Life Behind Enemy Lines
Life as a Playstation 3 owner in a 360 dominated community
Chapter 1
3 AM in the morning there are four of us in the room, me, my two brothers, and our friend. Our friend who we'll call Teehee (for that is PART of his PSN) and me Tickle (Part of my PSN) is laughing at a headshot I had on MGO. We are the majority of kids in our community who have PS3. There are only two others not there. We gather online almost everyday after school to play online (Teehee at his house, me at mine). Teehee plays CoD4 and we play MGO (recently LBP Beta). We make up about 1% of the total number of gamers in out community. The rest are 360 boys. They seem to number in the thousands. Lucky for us we are all closely knit.
The game starts with us all in Tickle, Teehee, Boyz, Fizzle, SamBad, and Crazy Steve. We are know as AC!D and are a group of locals (excluding Steve and Fizzle). AC!D spans a couple of games like CoD4, Warhawk, and soon SOCOM. We all play and fail epic on anything other than CoD.
At school we stand around Teehee and us, (me, and my brother) and we talk about stuff games, sports, and other random unimportant things. First period starts with a total of four 360 owners and one lonesome Playstation owner. Third Period (1-2 are the same **** is anywhere from 4-10 360 owners, this is my UA period.
Fourth period we get some slack with only three 360 owners and a kid who is in love with WoW.
Fifth period there are four 360 owners. This has the least amount of serious gamers. Most of them play 1 hour a week.
Seventh Period, this is the big one. I sit next to Ray a mild fanboy who has already pre-order CoD5. Me and him are best of friends I ask him about 360 things. Most of the time his answers are the following: You Playstation n00b (jokingly using noob) or my favorite, you poor poor Playstation owner. He then tells me about his GTA4 game with, Kenny, James, Evan, and him and how it was so "beast" as that is the word we use for cool in our gaming community. I laugh at his stories of the crappy connection.