if one goes "eww stinky nintendo fan", they are the "eww stinky X fan" as to perceive one or the other as worse for looking a different sytem, means you equated the system with your own morality and lifestyle.
to anyone not on twitter not being a fan of X game should not also mean that, you are worse a person for not liking a game that i do.
thats the people which harbour his replies. twitter console warriors.
most video game fans, dont engage there, and the majoirty dont engage online at all, and these ideas dont exist to them becuase they dont see games as a way of life to the point where your box selling less is a valid reason to attack someone, they just dont even think about their box selling at all.
that perception only exists among people with the exact same perception by others, weird gamers who take everything way to seriosly for what is, just video games, one pretty unimportant aspect of life.
we talk about them because we like them, but most of us have a degree of seperation.
Chris saying metroid sells bad or xbox sells bad or X sells bad or hell anything selling bad they see it as a personal attack agasint them.
they dont just like X thing, their life revovles around X thing, and by saying an unpleasant truth about X thing, to them it appears that chris is trying to demean X thing, and thats why theres harrassment and such. Tribalism exasterbated by their own social circumstances.
in this circumstance, most people dont care for news of sales, ones that dont care much about it but still find it intersitng wil lsee the post and move on, the replies will just be full of toxicity becasue on a wide reaching platform that isnt a niche forum with memebr coutns below a million, on tiwtter the only people who would be intersted in what sells are console warrios, you often get sane replies mixed in, but the vast majority of people dont care about sales data to examine the market but rather care aboiut it as a metric to compare which is better.
add on top of that twitters mass unbanning of weirdos and you have a breeding ground for toxicity. and anyone who actually partakes in disussion will also be harassed, thus most people just wont. this is who a minority seems much louder and more relevant than it actually is.
in general thats the problem with the enitre internet communication, a discssion mad ein good faith with 10 people can be isntantly derailed by one bad actor. its why moderators exist (and on some sites more than others, mods do a good job here) but on platformers with basssically no moderation (twitter) plus anynimity they can go unchecked and everyone who actualy wants to partake in any sort of good faith discusiion will just leave becuase its futile.
look at the recent zhuge sales confirmation, what he directly eplied to was a person partaking in a internet culuture war, tifas boobs were so big so woke go broke whatever, thats the level of discssion around there. a games sales is just ammunition for "the west is falling, females bad grahhhh"
its what makes talking about video games outside of small reddit subs, forums and discords pretty awful, the people their are bots and fans who from the outset are only their to fight and argue.
from a sales perespecitve zhuge, matt piscella and chirs are inavlable, they make a lot of hard to get knwoeldge avialble publicly, and the best palce to get it out is on twitter generally, but the first people to greet them with whatveer they have to say come prepared to fight over it. its not 100% and soemtimes if its series that harcore fans dont get too hot and heavy about discussion on there can be pretty tolerable. But either way its defintly not great on the mind to keep on seeing that over and over.[SPOILER/]
