To be or not to be a Fanboy...

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Well I would consider myself to be a fanboy of many things, like particular Movie Genre's and Playstation Brand (not a huge fan of other Sony products), but why am I a fanboy? What is a fanboy?

Why has the gaming communities gone all fanboy over the last few years, or have I just been out of the loop too long, I mean when I say I want the PS1, 2 & 3 to be successful do people who hate Sony or hate the Playstation brand say "ooohh you fanboy" I personally admit to being one so as to state my intentions of posting in an x-box thread so people can see where my point of view is coming from, so as I don’t get roped by mistake as either a very casual gamer or an X-box fanboy.

Is this state of affairs silly, or strange or even elitism, is it cool to be on the rite side of a console war, is it bad to be sitting on the fence at such times, do people lie when they get accused of being a fanboy? Why is it important to be on one side or the other? Isn’t the point of games, the actual software and not the hardware?

My gaming history goes back to seeing my dad and friends playing on the ZX Spectrum, my actual first gaming experience that I actually enjoyed was playing games on the Amiga 500+, then on to the Atari Jaguar then to the PS1 and to PS2, ive never owned a Nintendo console until the gamecube, and ive never owned a Sega machine at all, and never owned a MS X-Box either, so dose owning two out of the Playstation family make me a Playstation Fanboy?

My console owner ship has been based on quality of games and never the hardware, but when the Atari came into my possession, the games weren’t as good as the Playstation when that was released shortly after the Atari, this hit the pocket and I learnt a valuable lesson, that making the right choice in gaming can save lots of cash, either on software or hardware, so the PS1 & 2 seemed to offer the best gaming compared to rival companies, so my fanboyism is based on money and nothing more.

Is this why being a fanboy is important to people? Because if they purchase a console that they think will be the better, its important for them to defend it and encourage others to buy it, thus making the software companies make more and better games for that particular console?

Is the fanboy revolution just a way to evolve gaming? Or is it hurting the industry, due to people wanting more and more specific and ideal solutions, what’s going to happen if one side wins and the other loses, dose the loosing side go and make games for the winner? This has been the case for Sega & Atari, but there were always other companies to pick up where the losers left off, but what happens when the all out winner take the final % of the market and nobody’s left to drive competition, will the prices go up? Will the evolution of games consoles stop? Or will it evolve to something completely different.

Sorry for the long post but what are your feeling towards modern gaming attitudes, and do you think they are good or bad for the industry as a whole?
 
I guess my opinion of a fanboy is someone who has a half-blind faith in their favorite product, so much so that they choose to ignore or dismiss the fact that sometimes something might be better in some ways than "their favorite".

When it comes to gaming, I imagine opposing fanboyism balances out and doesnt have much affect on the industry as a whole. I have both a PS2 and Xbox, because I love both consoles, and there are some exclusive titles for each that I just gotta play!

GC doesnt have any exclusives that I really care for and I dont really like the controller, so thats why I dont have one. I admit, its the best priced console out right now, but for me it offers nothing I want that I cant get on another console. If it did, you bet I would have one of those too.

If anything, being a fanboy only hurts yourself, you could me missing out on something really cool and worth your time.
 
Fanboyism is the most stupid thing i know. It really is, is the ps2 has good game,s great, if the xbox has good games, great and so on, yeah the xbox has superior graphics but the os2 has the superior games, big deal? no, they both have faults, they both have bad games, they both have good games, some people may prefer ps2 for the fact its smaller and they have no room or something, some people may prefer an xbox for xbox live. I myself am an owner of both consoles, i play them both equally, and if for example a game comes out on both systems that i want, i will buy the xbox version, because 9 times out of 10 it will have slightly better graphics. Basically what i think of people who buy one console, simply because they are a fanboy to that product, is idiot. Buy the goddamm console for a reason, for a particular game, space reasons whatever it may be. Or ffs buy both and be happy. My mate for exmaple, bought a ps2, buys tonnes of games for it, aand i ask him if hes played forza and he goes no its ****ing ****, i mean wth? how do you know its **** if you havnt played it, "because its on xbox" and he doesnt have an xbox so how would he know if its bad? These people annoy me.

So there.:)
 
I'm not a fanboy of anything.



TreVoR fan for life "cough".
 
Really, I consider myself an American car fanboy, but not to the point where I curse out anyone who worships TVR's. :scared:

XBox and PS2 fanboys are irritating, though. I play both consoles, and they're both really good. There's games on each system that you really have to have.
 
