Console flame wars and why they wont end.

[indieinsd]

Below is interview with Aaron Greenburg of MS where he needles Sony about the poor year over year sales of the PS3 and PS2.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/new...hp?story=22833

Obviously taking pride in your company is great but who benefits from the console wars? Most of the fanboys have made up their mind. Why bother throwing out flame bait? Do press releases like this influence your customers from branching out and buying the competitors hardware/software?

Video Game blogs are another story. I totally understand why they throw out flame bait daily. Talking shi*t about each console drives traffic and page refreshes. You can almost count on it daily that Kotaku and Joystiq will throw a story like this out. But where does that end? Are places like 1up/IGN/etc going to start handing out sh*tty reviews just to drive traffic?

Hell I remember on the last episode of 1up Yours where Shane Bettenhausen (or someone else) was calling out Garnett Lee for always playing the devil's advocate to keep there conversations 'interesting'.

I think we are beginning to see a push back from the video game 'journalism' aspect by embracing all gaming no matter which console by the likes of Robert Ashley's 'A life well wasted' podcast and others. Even the PS Nation podcast regularly addresses their affinity for the Xbox360 without hesistation.

But I can't see the corporations stop fueling the fire. With the economy the way it is there is even more competition for our money and they don't want to share it.

Who do you blame for the console wars? The Companies? The Fanboys? Kotaku and Joystiq?