So I know that the Escapist is rife with PC gamers and I just thought that this would be the ideal place to pose such a question. I myself am a console gamer out of preference, and I make no efforts to hide that fact.
So I was browsing the threads on the Escapist on the rumours surrounding the next Xbox, most notably of the it being "always online" and in each thread there were a large amount of replies that came off as dismissive of consoles in general.
Rather whimsically, I typed "PC Gamers" into Google, only to find the top result as "PC Gamers are snobs", followed by "PC Gamers are the worst".
I was shocked to find that these were the top searched terms, but I plugged in "PC Gamers are" without instant to see if these were just outliers.
The results speak for themselves.
Whilst the positives and negatives of either of the sides have been spouted time and time again ad verbatim, I'm not here to incite a flamewar- only to gauge the Escapist's opinion on the matter.
So, do you think that PC Gamers subconsciously perpetrate a negative stereotype of their community as a whole?
If so, what can be done to address this problem?