Nintendo lost me at the N64 era. 2d platforming has always been my favorite genre yet Nintend just ignored all of the incredible 2d games like the Donkey Kong Country trilogy and all of the incredible 2d Mario games and just went for all 3d games completely put me off. Honestly, I have almost no passion for any other company or any other genre out there. So, I never really felt compleled to buy anything other than a Nintendo console so when I didn't buy the N64 or the Gamecube, that was the end for getting consoles for me. I just stuck mostly with my SNES for a loooooong time, got FFVII for the PC and for the rest of the time went with MMOs until the Wii came out. The thing about the Wii is that almost everyone who says that Nintendo forsakes its hardcore, probably started gaming with the N64, but it actually brought back a lot of SNES fans including myself. Oh yeah, and the Metroid Prime Trilogy is awesome.