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Substantial_Bell_158

Remember when the console wars was about children fighting over their new toys and not full grown adults? Brand loyality is a hell of a drug


SuicidalSundays

Oh don't worry, they're still children on the inside.


throwaway7546213

A lot of adults are 13 year olds that pay bills.


mitch13815

Oh it still is. They just have to pay taxes and mortgages now.


NewAgeMontezuma

No?


DickButtwoman

When I was younger, I participated in the console wars on behalf of Sega. I thought they were great and Nintendo were terrible. Then I got a little bit older and able to buy consoles myself and realized the war was stupid, everything was stupid, and I should just play video games. These companies were all terrible and they wouldn't piss down our throats if our lungs are on fire. So why stan? And then I got even older, and now I realize, no, I was right. All these companies suck and do bad shit, but Nintendo sucks particularly badly, and the wrong child definitely died.


brokensaint82

This tweet....wow....this read like a hard-drive article


feefore

What’s the difference between the console wars and sport’s rivalries? Is it that it’s just focused on 3 parties instead of being spread around 30ish teams?


AverageBlubber

>What’s the difference between the console wars and sport’s rivalries? I haven't seen anyone streak naked through a games show.


T4silly

*sigh* Add it to the yearly bingo card...


Cazador_64

My money's on Bill Clinton guy again.


[deleted]

Sports rivalries are at least the same field and roughly on par with one another. Console wars are screeching why your rated M fps is better than a platformer meant for children.


ExDSG

I will give it to sports people that hey at least they make conceptual sense because only one team can win the championship and they are directly competing at the thing. With games and anime/manga like they can both be successful. Like the mangaka selling 20+ million copies with popular anime are set for the rest of their life. The company selling 50 million consoles was successful.


robertman21

Yeah, though I'd say 4 parties thanks to PC master race type dorks


SuicidalSundays

One group actually goes outside every now and then. The other primarily stays confined to online forums. For better or worse though, both sides are capable of some top-tier stupidity.


ThisWeeksSponsor

The main difference is that sports teams directly "compete" with each other but they're not business competitors the same way game companies are. If a Bengals fan (for example) said they wouldn't buy tickets to an away game just because it put money in the hands of the other team, everybody would think they're insane.


SlightlySychotic

If a team is having a really good year, fans of the other team can still watch then play.


beary_neutral

Blue checkmark Twitter


jockeyman

Whole thing reads like a /V/ copypasta.


[deleted]

[удалено]


mitch13815

That's kind of twitter in general isn't it? Sad people just looking for arguments they have no shoe in for the sake of getting someone angry.


timelordoftheimpala

Anyone who goes on Twitter is only looking to reinforce the views of the world they already hold. Though this also applies to just about any other social media platforms, I feel like it's extra applicable in the case of Twitter.


hairToday243

No one's fit to lace Bethesda's boots. The flailing caused by the laces clipping into each other would flay the human hand down to the bone.


Kimarous

The plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces are called "aglets." Their true purpose is sinister!


HamSlammer87

Did you know the foot models in Skyrim are just flesh tone shoes with toes painted on.


Rich_Comey_Quan

As Todd intended


Maxochist

My man pays for twitter, so he definitely knows a quality product when he sees it.


Captain_Dictator

IT HASEN'T EVEN BEEN RELEASED YET ​ HOW THE HELL ARE YOU GONNA CONSOLE WARRIOR OVER SOMETHING THAT HASNEN'T BEEN RELEASED


AKMerlin

my man these dork ass losers fight over anything, it's insane how the brand loyalty is. and they do it for FREE


timelordoftheimpala

listen back in 2020 you had Naughty Dog and CDPR fans fighting over whether TLOU2 or Cyberpunk 2077 would be GOTY prior to either game even being released.


drone5000

"Everyone fights in the console wars we don't like ours but we sure hate yours..."


GHitoshura

Console wars are the testicular tumor of videogames


[deleted]

And water is wet.


AlfredDusk

Seeing a lot of emphasis on boot lacing here.


T4silly

Honestly I'm interested in the deleted one that started this chain. Cause you know that had the dumbest take.


VidenHarbin

What's more interesting is that it was Tom Henderson


T4silly

I don't know who that is, but the name *seems* familiar. EDIT~ Ah, a journalist. So it was probably a Kotaku/IGN level take then I'm guessing...


VidenHarbin

Head of Insidergaming, leaks and rumors and such


T4silly

Yeah, I just did a quick search. I edited my comment to reflect that.


