It's funny how the opinions of the tech community ebb and flow like the tides. Months ago, people were touting HD-DVD to the point of fanboyism, while bashing Sony for the "mistake" of "forcing" people to buy Blu-Ray in its PS3 (by the way, take a look at the sales charts this week), and its supporters for various levels of "ignorance." Now, on the other hand, the boards are filled with people singing Sony's praise.
This, of course, could be for two reasons, (1) because the HD-DVD supporters in question simply aren't commenting (for obvious reasons), or (2) people are simply backing the winner to save face.
Of course, I could be totally wrong, and totally a jerk for stating the obvious trend; and of course, this is not global. A closer reading of the boards still shows some animosity; but it's so striking and drastic a change that it's worth noting.
I'd love to see the comment histories of some of the posters in order to test my theory. In fact, I'll do that as soon as this is over. In the meantime, I've obviously subjected myself to much deeper scrutiny. Have at it.
Lastly, it's worth noting that this is not an "I told you so" kind of email due to my support of Blu-Ray and the PS3 (see my comments for my reasons). Again, I'm simply calling attention to the icky phenomenon that is only being a fan when your [insert major sport here] team is winning.
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Gilbert Tang @ Feb 16th 2008 10:47AM
It's funny how the opinions of the tech community ebb and flow like the tides. Months ago, people were touting HD-DVD to the point of fanboyism, while bashing Sony for the "mistake" of "forcing" people to buy Blu-Ray in its PS3 (by the way, take a look at the sales charts this week), and its supporters for various levels of "ignorance." Now, on the other hand, the boards are filled with people singing Sony's praise.
This, of course, could be for two reasons, (1) because the HD-DVD supporters in question simply aren't commenting (for obvious reasons), or (2) people are simply backing the winner to save face.
Of course, I could be totally wrong, and totally a jerk for stating the obvious trend; and of course, this is not global. A closer reading of the boards still shows some animosity; but it's so striking and drastic a change that it's worth noting.
I'd love to see the comment histories of some of the posters in order to test my theory. In fact, I'll do that as soon as this is over. In the meantime, I've obviously subjected myself to much deeper scrutiny. Have at it.
Lastly, it's worth noting that this is not an "I told you so" kind of email due to my support of Blu-Ray and the PS3 (see my comments for my reasons). Again, I'm simply calling attention to the icky phenomenon that is only being a fan when your [insert major sport here] team is winning.
ComradeZ @ Feb 16th 2008 11:13AM
You missed the obvious reason, that people from a year ago see that, okay, they were wrong, life goes on, congrats Sony.