If you happen to wander into one of the moister corners of the Internet, there's a type of conversation you might wade into about which video game system is the best video game system, and which one is "winning" whatever "war" these people think video game systems fight. For example, at this moment there are approximately 1 billion threads around the Internet in which Sony fans are mocking Xbox owners for the fact that their system has 900 peas instead of 1080 peas.

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Video games: Serious Business.

This isn't a new trend; the same argument has been going on for decades, just with different peas to argue about with every new generation of hardware. Whether it's analog controls, exclusive games, or blast processing, people don't just get super excited about how great and how well-marketed their toy is, they also feel the irrepressible urge to tear down someone else's toy.