I dunno, maybe I'm just an overspeculative ass, but it seems to me that, at least in the gaming category, society has turned into one great big competition between consoles, constantly warring over which one is better, which ones sucks, which is
really worth your money, etc. I've never been in such a society where such things matter so much to people.
And yet it all seems so normal to me. Is that wrong?
Well, let's look back, shall we? Back to, say, the PSOne. Maybe it was just me not tuning in enough, or the sheer lack of interest over the whole critical aspect of gaming, but it's almost as if there were a lot less fanboys back in that day. I had my PSOne, I had my games; I couldn't care less what Kevin Van'Ord on Gamespot had to say about Spyro the Dragon. Hell, I didn't even know Gamespot
existed back then. It was almost as if gamers were just that: gamers. There didn't seem like there
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