 Today at Nintendo Prime, we're going to talk about console wars fanboyism. Oh boy strap yourself in I expect to get a lot of backlash today So what brings this topic to the forefront? Isn't actually anything to do with Nintendo per se and actually has to do with Phil Spencer Who runs the Xbox division at Microsoft and in the past and over his history He's always been vocally against fanboyism and against console wars He feels that as consumers you should just play games and enjoy them on whatever platform you own, right? There shouldn't be this big hubbub Over, you know, who has the best platform who has the best games who has the best exclusives Reality is we're all consumers and we all play games to enjoy them And that's that's totally true of us nintendo fans, right? We we choose nintendo games Primarily over other games out there because we enjoy them we have fun It doesn't matter if someone thinks they look like crap or if they complain about no anti-aliasing or blah blah blah It's not in 4k. We enjoy the games we have and I have no problem with people who enjoy other types of games as well You know the people who love call of duty the people who want 4k gaming and virtual reality There's nothing wrong with any of these spectrums, but there is something wrong with fans And as I said, this might upset some people because I'm sure we have some fanboys that follow us here at nintendo prime Who either are big fanboys of zelda big fanboys of nintendo and I almost hate the word fanboy because it is derogatory it implies an unhinged love for a specific game or a specific company that Makes you unable to appreciate gaming on the whole and I feel like this needs to be addressed at times because fanboyism is rampant and Ironically i'm talking about this topic because a channel called review tech usa brought it to the forefront about The words of phil Spencer put up on twitter in a recent response to some words He had to say about a game called little knights, I believe And little knights is a multi-platform game and he basically congratulated that game for getting good review scores and you know saying hey, you know good job and Like this one guy responded to him is that horizon zero flaws It seems like the team xbox and phil are really pumping this game even though it's a multi-plat It's also strained that metacritics six points higher on xbox one than playstation 4 Which phil Spencer replied with i'll never feel strange promoting great games You should play it on the platform you own Very good point and the reason why I said it's strange that a review tech usa brought it up Is because he mentioned that channels that are specific to sony specific to microsoft or like specific to nintendo are generally fanboy channels and I mean i'm not ashamed to say that i love nintendo the reason that we have this channel going is because of my love for nintendo But as people have noted, especially after I put up the why the way you failed video I am not afraid to criticize nintendo. I am not afraid to realize they are not perfect And yes, I do game on other platforms. I own an xbox one s I own a pc capable of high-end gaming I own a playstation 3 not a playstation 4 yet. I probably will buy a playstation 4 someday I have a 3ds. I had a veto for a little bit. I had a psp in the past I am a gamer, right? I don't identify myself as that nintendo gamer even though I love nintendo games and i'm passionate enough about them to run a nintendo channel reality is that I am maybe one of the most unbiased nintendo fans out there Because I do I don't just walk the walk. I talk the talk, you know, I talk the talk and I walk the walk I should say So I don't just say that other platforms have good games. I play those games. I know how good they are I have the ability to enjoy games that aren't on nintendo's platform And in many ways, that's why I want to see so many multi-platform games come to nintendo switch I want madden to come to the nintendo switch that way I don't have to buy it on xbox one because I would love to have it in a portable mode that I can Also slap on my tv. I feel like that would be a superior experience of madden for me But I do own other systems that I can play it on now I'm getting back into what phil spencer had to say here back in october He had a really long thing Talking about the distaste towards the negativity of other gaming platforms And here's what phil spencer said and I don't I've been vocal about that as well I'll turn it around now like when recore came out and there were some of the lower scores that were given I would have playstation fans tweet me happy that recore wasn't getting great review scores from some outlets I just thought it was such a negative thing for our industry for somebody to be gleeful That somebody gave a game a review that was lower than what the team expected And I don't just think that about that in terms of the games that we build I can look at hello games in no man's sky I've known Sean Murray for years and I said I want them to be successful with the games that the industry builds The games industry is getting bigger and better as more people enjoy playing games And I also think about the teams behind these games And these are people who spend years of their lives so committed to the art form of building games And then when it comes out for somebody to kind of fold into uh, My console is better than your console in a very petty way. I find it completely distasteful And he's not I mean Phil Spencer Is 100 correct here? And I want to swing this around and apply to nintendo because We as nintendo fans have a tendency to tell our system is greater than your system The nintendo switch is vastly superior to the 3ds and It's vastly superior to whatever the veto was trying to do and oh It's way better than the cross play that playstation had with the playstation 4 and the veto the playstation 3 and the veto And that's fine. That's great. I'm glad that you guys love your switches. I'm glad you loved your we use your nintendo game cubes Your we your ds like it's great. I love those platforms as well But there's nothing wrong with other platforms that do their thing Oftentimes I see nintendo fans come out and this is the most common argument I see And and every time I post like a video about an unreal engine remastering of a game that a fan creates or whatever Someone there's always without doubt someone in the comment section will say yeah Well, you know graphics aren't everything that's not what matters in gaming It's like that's how it matters to you in gaming We need to we need to clarify here that there is no wrong way to enjoy video games If some people enjoy video games just because they look gorgeous That's nothing wrong with that and there's nothing wrong with people who want say an xbox scorpio or a playstation 4 pro Or a high-end gaming pc because they want to experience games in the highest possible visual fidelity They can with the best performance possible whether it's 60 fps or 100 fps Whatever the case may be uh with 4k resolution or there's 8k resolution out there There's no like an apple monitor that has a 5k resolution like it's okay for people to want to experience that and enjoy it and Just because you might play games or I might play games or you know Joe schmo in the corner might play games for different reasons It doesn't mean that people that do enjoy high graphic fidelity are wrong for enjoying it and for them No, the nintendo switch is not going to provide them