I used to be a Console Warriur...

[mariozeldametroid]

I like this thread! I used to be kind of a fanboy as well, and that curse will officially be dispelled when I finally buy the 360 as my second 7th gen console.
When I was 7, Pokémon brought me to Nintendo. Long I played nothing but Pokémon Red, Yellow, Gold and Ruby. Nothing else.
Until something wakened me. People were making so much fun of Nintendo! Playstation was always better! While I liked Nintendo! I mentioned Sony was being extremely arrogant towards Nintendo, so I kinda developed a grudge against the company. This all happened in the early GameCube years.
When I finally got my hands on a GameCube(which was the first current gen console I had owned so far- sure, I had SNES and N64, but they were far and wide succeeded) in late 2003, I started exploring other franchises and genres. I played Mario Sunshine as my first GC-game, soon to be followed by Smash Bros., Zelda, and some time later Metroid Prime. During the same period, I started playing those games I missed- some on GBA(like ALttP and SMB3), some on my old N64(OOT, BK, BT, etc) and I became a real Nintendo Fanboy. Everything about Sony was bad, everything about Nintendo was good. When the name Sony was even mentioned, I got mad.
This continued for a long time, until I got in touch with gaming communities. I learned a lot, and saw that Nintendo had it's bad things, and Sony had it's good things. I still disliked Sony- hell, I was one of the Nintendo-guys who supported Wii from the very beginning, being convinced that it was going to be the next market leader, but my arguments were much better, and my hate was much milder, so I went from Fanboy to Just Fan, which is a good thing.
Once Nintendo became market leader, my opinion evolved even further, and so did my taste. I now like a good FPS once in a peroid(damn, thank you Half-Life for that) and I really look forward to once play games like Shadow of the Collosus and ICO, the Sony-art.

And here I am, playing Super Mario Galaxy next month as the last game I will ever play as a Nintendo-exclusive player, before I get a 360.

Now I'm curious, just like the OP: what's your background story?