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Fanboyism is the most stupid thing i know. It really is, is the ps2 has good game,s great, if the xbox has good games, great and so on, yeah the xbox has superior graphics but the os2 has the superior games, big deal? no, they both have faults, they both have bad games, they both have good games, some people may prefer ps2 for the fact its smaller and they have no room or something, some people may prefer an xbox for xbox live. I myself am an owner of both consoles, i play them both equally, and if for example a game comes out on both systems that i want, i will buy the xbox version, because 9 times out of 10 it will have slightly better graphics. Basically what i think of people who buy one console, simply because they are a fanboy to that product, is idiot. Buy the goddamm console for a reason, for a particular game, space reasons whatever it may be. Or ffs buy both and be happy. My mate for exmaple, bought a ps2, buys tonnes of games for it, aand i ask him if hes played forza and he goes no its ****ing ****, i mean wth? how do you know its **** if you havnt played it, "because its on xbox" and he doesnt have an xbox so how would he know if its bad? These people annoy me.

So there.:)
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Tell him, Steve-Dave!

Seriously, the fanboy attitude is annoying. I own both PS2 and XBox, but waited a while before getting the Xbox because the only game I feel I have to have is Gran Turismo. For me it isn't about the system it's about the games. I only got the Xbox because I liked Halo, and still then I won it through Mountain Dew last year. I wasn't going to spend a few hundred bucks just to play one game when I had so far not found any other exclusive Xbox games that I liked.

If I were to be called a fanboy of anything it would be Gran Turismo, but those hwo know me know that I will play any racing game and give it a try. I tried Forza and Enthusia. I hated Enthusia and Forza was good but I felt GT4's physics and car selection (my favorite part) were definitely superior. When they had an Xbox tent at the state fair I went in and saw Forza was the only racing game and played it insteasd of walking out because it sucks. So while I am a Gran Turismo fan I can still play other games instead of walking away from them thinking they suck because they aren't GT.

When it comes to the systems I will always get a Playstation first because of the GT series. Until something that beats GT out comes along (God forbid) I will always be accused of being a Playstation and GT fanboy, but those who know me well will know that isn't true. A fanboy will never be afraid that a competitive game like Forza might be better, he will think it sucks before it even launches.

Is a fanboy mentality good or bad? It's neither. In my experience fanboys are less than 25% of the gamers out there. Even if it was more there is a balance between each version. The only way a fanboy mentality is bad is if it keeps a sub-par product on the market, but with such a low amount of the market being true fanboys that will never happen. It kept Sega hanging on to the Dreamcast longer than they should have, but it also allowed Sega to survive as a succesful game producer, especially in sports games.

In all reality anyone calling anyone else a fanboy is using it because they cannot survive an intellectual debate and need an easy insult to escape. Label your opponent a fanboy and his arguments suddenly seem less valid for those who believe you.

EDIT: OK, so I am a UK basketball fanboy, but sports is a completely different thing. It is built around fanboys. However, I am realistic enough not to bet on the Louisville game this weekend because it will be too close to call.
 
Ok so this is where i step in,

I am well known around here for liking Honda - now what everybody likes to call anyone who likes or owns or talks about a Honda (mainly a Civic) is a fanboy and i get hit with comments like;

ZOMG When my VTEC kicks in i am gonna blow you away, and my fart cans and neon washer jets chrome licence plate, max power sun strip give me 300bhp!

It gets old, i admit loving honda's but im in no way a ricer, i love nice looking cars i hate bodykits and all plastic crap and 20" chromes or whatever! My point being most people on here judge you before you even have a chance to explain - as soon as you defend anything for whatever reason you are immediately a 'fanboy'!

Sometimes i dont express my point and post as i dont want to end up in an argument or to be called something i'm not.

Anyway my point is being a fanboy isnt necessarily a bad thing but in my situation alot of people choose not to like me because of something i like, and because of the reputation Civics have with being modded i feel like i cant talk about the car i love without being called a 'ricer' or 'fanboy'.
 
OMG you r!cer with your 20'' rims and fartcan!
 
194GVan
I guess my opinion of a fanboy is someone who has a half-blind faith in their favorite product, so much so that they choose to ignore or dismiss the fact that sometimes something might be better in some ways than "their favorite".

When it comes to gaming, I imagine opposing fanboyism balances out and doesnt have much affect on the industry as a whole. I have both a PS2 and Xbox, because I love both consoles, and there are some exclusive titles for each that I just gotta play!

GC doesnt have any exclusives that I really care for and I dont really like the controller, so thats why I dont have one. I admit, its the best priced console out right now, but for me it offers nothing I want that I cant get on another console. If it did, you bet I would have one of those too.

If anything, being a fanboy only hurts yourself, you could me missing out on something really cool and worth your time.
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I admit to being a fanboy of PS2 and American cars paticualarly GM cars but I still like foreign cars too. Those are the only two that come too mind right now.
 