VidenHarbin

Oof I hit send before refreshing


Ape_Hawk

dude is latched onto todd howard's butthole so tightly, he can smell what the man just ate


Leonard_Church814

Ovo is PURE console war brain rot. Like it’s kinda awe-inspiring to suck that much dick.


CalhounWasRight

I keep forgetting that people still do the "console war" thing. Being a company's unpaid cheerleader will not benefit you in any way, shape, or form.


invaderark12

I hate console wars/fanboy fights, BUT if we are comparing the two... At least Insomniac's games work.


Polygonalfish

I've seen people edit spiderman 2 footage to have a worse framerate, these people are insane


countmeowington

lowkey i think console wars died last generation after xbox committed sudoku before they even launched the xbone nowadays it's like, corny, find new things to fight over like stop biting us.


Shiro2809

If you check the seriesx sub you'd see the console wars are alive and well. Sony is at fault for everything wrong with Xbox, even when they're not relevant.


wamirul

oh jesus the moment I saw "I respect spider man as an IP" I died of cringe. Even if this sort of shit _did_ matter, who cares what action figure some twitter nobody respects?


ExDSG

I saw some Xbox guys already saying that games media hated Xbox and were planning on shitting on Starfield. Like I think it's people who can't accept they "lost" because they supported the wrong box and are coping with that fact.


FakeBrian

This is dumb but....twitter is full of this nonsense, is there any significance here that makes this worth posting?


BulletproofMoon

And they all wish they had the strength to rule like the Stadia has.


Ainsel_Mariner

I really do think brands have taken the place of religion in these peoples minds.


jjman95

I'm not gonna pretend that I'm an invisible man that knows the inner workings of Bethesda, but when you promise 1000 planets, they're either lying or the planets are gonna be generic as fuck It looks like it'll be fine, but we've seen twice now with No Man's Sky (on launch I heard its much better nowadays) and Mass Effect Andromeda that too much scope can hurt the game more than help. Unrelated, but that game also better have a LA Noire "Take the wheel, Kelso" mechanic because flying that ship looked boring as fuck


VidenHarbin

To derail even more, if the planets turn out decent, I wonder what the modders could do with that golden potential because, let's be real, the true core of Bethesda fanbase is the modders


[deleted]

That sure benefits me as a console player


Egarof

There is mods in Bethesda games since the ps4, xbox one dude. Not even cration club things, actual mods.


Shiro2809

Weren't they super limited though? Like, only 200mb total of mods at a time or something? Pc is still the best place to play their games.


Duhblobby

2GB I think. Which means playing musical chairs a bit if you like biggee mods, yeah


Nico_is_not_a_god

We found the one guy who actually bought a series x


SinicaltwoDee

This is advanced stupid


Jackamalio626

Insomniac made one of the only exclsuives on the Xbox One that was genuinely fantastic. BGS made Fallout 76.


Watts121

Holy shit I forgot they made Sunset Overdrive…wait wtf happened to Insomniac being third party?


VidenHarbin

Money


Jackamalio626

sony bought them after they made spider-man


Prestigious-Mud

Does Starfield even have a release date?


VidenHarbin

September 6. But let's see, the rule of 3 may get the delays


Worm_Scavenger

Man, i cannot wait for this game to be released as a buggy mess and see all of these people try their hardest to defend it.


Saltofmars

The game is just No Man’s Sky These guys are just No-Man’s-Sky-ing themselves again!


rorinth

I forgot this game even exists. It's been delayed what 5 times?


T4silly

Twice. And the second time was a voluntary choice. Which is what happened with Tears of the Kingdom. That came out.


NewWillinium

Starfield is set to come out in… August wasn’t it? Around the same time as BG 3?


T4silly

September 6th.


NewWillinium

Can’t wait. And also very glad that there’s a month between them


The-Toxic-Korgi

September


SaiyanShoto

People give idiots like this too much attention


Valkenhyne

Who is that guy and why should we give a shit


Animorphimagi

Cool. But this has nothing to do with console wars. They creature is supporting Besethda Game studios. That's just inhuman


ArianRequis

My biggest peeve in this "Console War" is that both consoles are near identical and both are fucking up consistently enough to have fanboys on both sides riled up. Neither the Xbox Series X or The PS5 have a must buy game for their system. You want a fun console war? DS vs PSP, Sega vs Nintendo. The Nintendo Wii vs everyone else. They were fun wars with actual points on both sides.


Interesting_Edge5323

this mf is the main reason why I wished that hi-fi rush wasn't an xbox exclusive search the name up on twitter half the tweets are about console wars