Like bro it’s a fucking toy, you would think that it’s a religion the way these dingleberries talk.
Every major game company is greedy and terrible, your favorite gamer shit isn’t any less mindless consumption-y than the gamer shit that you don’t like.
It sucks because the whole industry is shitty and instead of acknowledging that they distract from the real problems facing the industry by squabbling about which souless company is the most souless.
The same kind of people complain when game industry workers try to unionize.
I always assume it’s just children on Reddit that act like that… I hope.
I had the opposite experience. I remember being friends with someone with a SNES. We would play SNES games at his house and Genesis games at my house. Later on, someone would have an N64 while someone else would have a PS1.
Same. I don’t remember a single instance of kids discriminating based on console here. It’s ruralish so maybe access to gaming magazines and games media encouraged it more?