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Am I the only conscientous objector in the current much touted 'console wars'?
The foot-soldiers in the battles between X-box, PS2 and Gamecube are fighting a war that they can't win. Wars of words between owners of the three main consoles merely distract from the actual point of all this - the games...
..and will you all still be fighting when the X-box 5, PS 7 and Gamecube 3 are on the shop shelves??? What is the point?
The three consoles are all pretty much affordable now. All three have their own strengths and weaknesses, and deciding which one to buy (if you cannot afford to buy all three) is merely a personal preference.
If I had the money, I'd buy a Gamecube. But I'm not going to get into any slanging match with X-box and PS2 owners, or put them down in any way...
...and all this battling between console owners merely creates casualties in the console war; shell-shocked gamers who get the shakes whenever anyone says the phrase 'polygon count'...
Personally, I don't care if they court-martial me. I refuse to fight. I'll be a conscientous objector in these console wars and sit here with my first-generation, breeze-block style gameboy and play Tetris...and have a whole lot of fun.
Give peace a chance!
Paul (The Playman) Harries
The foot-soldiers in the battles between X-box, PS2 and Gamecube are fighting a war that they can't win. Wars of words between owners of the three main consoles merely distract from the actual point of all this - the games...
..and will you all still be fighting when the X-box 5, PS 7 and Gamecube 3 are on the shop shelves??? What is the point?
The three consoles are all pretty much affordable now. All three have their own strengths and weaknesses, and deciding which one to buy (if you cannot afford to buy all three) is merely a personal preference.
If I had the money, I'd buy a Gamecube. But I'm not going to get into any slanging match with X-box and PS2 owners, or put them down in any way...
...and all this battling between console owners merely creates casualties in the console war; shell-shocked gamers who get the shakes whenever anyone says the phrase 'polygon count'...
Personally, I don't care if they court-martial me. I refuse to fight. I'll be a conscientous objector in these console wars and sit here with my first-generation, breeze-block style gameboy and play Tetris...and have a whole lot of fun.
Give peace a chance!
Paul (The Playman) Harries
Am I the only conscientous objector in the current much touted 'console wars'?
The foot-soldiers in the battles between X-box, PS2 and Gamecube are fighting a war that they can't win. Wars of words between owners of the three main consoles merely distract from the actual point of all this - the games...
..and will you all still be fighting when the X-box 5, PS 7 and Gamecube 3 are on the shop shelves??? What is the point?
The three consoles are all pretty much affordable now. All three have their own strengths and weaknesses, and deciding which one to buy (if you cannot afford to buy all three) is merely a personal preference.
If I had the money, I'd buy a Gamecube. But I'm not going to get into any slanging match with X-box and PS2 owners, or put them down in any way...
...and all this battling between console owners merely creates casualties in the console war; shell-shocked gamers who get the shakes whenever anyone says the phrase 'polygon count'...
Personally, I don't care if they court-martial me. I refuse to fight. I'll be a conscientous objector in these console wars and sit here with my first-generation, breeze-block style gameboy and play Tetris...and have a whole lot of fun.
Give peace a chance!
Paul (The Playman) Harries
The foot-soldiers in the battles between X-box, PS2 and Gamecube are fighting a war that they can't win. Wars of words between owners of the three main consoles merely distract from the actual point of all this - the games...
..and will you all still be fighting when the X-box 5, PS 7 and Gamecube 3 are on the shop shelves??? What is the point?
The three consoles are all pretty much affordable now. All three have their own strengths and weaknesses, and deciding which one to buy (if you cannot afford to buy all three) is merely a personal preference.
If I had the money, I'd buy a Gamecube. But I'm not going to get into any slanging match with X-box and PS2 owners, or put them down in any way...
...and all this battling between console owners merely creates casualties in the console war; shell-shocked gamers who get the shakes whenever anyone says the phrase 'polygon count'...
Personally, I don't care if they court-martial me. I refuse to fight. I'll be a conscientous objector in these console wars and sit here with my first-generation, breeze-block style gameboy and play Tetris...and have a whole lot of fun.
Give peace a chance!
Paul (The Playman) Harries
The Playman wrote:
> Am I the only conscientous objector in the current much touted
> 'console wars'?
No, you're just mature :)
Console wars are just a teen identity crisis thing. A bit like Reebok vs Nike. If all your mates have Nikes, then the chances are you'll get a pair too. But then you change school and discover that there's a group of kids that wear Reeboks and you feel left out of their group, but that's OK because there's another group of kids that you get on with who just happen to wear Nikes. So you still feel part of a group.
But then one of the guys with the Reeboks starts getting off with the best looking 6th form girl in the school, and you feel Nike have let you down and consider changing. But then one of your mates starts dating a girl who also wears Nikes, so you feel normal again.
I've always been a Sonyboy, as well as a Segafan, but never a Ninty. This doesn't mean that I have to exclude Nintys every chance I get. It's just they're so easy to wind up because they're still going through that identity crisis thing. XBox owners are harder to wind up because they're generally past the identity crisis stage of their life (that's a huge generalisation though).
I was one of the lucky ones, I never had an identity crisis because I was happy with my flip-flops.
> Am I the only conscientous objector in the current much touted
> 'console wars'?
No, you're just mature :)
Console wars are just a teen identity crisis thing. A bit like Reebok vs Nike. If all your mates have Nikes, then the chances are you'll get a pair too. But then you change school and discover that there's a group of kids that wear Reeboks and you feel left out of their group, but that's OK because there's another group of kids that you get on with who just happen to wear Nikes. So you still feel part of a group.
But then one of the guys with the Reeboks starts getting off with the best looking 6th form girl in the school, and you feel Nike have let you down and consider changing. But then one of your mates starts dating a girl who also wears Nikes, so you feel normal again.
I've always been a Sonyboy, as well as a Segafan, but never a Ninty. This doesn't mean that I have to exclude Nintys every chance I get. It's just they're so easy to wind up because they're still going through that identity crisis thing. XBox owners are harder to wind up because they're generally past the identity crisis stage of their life (that's a huge generalisation though).
I was one of the lucky ones, I never had an identity crisis because I was happy with my flip-flops.
personally it just bores me *oooooh you got a ps2 you suck xbox is sooooo much powerful* and? that's supposed to bother me how? I've got a ps2 as it's got the games i like to suit my needs on it and has got a pretty darn good autumn/winter release scheudle. I can't be bothered going around slagging off others consoles seeing as i'm too busy playing my console and having a life. Who cares what the others are playing you've got your console so why not just play that and be quiet.
good post mate totally agree with you
good post mate totally agree with you
I take it all back.