Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Asian tech support]

They named it Xbox 360 precisely because they needed it to be called 3 to go head-to-head with the PlayStation 3. They called it Xbox One because they thought people would call it “The One,” which means people would suddenly just forget about the PlayStation 4 since it was not The One. If you think that’s dumb, well, they thought packaging the Kinect with it was a good idea too.

I thought they called it the Xbox One because it was supposed to be a gay all-in-one home entertainment shitbox.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

IDk. I think their general naming conventions are dumb (360, One, Series), but I think the "X" and "S" designations are pretty obvious, especially compared to "Pro" and "Slim"

They should've just called the Xbone the 720, and then called the Series X/S the 1440. Just go with times 2 as a naming principle.

 

[The Foxtrot]

I thought they called it the Xbox One because it was supposed to be a gay all-in-one home entertainment shitbox.

No, that's the GayStation 3Some!

They should've just called the Xbone the 720, and then called the Series X/S the 1440. Just go with times 2 as a naming principle.

I knew a lot of guys, and when I was a wee lad I was one too, that genuinely thought the next Xbox console would be called the 720.

 

[Ser Prize]

The new GOW is nice and all. Well maybe just the first. Ragnarok is a muddled mess in my opinion. But I kinda miss the naked chicks from the old series. Yeah its a video game but whoever worked on them had mad talent. Especially the ones in Ascension right before they removed it from the series. From an purely aesthetic point, you don't really see art like that anymore.

I understand now that GOW has evolved into a dad game this might not be the best place for that sort of thing anymore. But surely that doesn't mean the entire Western AAA and AA industry needs to boycott making female character models that don't look like shit from now on right?

Can't have hot chicks in AAA or AA games anymore. Might upset the danger hairs who roam twitter.

 

[BallsOfaKiwi]

Largely because Microsoft and Sony shat the bed royally, and Nintendo's had the market cornered on Handhelds for years now. The Switch is terribly underpowered, and ports from other consoles show it. But because it's primarily for kids, and Nintendrones will buy anything Nintendo puts out, it's doing better than it should have.

For example, Nintendrones will gush about playing "Skyrim on the go!" and how that makes the Switch the greatest console ever, but the Switch version is quite literally the worst way to play Skyrim...and it's not even the 64-bit re-release, the Switch version runs the original 32-bit that launched on PC/360/PS3.
And it runs that version worse than the PS3...may I be forgiven for uttering their name aloud, but Kotaku released both an article and a YT video demonstrating the performance and looks of (at the time) all the different versions of Skyrim (OG PC/360/PS3, re-release PC/XB1/PS4, and Switch), and it's painfully clear that the Switch version runs worse than the PS3 release of Skyrim, and it looks to be on-par with the PC release on the lowest graphical preset.

This is pretty much true for every game released on the Switch that wasn't specifically made for it, they have to gimp the fuck out of the graphics and cut huge corners to get a game to run(ish) on the Switch...but Nintendrones don't care, as long as they can play a game "On The Go!", they're soyjaking 24/7.

You're an adult man still fighting the console wars, are you winning yet, son?

Its a handheld so of course it's going to underperform compared to the other consoles, its consoles actually get delivered in the number that will be sold instead of creating fake hype through artificial scarcity or bottlenecks in production, its still cheap and accessible.

It's also funny that you're noting that a certain console that plays games is for "kids" as if that's a bad thing. I haven't bought a console in my life sine the gameboy/the 8bits but I always felt that Nintendo was pretty chill to its customers. I think you even got free internet to one of their consoles. People mention expensive gameboy games but I bought mine mostly used or pirated, lol. It was also super easy to exchange games with each other and they held up so much better than CDs. I miss those old cartridges.

At the very least its far better than sitting glued to their mobile phones on tiny fucking screens that they mess up each time they are playing the most predatory games man has devised.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

No, that's the GayStation 3Some!

Fitting that the PS3's starting lineup had MGS4. That title was more like a movie than a game. It's like watching a movie with some game bits sprinkled in.

I knew a lot of guys, and when I was a wee lad I was one too, that genuinely thought the next Xbox console would be called the 720.

360, 720, 1440, 2880. Xbox names that should've been used.

You're an adult man still fighting the console wars, are you winning yet, son?

The console wars should have ended when Nintendo decisively beat Sega. Then they won the casual market with the Wii, and they won today's console wars when their console was the only one that wasn't a glorified PC hooked up to a television.

 

[The Foxtrot]

You're an adult man still fighting the console wars, are you winning yet, son?

No, I'm just sick of Nintendrones being CONSOOMERZ. Only consoles I mess with these days are my PS2 and XB360. Mostly, I game on PC.

Quit being an obnoxious faggot wherever you go on this site.

Fitting that the PS3's starting lineup had MGS4. That title was more movie that game. It's like watching a movie with some game bits sprinkled in.

MGS as a franchise is extremely overrated, and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance proves that the franchise is better off without Kojima being the Japanese analogue to Western video game "writers" that just couldn't make it into Hollywood.

