Why does Nintendo have a cult built around them, but not Sony, Microsoft, or Valve, at least to the same extent?

This. I haven't owned a Sony console since gen 5 and have been PCMR ever since, yet every time I criticize the sacred BING BING WAHOO cow it only takes a minute or two for some autistic cretin to come along with the usual
>B-B-BUT SNOY
Every.
Single.
Time.

case and point

Somewhat related but why do basedboys/nu-males like Nintendo so much recently? I don't remember them posting open-mouth selfies when 3DS and Wii U were out.

Nintendo saved the video game industry in the west.
Sony, nor Microsoft or Valve have done anything that monumental and or important.

Microsoft's been around longer than Apple, yet the latter is the one with a cult.

It's case in point you illiterate retard, and you're literally proving right.

Nintendo targets and indoctrinates them since the earliest age. And they are god-damn good at it too. They make really, really good games for little children. It's just that once those children grow up, they seem to end up almost universally broken. That is the heart of the cult.

Valve drones are still somehow around.

>you're literally proving this guy right
I own a PS4, you absolute shits for brains.

when will the "nintendo resurrected videogames" meme die?

It fits the "non-threatening, infantilized male" image they seem to be going for. Because that is what Nintendo games generally tend to be: infantile and non-threatening.

Valve
>releases 1 game every 5 years
>loot crate pioneer
>LEL CANT COUNT TO 3 KEK

Sony
>do I even need to explain

Microsoft
>oh yeah I guess Halo was pretty cool
>how's Rare doing
>Don't they make computers?

The fact of the matter is that Nintendo consistently ships good, first party games at regular intervals. Even their flops are "just" minor successes, while Sonniggers and Microcucks can't seem to go a console generation without literally shitting the bed and appearing to be on the verge of death.

Valve almost captured Nintendo's magic but then Gabe realized they could make more money by supporting 3 or 4 games in perpetuity and exploiting the legal blindspot that is lootbox gambling, then over the past two years they've been boldly experimenting in the frontier of "how much can disappoint the average gamer"

Sony has more of a cult than Nintendo.

What the hell is wrong with these people?
Is there a cringier video from xbonefags or snoyfags? I doubt it.

Because nintendo are marketing gods. Their brand is just more iconic to normies. Games like COD and FIFA etc, have no mascots. More people know mario and crew than any other sony IP.

Sonyfag cringe tends to be more about hate than love so there aren't really videos of it, just angry posts on Yea Forums
Xbox would need a fan base to have cringe.

this fucking board is like groundhog day
every fucking day every fucking hour the same fucking threads and pictures

People buy Nintendo shit no matter what. They have a cult fanbase that will buy anything Nintendo

Sony WISHES they had that kind of loyalty. PS and Xbox fanbases are essentially being tugged each gen since 6th gen. They have to fight for the same audience.

Nintendo does not.

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never, because it's a fact
why are you so upset that nintendo saved video games in the west?

Valve used to have one until they stopped making video games

This for sure. Valve used to be UNTOUCHABLE on Yea Forums and many places. They did NO WRONG when they were supporting/funding/making games.

They do not even make video games anymore. I've never seen a company stop making video games and still alive.

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Nice wikipedia knowledge. NOWHERE ELSE besides America had a home video game crash. To top it off, arcades and home computers NEVER died in America. Your average kid didn't even know there was an industry crash of any kind.

>NOWEHERE ELSE besides one of the biggest producers on the planet had an issue so yeah fuck you
lol

He says while worshiping a Japanese company.

HNNGH name?

Because there's an entire generation that grew up on Nintendo, thinking today they're still delivering the same service when in reality they're also like Activision, releasing the same content over and over.

sony and microsoft are extremely recognizable brands. nintendo, like apple, has just cornered the market on manchildren with zero standards.

Nintendo is the Star Wars of vidya

Why doesn't she just use a spoon?

>recently
those types of people have always been nintendo fans. there just wasn't a buzzword to describe them until recently.

Because she's craving the BBC

because it's porn you fucking retard

BRAAAAAAAAAAAP

>Nintendo saved the video game industry in the west.
they saved console gaming in north america, that's all. the nes didn't stop arcades from going through hard times, didn't have any impact on pc gaming, and didn't have any impact on the european market (who preferred home computers and sega).

don't worry, kids nowadays doesn't care about nintendo, this autistic cult will die off someday

You have to compensate for a shitty purchase somehow.