the gaming experience that they want and that's okay Just like it's okay for people who like to switch to enjoy a different gaming experience than those that might enjoy the xbox scorpio And yes, it is possible to be someone like me who enjoys the whole gambit of video games, right? I'm a gamer I'm not just a nintendo gamer or a zelda fan. I am a gamer That's why I have a high end gaming pc Well, technically I have it to edit video, but I can't play high end games on it That's why i'm excited for the xbox scorpio because there absolutely should be a home console on the market pushing the boundaries of power and graphic Capabilities that should exist. In fact nintendo used to be part of that power battle They were doing it with the gamecube So nintendo has actually done this in the past and I loved what the playstation video was trying to do in pushing The hardware capabilities of a handheld device. That's exciting. There always should be someone pushing for that leading edge But that doesn't mean that that's what every company needs to do That doesn't mean that playstation 4 pro now needs a playstation pro plus thrown out there That's just as powerful as the scorpio. That's not to say that nintendo needs a switch plus that now Is just as powerful as a as a base playstation 4 nintendo doesn't need to follow what microsoft and sony are doing They can go their own path and provide a unique experience that hits with a different type of consumer and there's nothing wrong with that And I feel like as fans we tend to get tied up in trying to justify our fandom, right? We've been attacked by other fans in the past as a nintendo fan I could tell you i've been attacked by people who are fans of xbox and playstation And even gaming pc's i've been attacked many many times over for my fandom of nintendo And I always thought it was funny because i'm also fans of the stuff that they have going on as well So it's not like I don't enjoy what they're what they have going on or don't enjoy the leading edge of video games and virtual reality Although i'm not really a big fan of virtual reality Whatever reality is that I enjoy games and I feel like all of you guys out there enjoy games And we need to stop being so judgmental so fanboy like in saying that We are better than they are because our games of higher reviews at breath of the wild Proves that the switch is the best video game console out there because it's one of the highest review games of all time Ha ha ha beat horizon Horizon sucks horizon doesn't suck it factually does not suck horizon zero dawn is a very very good game But as nintendo fans we feel like we have to justify Uh breath of the wilds, you know rating or justify our fandom of nintendo and what are we justifying it for? We all that matters when we play video games is that we have a good time, right? I can love a game like poo you poo you tetris and you guys absolutely hate it Or you can get frustrated by as some people pointed out in the last time I put up a video that had poo You poo you tetris in it you can be frustrated by my lack of skills at the game and that's okay Because you're not the one playing it I am and I'm the one enjoying myself playing it It doesn't matter to me how good I am at the game as long as I'm having fun And that would be even true if you guys watch me play breath of the wild some things I look really really good at other things I look like a scrub and that's okay because I'm just having fun I don't necessarily care if I'm the greatest breath of the wild player in the world And that's kind of the way we we have to take a step back sometimes from our fandom because as much as I am invested in nintendo I mean in a recent video when we hit 21,000 likes or 21,000 subscribers I showed off that I have a pretty decent switch a game collection. And that's just what I have physically. I have some more uh digitally as well, but You know, I obviously I'm more invested in nintendo than other companies But that doesn't mean that I feel like other companies are wrong for doing what they do or that I feel like we need to You know put one game on a pedestal and then bash every other game that might be similar to it As an example the breath of the wild versus horizon debates that have happened out there um I feel like people should I feel like Phil Spencer in a way that people should just enjoy games on whatever platform they happen to own And there doesn't need to be this constant Beating across the bush or beating in the head or throwing people over the bridge because oh my multi-player game Performs better on this system than that system or uh, you know My exclusive is better than your exclusive or my hardware has more capabilities than your hardware Like oh man, the xbox 1s is a 4k blu-ray player and the PlayStation 4 pro doesn't have a 4k blu-ray player Oh, no the xbox 1s is better or all the switch is completely portable and has cartridges and cartridges load faster than disks And you don't have to do game installs so the switch is better Like it doesn't really matter at the end of the day What matters is that we as consumers aren't enjoying the products we have I as a nintendo fan thoroughly enjoy my nintendo switch. It is providing to me exactly what I want from nintendo Giving me a way to play games that I previously did not have in such a convenient form And I'm still getting other ways I want to play games from other platform holders And I'm fortunate enough to own other systems to allow me to enjoy those games as well when I can afford them Of course gaming is still a very expensive hobby Um, and I kind of blew all my recent budget on switch games So I you know, I'm a little behind the ball on some of the other multi-platform games out there Uh, and it's true that I want all my multi-platform games to come to switch because I think the switch Provides that portable feeling that other consoles don't provide and I feel like a lot of third party games would benefit from that Uh, and you can see by some people who are still excited for skyrim Okay, a game that came out five years ago a game that was remastered last year People are excited for it on switch because they could take skyrim on the go Uh and not have to have like a gaming laptop set up to do it. So Anyways, this is the pen and ruffle jantz from nintendo prime Just letting you know that these fanboy wars these console wars. They're dumb They're stupid We're all gamers and we all play games for our own reasons and all that matters is that we enjoy them All right Who cares if someone else enjoys games for a different reason you do or if so-and-so Has to make themselves feel better about something they bought or something They're invested in by bashing something that they haven't bought and they're not invested in Let them have it. Let them let them act like idiots. It's okay We don't have to stoop down to that level. No fan has to stoop down to that level We should rise above and if there's nothing else, I hope to accomplish at nintendo prime with our fan base I hope it's one that rises above the noise right that we are not so Consumed by nintendo that we can't recognize that there are other good things going on in gaming too and other good games That nintendo doesn't have It's okay Everything will be okay I promise So if you like this video, you know what to do if you dislike it. Well, you know hit that dislike button Otherwise if you want more videos like this and other content, please subscribe And I will catch you guys on the flip side