I'll freely admit it: there have been consoles over the years that I have loved enough to be a fanboy of them. The Game Boy, the Super Nintendo, the PlayStation 2. And I was definitely a Sony fanboy during the PS2 days, but such has been my admiration for all three home consoles in this generation that any Sony fanboyism has simply died anyway.

Yet, after the way Nintendo, fanboys, Microsoft fanboys, and worst of all the press reacted to the bug affecting Sony consoles a couple of weeks ago, I'm almost tempted to repin by Sony badge of honor.

I can probably accept the digs from the other console's fanboys, even if it's so easy to retort against them. Sure, people couldn't turn on their PS3 for day, but at least if they wanted to, they could see it underneath the huge pile of dust – am I right, Nintendo fanboys? Or do the Microsoft fanboys need reminding of the whole RRoD thing? You know, where you can't ever turn on the console again?

But that would just be me coming down to their level. So I won't do that…

It's the proclamations from some quarters of the press, though, that really bothers. People actually suggesting this was "the end of PlayStation", "the biggest PR disaster possible", "the nail in the coffin of the console wars". I mean, really? Two weeks later, and we've already moved on. I think Sony's doing okay, you know?

Frankly, the PS3 fanboys are as bad as anyone with the way they react on N4G, but you can almost extend them some sympathy after seeing how much people overreacted to this.

Almost, but not quite.