Bee
Says a person who was stroking his Xbox yesterday on webcam... :rolleyes:
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Yeah well stop stroking your psp and i wont do that....and i didnt have access to anything else.
 
I agree, Fanboyism is a silly way of not playing games or enjoying somthing, I played on the X-Box and enjoyed some of the time, but i own a PS2 and would rarther play games on the console i own, than go out and buy a new console for only one or two games, but classing people as a fanboy just because they dont own a particular thing but own the opposing item is a little lame, what i dont get is the feeling of supiriority some people have towards other who have an opinion on a bit of plastic or a car or a place, when they alone probably only have one of them or have only experianced one thing, what going on?

The only reason i chose console is because its come to the fore front of the console war, there are even websites that go bye the name of blahh blahh fanboy.com, like GT_Fan2005 i have a friend who hates anything to do with sony he say and i quote "Sony just try and rip people off" but he loves MS and they can't do anything wrong in his eyes.

I do think that people who think like this lose out on alot of good things in life, not just in the games console sense, but having a one track mind, but this cant be a bad thing because if they enjoy what they get then thats all that matters, and where do we get the rite to tell them otherwise, is this just being a fanboy?
 
I don't deprive myself of anything cuz I'm a fanboy of sumthin. I'm a fanboy of PS2 but that's not what stopped me from gettin an X-Box. A little thing called lack of money made me have to decide between the two. I wen't with PS2 cuz I had a PS1 and enjoyed playin it very much and X-Box didn't have GT.
 
People around here say I'm a GM fanboy, which I'm not, I just know a lot about one thing and I happen to like GM products. However I'm not afraid to admit when a GM product sucks, which I have done in the past.

I see most automotive fanboys coming from the Nissan and Honda segments, they think that these companies can do no wrong.

Other fanboys I see around here: iPod's, of course consoles, and of course gran turismo.
 
I am totally a Fender Strat fanboy.

The best animal in the world is a duck. No discourse will be entered into about this, I am totally correct and everyone else is horribly wrong. :D

Its not bad to know what you like. Sure you can look like an ill-informed cockatoo, but if you don't care its fine. So long as you KNOW you're a fanboy about certain things, and have a certain level of self awareness regarding your behaviour, I don't think you can truly be a fanboy.

Anyone posting on this thread IS NOT a fanboy. Real fanboys would never admit to being a fanboy! Thats one of the basic rules of fanboydom!
 
James2097
The best animal in the world is a duck. No discourse will be entered into about this, I am totally correct and everyone else is horribly wrong. :D
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Hell yeah, they taste nice!
 
What I find most humorous is that, in regards to consoles, if you buy everything except one particular console, you're automatically labeled a fanboy of that console's main competitor.

For example, the last two generations of consoles, I've had Playstation, N64, Dreamcast, Playstation 2, and Gamecube. Not to mention several versions of Game Boy (a Nintendo product).

As you can see, there is only one console manufacturer missing from that list. As a result, I am continuously labelled a "Sony Fanboy". Even though I've owned more Nintendo products than I have Sony.

That seem right to you?
 
Thats my point Jedi, exactly why do some people class others by what they purchase, but also they will argue till the are blue in the face that somthing is better than another.

I personally want the 360 to do well so that the games stay low - ish and that so PS3 gets ports from it, but im not going to go out and buy a 360 just because it has a particular game that i want, the funds arnt there for such indulgence, i probably wont even have a HD Tv to run a PS3 at full glory on.
 
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My gaming history goes back to seeing my dad and friends playing on the ZX Spectrum, my actual first gaming experience that I actually enjoyed was playing games on the Amiga 500+, then on to the Atari Jaguar then to the PS1 and to PS2, **
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If i said i was a Jet Set Willy ( awesome platform game {s'ware} for the Sinclair Spectrum ) Fanboy, would i then be a Wrinkly Fanboy of the same league as your dad, who supposedly has matured out of it. ? .:rolleyes::p.
 
Someone mentioned IPOD fanboys which do exist, but i have also noticed the reverse i guess "Anything but IPOD fanboys." I just find it strange to see a fanboy war when there is only one real eastablished product. I had one antifanboy tell me that if you get a ipod you cant put music you illegally downloaded onto it which is false (i have one and i do have some songs i havent purchased) but he was hellbent on convincing me that any mp3 player was better even though they did the same things.

Oh well..... on topic i like the ps2 better than X box cause i like the controller better otherwise they are both cose enough taht it doesnt mateter
 
I'm dead set against iPods because in all honesty I think the iRiver is just as good and it's slightly cheaper. But I'm happy with my cheap Nike MP3 player.
 

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