Gehn, I suppose in my case the answer to that at the moment would be… why not? I’m a relatively frugal person, while there’s plenty of strictly unnecessary things - such as new phones, better cars, clothes of a certain type - that for many people may be part of the ‘keeping up appearances’ segment of their spending; being a habitual outcast type anyway, I don’t seem to care much. Videogames are actually a relatively inexpensive pastime, compared to many activities that are more normal recreational spending for some people, like dropping a couple hundred on drinks every weekend?
In other words, videogames are my primary drug, and have been most of my life so, it’s the one frivolity I choose not to stress about investing in. Assuming I genuinely have the cash to dispose of at that moment, of course.
Snow Girl, if everyone was like you, I may never have known what an asshole I’m capable of being! I’ve mentioned this before, but I don’t post (or even much look at) any other internet forums. And my first, and only other experience was GameFAQs… and I’ll freely admit I forged some nasty habits there. 
But I also always had some very conscious principles about it. Appropriately enough, my scrappiness about things really started on the Panzer Dragoon Orta board there, with a poster who seemed to think he had reason and right to condemn the game in every possible way, after it had barely even been announced, and all just for being on XBOX. But rather than simply saying something along the lines of “Sega shouldn’t have done this, screw them and screw this game” and letting it go, he was on an evident crusade to tear down any possible positivity about the prospect.
You mentioned a couple of the common ‘stock’ criticisms against the XBOX from the very beginning. It was big, undeniably, but to witness literally hundreds of echoes of that “argument”, as though that fact alone could somehow make anything else that could be said in favor of the machine irrelevant… well, that’s about the best illustration of where my personal view of Sony fan(boy)s, as a breed, comes from. To be clear, what pushes my buttons is not when someone says “I don’t like that it’s so bulky” but when it’s expressed as “XBOX is big, therefore it sucks”. Which is virtually always how it was expressed.
That’s why I occasionally go out of my way to express my own biases, to try to define the opposite example of what I consider the most despicable and insidious dynamic of that period, and which persists: any presumption that ‘you’ are actually “unbiased”. As defined by the type of post beginning with some subtext to the effect of… “you can’t call me a fanboy, even though I’m about to say something that is just like something any other fanboy would say, but I’m actually not one, because I have more than one console, which makes me unbiased, and so this isn’t just an opinion, nope, this is just how it is!”
At any rate yeah, I had a blast letting the total asshole side of my personality out for a while there. But that may relate to how I’ve been pulled into some nominally unfortunate confrontations as well, I can’t help resenting an accusation that I’m being… persecuting, because this forum has never even seen what I’m actually like on the offense. Even when I was, I believe I may claim that I never once attacked anyone’s preference directly, but only their need to express their preferences as somehow intrinsically superior to others.