 

[BallsOfaKiwi]

No, I'm just sick of Nintendrones being CONSOOMERZ. Only consoles I mess with these days are my PS2 and XB360. Mostly, I game on PC.

Quit being an obnoxious faggot wherever you go on this site.

99% of my negative reactions are you and a handful of other retards in this thread freaking out when shown a mirror. Group think drones that come to a site like this and then turn it into a Reddit anyway, lol, with safe-spaces and circlejerks.

So they are mindlessly buying what Nintendo sells them eh?
But you're also saying that Nintendo had the market cornered, so which one is it?


More social dissonance. At least try to make a coherent argument that conflicts with itself.
Steamdeck is a new thing and besides that most people who buy a Nintendo console like the exclusives there, the other games are just a bonus for them.

 

[The Last Stand]

I barely understand Xbox's naming convention. Last gen was Xbox One but there was an Xbox One S, right? I have no idea, guessing it's the Pro model equivalent.

AFAIK, MS's naming convention with their consoles is to encompass them as "all in one entertainment centers." Actually, Xbox 360 has its name because Xbox 2 would've made it sound inferior to the PlayStation THREE.

, but "Xbox One X" and "Xbox Series X" are fine is itself one of the most confusing branding decisions I've ever heard of.

Series S|X is a better naming convention than Xbox One.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

The console wars should have ended when Nintendo decisively beat Sega.

From what I remember reading it was pretty close early on, and then SNES pulled ahead because they were still entirely focused on SNES while Sega was dividing their resources on Genesis & their next-gen system, the Saturn (maybe the add-ons too?).

If Nintendo had shifted focus to the N64 in '95 too instead of '96 then I think the numbers could've looked different, though they'd still have been ahead.

Series S|X is a better naming convention than Xbox One.

They're both awful, I can hardly choose what's worse.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

Microsoft figured out how to skip Windows 9, but couldn't figure out how to synchronize with Sony console numbers?

 

[The Foxtrot]

99% of my negative reactions are you and a handful of other retards in this thread freaking out when shown a mirror. Group think drones that come to a site like this and then turn it into a Reddit anyway, lol, with safe-spaces and circlejerks.

Wrong.

So they are mindlessly buying what Nintendo sells them eh?

Yes.

But you're also saying that Nintendo had the market cornered, so which one is it?

Nintendo has had the lion's share of the handheld market ever since the PS Vita came out. Really, even before then, the only handheld that really contested Nintendo's control was the PSP.
Most of the users of handhelds are also children, which is why the Nintendo handhelds (Switch included) have always been largely geared towards children or "general audiences". Nintendo knows where the steady money is at.

More social dissonance. At least try to make a coherent argument that conflicts with itself.

This sentence is nonsense that makes no sense.

Steamdeck is a new thing

The Steamdeck also costs over 3x as much, isn't immediately available on a store shelf, isn't advertised that much, and is obviously geared more towards dedicated gamers. It's very much not a "pick up and play" system. The Switch is, which is why my younger family members enjoy their Switches.

and besides that most people who buy a Nintendo console like the exclusives there, the other games are just a bonus for them.

No. As I said before, the vast majority of Switch users are children, followed by "general audiences" (AKA just casual gamers), then the hardcore Nintendrone fanboys.
The "exclusives" are typical Nintendo games: inoffensive, competently made, feature-complete and bug-free casual experiences that you can enjoy for easy entertainment and escapism. They aren't innovative or cutting edge, they're not really unique, and you've likely played something better.

 

[The Last Stand]

Nintendo had the right idea with naming their first 3D console after the amount of bits it can handle.

99% of my negative reactions are you and a handful of other retards in this thread freaking out when shown a mirror. Group think drones that come to a site like this and then turn it into a Reddit anyway, lol, with safe-spaces and circlejerks.

So they are mindlessly buying what Nintendo sells them eh?
But you're also saying that Nintendo had the market cornered, so which one is it?


More social dissonance. At least try to make a coherent argument that conflicts with itself.
Steamdeck is a new thing and besides that most people who buy a Nintendo console like the exclusives there, the other games are just a bonus for them.

If you don't like video games, why are you participating in a thread about video games? That's like if I start bashing anime threads and I don't even care for it.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

As I said before, the vast majority of Switch users are children, followed by "general audiences" (AKA just casual gamers), then the hardcore Nintendrone fanboys.

A common sentiment is Switch works great as a companion to PC/PS/XB, so there's a 4th group in there. I'm in that camp, and don't consider myself a Nintendrone, I think some of their shit sucks (recent Zeldas & Fire Emblems, for example).

 

[ZipDisk]

Didn't Microsoft get threaty about "Xbone" to all the bloggers?

Testicle boy needs a thread slap ASAP.

 

[BallsOfaKiwi]

Nintendo had the right idea with naming their first 3D console after the amount of bits it can handle.

