An Open Letter to Fanboys

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You're not getting it lazy. There's nothing wrong with liking the kind of games Nintendo makes more than other companies. That's not a fanboy. A fanboy is someone who can ONLY like games released for their console of choice and then goes on to deride games released for the other systems and anyone who plays them. We're talking about the kind of people where if "Game X" came out for their system they would call it the best game ever but if it came out on "System Y" they wouldn't even give it a chance, maybe play it for 10 minutes and decide it's crap and not worth their time.

Tell me, is behaviour like this not immature and idiotic:

It makes perfect sense to insult a company's lineup one moment and at the same time hope that company will go third party and develop for your console the next.

A sequel on another console is a "rehash," while a sequel on your console is not; in fact, it's highly anticipated.

Innovation is what it's called when your console has a unique feature. Otherwise, it's called a gimmick.

So you see there's nothing wrong with liking Nintendo more than the other videogame companies because you prefer the type of games they make.* It is however immature to mock and deride someone because they chose a different system than you. There's nothing wrong with mocking and deriding someone who exhibits this kind of behaviour themselves though, they deserve it. :D


*Though I do suspect that at least part of the reason you prefer Nintendo is because of an emotional attachment to the company that formed early on and helped shape your taste in videogames.