My first console was the NES. It was true that I liked Nintendo consoles the best until this generation with the Wii. This generation, Nintendo has been much less enthusiastic about the kind of games I love as they found a gold mine with the new consumers of interactive entertainment.
All this stereotyping can be said about any company. I can say Xbox fanboys are people who have never known what a PC is. Steam has been doing the same thing Xbox Live has done for years and for free.
Why do I like Sony the best this generation? I don't love any company that's not paying me huge amounts of money, but they make the most games that I like to play. Where else will I find LBP, Valkyria, Uncharted, MGS, etc.? Sure the games don't have 5-10 mil. in sales, but they are the games I enjoy. Like others mentioned, if Sony stepped up the jRPG development a bit, I would be golden.
Nintendo? Wii is definitely no SNES in terms of games that I like to play. It's obvious they want to go for a different demographic. Usually, when games do come that I like, I just go to a friend's house to play it. It's not hard to find people who own a Wii.
Microsoft? I bought one for the jRPGs that are missing from Sony's line-up (yes, Sony needs to do better in that dept.). However, what's after SO4 for the jRPG line-up? I was hoping for Cry-On, but that was canceled. There is definitely alot of attention for Halo, Gears, GTA, and whatever all the cool kids are doing these days. I mainly see attention from MS toward established 3rd party franchises that I've been playing for years.
From Sony, there is alot more attention for the oddball gamers that don't want the super-casual games or the grey Bald Space Marine shoot everything that moves games. And yes, that's why you don't see me in a whole bunch of KZ2 threads. I want games like VC that have a unique art style, or LBP bringing what I loved as a kid in 2D sidescrollers in a "next-gen" environment, or Uncharted with it's amazing environments and fun adventure game-play.
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY." --Hermann Goering, leading Nazi party member, at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Conservatives: Pushing for a small enough government to be a guest in your living room, or even better - your uterus.