Being well known is not the same thing as having a strong brand, and brand is not the same thing as the company itself - a company can have many brands. With Nintendo, you know exactly what you are getting because the games all look and sound alike, the product encourages you to play socially and the marketing highlights this, the colour red marks it out against green and blue, etc. Branding is a consumer's conceptual map of a product line or service and the more focused it is, the more permanent the mindshare you have. In comparison, it's much harder to say what Xbox and PlayStation stand for.

Good, this way the Playstation receives actually original titles instead of Super Mario Happy Fun Time for the 30th successive year.

Pretty much this. People who live in huts in sub Saharan Africa know who Mario is.

Wrong person meant to quote

Microsoft has made far more software than Nintendo.

but spooning is an important part

99% shitposts are by sony fanboys

Like a good looking and successful white women

Because Nintendo is the single most influential company in video games. Take them out of the equation and video games are a fad that died in 1983. Sony wouldn't be in the console game without Nintendo (for real, the PlayStation started as a CD add-on for the SNES), and Microsoft wouldn't be in the console game without Sony. Nintendo is the Kevin Bacon of the games industry. Everything is connected to them one way or another. Without them, the video game industry as we know it wouldn't exist. Also: remember when older people called every game console a Nintendo?

You people do realize fan is short for fanatic right?

Because the Playstation and Xbox's game libraries overlap so damn much that it's hard for either to solidify their brand. Compare that to the Playstation era, when Sony's third party games were a big part of its identity since they were almost all exclusive.

>valve doesn't have a cult

you weren't here when all of those incels were sperging out about epic store and alternative game launchers in general?

they actually believe that steam is the one billion dollar jewish-owned company with benevolent intent that puts people over profits.

Nintendo makes games for children, and they do this far more efficiently than any other video game publisher. These games warp vulnerable children's minds, stunting their mental growth and taking advantage of their youthful predisposition to colourful characters. They become obsessed, and they then unhealthily begin to define themselves by their interest in their nintendo games and their nintendo machine. They become platform warriors. This process forms an indelible brand burning in the back of their brain, and it becomes more corporeal with every new Nintendo game they buy, satiating the craving of their childhood interests and damning them all the more for it. This has occurred with every Nintendo console, but most apparent in modern society (the one we live in) today, is the fallout from the release of the N64. You have countless gross examples of manchild abominations lurking the internet, drawing the eyes of those with morbid interests, particularly in the despondent cases like Chris Chan. One example are speedrunners of Mario 64; autistic, loud, odoriferous, and prone to highly insular habits. Banjo Kazooie is another. One needs only have observed Yea Forums for a prolonged period of time to have noticed that the Banjo fanbase is one of the most obnoxious in gaming. The concepts of "betrayal", and "relevance" are to them so important, for a mascot that is ultimately equivalent to a children's cereal cover duo, is so core to their very souls that they must preach far and wide the tale of their newfound inclusion in a baby's first fighting game.

>Take them out of the equation and video games are a fad that died in 1983.
take them out of the equation and sega still would have existed. so would home computers, and arcades (in japan).
gotta love how nintendofags always try to revise history to make their corporate gods look greater than they are.

Because they're the only one that makes games themselves, and they have a massive pool of IPs. You do see the same kind of cults on the other platforms, but you'll notice they're devoted to the game series more than the platform. If you like Mario/Zelda/etc, you by extension like(or at least tolerate) Nintendo. But if you like Halo, or God of War? You might like the studios that make them, but even in the case of Halo that's changed hands. Valve is the closest to Nintendo in this regard out of what you mentioned, but they bowed out of the development scene in most meaningful respects a long time ago. Sega would still have Nintendo-tier fanboys if they still had a console. Capcom and Konami could if they ever made one and kept their titles on it exclusively.

Nintodlers are the result of aggressive marketing on a young brain

Then their brand should be about the originality of their games.

>makes a thread with a clear goal to shit on Nintendo and its fans
>doesn't go as planned
>ends up being triggered and mad as fuck
Snoy. Always.

Microsoft was and still is THE software company.