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Originally posted by KraftSLU

Now I am by no means condoning what microsoft put up, but I can kinda understand why they would do that. No, sony hasn't run any smear campaigns against xbox. Why? Because the fans do it for them... I cannot even begin to tell you how many ridiculously fanboying and slandering sites against the xbox I have run across... Here is just a few:<snip>

I note you state SONY have never ran a smear campaign like M$. I also note that you state PS2 fans do the smearing.

This is true...

but...

it's true of any console. I can remember the 8-bit home computer wars. In the UK it was mainly the Commodore 64 vs. Sinclair Spectrum. Owners of each would always trash-tallk the other machine. You know what? The same happened with the NES and the SEGA Master System....

Guess what? Same also happened with the Commodore Amiga and the Atari ST. Ditto for SNES/Genesis and ditto for PSX/Saturn (or N64 if you prefer).

My point: there will always be console flaming between owners - it's unavoidable because people have an intrinsic desire to defend that which they hold dear (be that consoles, sports teams, cars, running shoes, whatever...).

I can tolerate owners of console X flaming me if I own console Y. What I don't like is how the makers of console X are flaming not only console Y, but those who own console Y.

I don't ever recall Atari, Commodore, SEGA, SONY or Nintendo flaming other console/computer owners. It's simply typical of M$ and their sheer arrogance that they should become the first.

What M$ have done cannot be justified.

Edit: Kraft, by the way - I'm not suggesting you were condoning or justifying M$'s actions.

- S