true master of the ruse. By merely pretending to care you are showing that everyone else really cares about the issue. Not that they think you're an annoying cunt and wish you would just shut up. Such a thing could never be true.

[Anonymous No.6532947]

>>6532945
Thanks for proving my point.

[Anonymous No.6532950]

>>6532947
He's not really proving your point, he's saying that your "troll" facade falls off when, at the end of the day, people just think you're annoying, not because of the content of your shitposts, but because of your repetitive behavior.

[Anonymous No.6532954]

>>6532950
It's not a troll facade faggot. Shitting on the Snezzz is fun. No idea why it bothers you so much and I don't care.

[Anonymous No.6532956]

>>6532929
>>6532936
>>6532947
If your reason to console war is "loli trollu", then OP already addressed that:
>What could be some other reasons? I know "just for the lulz" is an option but honestly, baiting and the like just works better with politics nowadays, doing it with video games won't give you nearly as much "lulz".

[Anonymous No.6532960]

>>6532956
Like I said, you care too much. Stop being a bitch.

[Anonymous No.6532961]

>>6532954
>>/vr/thread/S6488572#p6488719
Sup australia-kun. You are a mental case.
Pretty funny to see you getting triggered by this thread.

[Anonymous No.6532965]

>>6532961
>it's actually him
I'm starting to believe most of the console war shitposts on /vr/ are by him. Fucker is actually making me turn schizo like him.

[Anonymous No.6532967]

>>6532965
>I'm starting to believe most of the console war shitposts on /vr/ are by him
Nah, he mostly centers on Nintendo, although I think he's also the bernieposter? Not sure, but a lot of the anti-nintendo stuff is him yeah.

[Anonymous No.6532968]

g'day mate, crikey, it's time we throw anotha shrimp on the barbie

[Anonymous No.6532974]

>>6532968
based

[Anonymous No.6532980]

>>6532968
You fool, now he's gonna know how to avoid your filter

[Anonymous No.6532981]

>>6532936
dog what

[Anonymous No.6532983]

>>6532980
Good, imagine the guy adding Z's to avoid some anon's filter. hilarious.
Seriously though, sometimes I think about australia and feel sad, I'm sure he's not a bad person, and probably has some misfortunes going on IRL. He just uses console wars to vent. Not defending him but, I always try to put myself in other people's shoes.

[Anonymous No.6532986]

>>6532983
Nah he's probably just retarded and his family doesn't care enough about him to not allow him unrestricted internet access.

[Anonymous No.6532991]

>>6532986
Well that's what I meant by IRL misfortunes.

[Anonymous No.6533150]

It's well-covered in this thread for the tribalist mentality, but something I'm not seeing mentioned as much is the tendency for kids to use console warring as a combination of coping with not being able to play X or Y game and using what they like to define their personal identity as they struggle to find it. The first one is that kids rarely can play all systems, so rather than accept that something they can't have may be good, they use sour grapes analogy to assert that it probably sucks anyway. Then the identity bit, well, kids are very susceptible to identity questions, because they are finding themselves and how they exist in the world. Consumer goods feed this notion by helping them say "I am a member of this group" or "I am a fan of this product" . It helps them to feel like they belong, and that's what makes them feel good.

When you're older, you realize that you don't need products to shape your identity, and when you have a job, the affordability of video games becomes largely a non-issue (unless you work a seriously shit job). These aren't true for kids though (usually) so it is a big deal to them.

Source: I was a corporate cocksucker when I was a kid

[Anonymous No.6533160]

>>6532696
Stupidity. Imagine shilling for a brand, kek.

[Anonymous No.6533170]

>>6532696
A couple of little things called FACTS and LOGIC. Nintendo was always shit, Sega was always better and I will never get tired of btfo'ing retards who think different no matter how much they cry.

[Anonymous No.6533236]

>>6532696

You typically only got one expensive console for quite some time, and as we all know it's more likely that reality spontaniously shifts before you admitting you made the wrong choice.
So people reacted with an overdefensive stance.

Combine that with an "us" vs "them" mentality and you get your Great Console War.

[Anonymous No.6533240]

>>6532696
Hate is what fuels it. When Sega released their "Genesis Does What Nintendon't" commercial, Nintendo fanboys got offended like SJW's and decided to hate on Sega. Then of course there was Sony Ponies who hated both Sega and Nintendo.

They brag about how superior the Playstation is. They were so obnoxious about it. Luckily for me I ended up loving all three bands, but I was still critical of their bad decisions such as Nintendo's blatant censorship and anti-consumer practices, Sega's 32X add-on & Bernie Stolar saying that the "Saturn is not the future", while also discontinuing the sales of Sega Saturn consoles & games.

Which left me very frustrated and forced me to buy a PS1 if I wanted to play the new wrestling games and Resident Evil 2. There was not much to complain about Sony until the PS2 and PS3 days, but that's not retro. Hating one console over the other or hating a company is lame.

[Anonymous No.6533325]

>>6532696
That Kina gurl? sheet she looks brain fucked good get.
Dendy shoutout!

[Anonymous No.6533328]

>>6533170
idorts > shit > you

[Anonymous No.6534502]

Because it's funny.

[Anonymous No.6534507]

>>6532696
holy shit kinaman got a gf

[Anonymous No.6534804]

>>6534502
>doing lazy wojak edits to justify his poorfaggotry and childhood traumas
lol

[Anonymous No.6534806]

>>6534502
OP already commented on "I do it for the lol":
>I know "just for the lulz" is an option but honestly, baiting and the like just works better with politics nowadays, doing it with video games won't give you nearly as much "lulz".

[Anonymous No.6534893]

>>6534507
>>6533325
Deformed chad

[Anonymous No.6534898]

>>6534507
>>6533325
Deformed chad

[Anonymous No.6534918]

>>6532696
Militant kids with no lives.
>>6532779
>>6532801
Based
>>6533170
Get over it already, noone cares.

[Anonymous No.6535118]

>>6532696
Zoom is what motivates those and most other childish antics

[Anonymous No.6535185]

>>6532696
Idiocy and being perpetually a man-child

[Anonymous No.6535206]

>>6534898
I know that guy he has a russian channel whith the same content as the angry nintendo nerd only in russian, don't know if the channel is up anymore but i found some lost footage same guy lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3icuHU2J_E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDCW_hXrU1E

[Anonymous No.6535465]

>>6532740
Basically this. Fuck derpibooru you bad wrongziggers

[Anonymous No.6536895]

based thread

[Anonymous No.6537903]

the fact that often people can't afford all alternatives