First of all: my goal in this post is to be 100% neutral and bias-free.  My preferences may come out subconsciously, but this is not a psychology class, so I won't go into that.  Just trust me when I say that I am not trying to push my console preferences.

It happens every time new consoles come out: the console wars heat up and gamers take their choices in consoles very seriously.  It leads to insults (look at the comments of any console wars-related post on QJ), stress, and distraction from the entertainment of gaming.  We are all guilty of it.  You, me; even the people who repeatedly state the same kind of thing I'm saying right now are soldiers in the console wars.  But as a gamer since the 16 bit days, I can tell you that I never first picked the console that would eventually win until the DS (and that war isn't technically over yet), but I've still loved every console I ever had.  The console wars mentality is a problem, and as I hope to explain in this post, meaningless.

Reasoning and explanation after the jump.