If you don't like video games, why are you participating in a thread about video games? That's like if I start bashing anime threads and I don't even care for it.

Why are you being triggered and negrating someone like a Reddit pleb for disagreeing on a stance about Video gamIes with you and a few others instead of debating that person with a modicum of civility in a thread that's about unpopular opinions?

Beyond a couple of posts where I'm just making fun of you people, nothing has been about not liking video games. - Granted this has increased as some replies have become more and more absurd, lol.

It started out about playing video games in moderation, that video gaming has its time and place and perhaps to a degree an age, when that is and so on. This last point was just saying that there's nothing wrong about liking Nintendo Switch, as opposed to your fam there Foxtrot calling Nintendo gamers specifically all sorts of things in an incoherent rant.

Yes.(They are mindless consumers)

Holy shit, how can you be so thick? Have you ever revised any belief you've held in your life?

You're arguing against yourself even as you're replying to me.
You're admitting that the Steam Deck costs 3x more and is geared toward an other audience AND that Nintendo has the market cornered.


Meaning that the people who buy Nintendo Switch have no other alternative (even if you disregard the legitimate reasons for why Nintendo is a decent choice for some people)

- And yet you're calling them mindless consumers, "kids" that aren't thinking or what not.


THEY DONT HAVE A CHOICE ACCORDING TO YOURSELF?!

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

If Nintendo had shifted focus to the N64 in '95 too instead of '96 then I think the numbers could've looked different, though they'd still have been ahead.

Doubt, Nintendos speciality was the library not the hardware, hardware innovation became sonys schtick till around 2010 when the pc became more capable of both immense backward compatibility and better power than contemporary consoles. In the 90s people were more focused on hardware and specs than library quality. Library quality is something we focus on now (partially why nintenfags are more than sonyfags) cause hardware and specs is a dead end, graphical innovation is practically done for. Since Nintendo fucked the hardware, Dev's went to enrich the psx library and to this day the psx has the best library of that generation. Nintendo later tried to fix it with the GameCube, GC is more powerful than the ps2, but they couldn't entice devs to shift. Yahtzee made a great video about the capcom 5 which was the capcom Nintendo partnership for the GameCube. They then beat Sony with the Wii library cause the Wii predated the PS3 and was more accessible. Point being it was a transitory period and people focused on hardware, old school game companies like Nintendo and sega were focused on game quality not hardware while Sony and Microsoft focused on hardware, that didn't help them in the short run but did in the long run considering now the switch has the best library among contemporary consoles excluding backwards compatibility. The entire console wars in a nutshell, when you peel back the layers, is about hardware quality vs feature/game quality, it was never about brand loyalty or whatever the fuck.

 

[The Foxtrot]

A common sentiment is Switch works great as a companion to PC/PS/XB, so there's a 4th group in there. I'm in that camp, and don't consider myself a Nintendrone, I think some of their shit sucks (recent Zeldas & Fire Emblems, for example).

I don't hate Nintendo or the Switch. I hate the rabid fanboy-ing surrounding it.

that didn't help them in the short run but did in the long run considering now the switch has the best library among contemporary consoles excluding backwards compatibility.

That, and Switch games, especially 1st Party titles, ship feature complete and are competently made without shit tons of bugs and glitches. You know when you drop $60 for a Switch cartridge, you're getting the physical game and all the content it offers in one transaction, unlike Soynoy or Micro$oft. That also has made two guys I know buy a Switch.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

That, and Switch games, especially 1st Party titles, ship feature complete and are competently made without shit tons of bugs and glitches. You know when you drop $60 for a Switch cartridge, you're getting the physical game and all the content it offers in one transaction, unlike Soynoy or Micro$oft. That also has made two guys I know buy a Switch.

Lack of feature complete games is a new phenomenon. It bled over from the pc market in the mid 2010s after Sony started doing the stuff pc devs did, stuff like dlcs and live updates which existed in pc games since the late 90s early 2000s in the form of expansion discs and steam updates. I don't think it's a fair metric to consider currently, it is becoming more relevant but it needs another year or two to be considered fair. Also consider regional differences cause switch games are primarily from japan and everything else is from the us nowadays, not like in the 90s when most console games were from Japan and all pc games were from the us/Europe.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Doubt, Nintendos speciality was the library not the hardware

True, that's always been their strong point, but that's the thing, if they released N64 alongside Saturn then their SNES output would've been weaker. Instead Saturn was out in '94 in Japan, meanwhile N64 wasn't out til '96, and went all out on SNES, having a pretty badass output from '94-'96, which certainly pushed consoles.

Again, not saying Sega would have won the 4th gen, it just likely would've been a bit closer. Could be wishful thinking since I'd like to see Sega still making consoles.

I don't hate Nintendo or the Switch. I hate the rabid fanboy-ing surrounding it.

I understand, I don't like fanboy shit either and was never much into console war stuff, even as a kid. It's only as PS & XB have grown woke that I've become more pro-Nintendo/anti-PS/XB, out of sheer spite.