Why do you love Nintendo?

[Michael-5]

In general, Nintendo makes a good selection of great game every gen, and almost always, without exception, an extremely well made game. Nintendo almost always makes a game which I think is "the best" game of that generation.

With the Wii, XenoBlade is a game of better quality then almost anything else I played this gen. Donkey Kong Country Wii, Metroid Prime 3 and Super Mario Galaxy also impress as well.

The DS to me doesn't have any really outstanding games, but a lot of excellent ones, most of which are better then the offerings on PSP (Pokemon, Advance Wars, Metroid Prime, etc).

Gamecube has Pikmin, Smash Bros, and Metroid Prime.

GBA has Fire Emblem, Golden Sun, and Metroid Fusion (didn't translate over to DS very well).

N64 has Zelda, Smash Bros, Mario Party, and Mario Kart

Gameboy has Pokemon, Zelda, and Metroid

SNES has Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country, Mario Kart, and Metroid again.

 

I mean every gen, Nintendo makes or publishes one or two excellent games, and that's why I love them.

Sony is pretty good too, but I would aruge that they didn't produce a single outstanding game on the PSP, and the games they do publish on PS1-PS3 aren't as good as Nintendo's offerings. Microsoft isn't bad either, but they butchered some really great IP's and I don't recall Nintendo or Sony ever going that (Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark, etc).

 

However that said, Square/Squaresoft/Square-Enix is also an excellent company. Chrono Trigger, XenoGears, Fanal Fantasy's prior to X, and the ocassional title now and then also light up my radar.

 

Short Answer:

I love Nintendo for the JRPG's they colaborate on with Square, and some in house franchises. Games like Chrono Trigger, XenoBlade Chronicles, Golden Sun, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy (1-6), Metroid, Super Smash Bros, console Mario Kart's, Paper Mario, Pikmin, Mario Party's (N64), some Zelda's (everything pre Gamecube/GBA + TP and SS), Pokemon, and Eternal Darkness, make me love Nintendo.

So basically their niche franchises or stand alone games make me want to buy a new Nintendo system, and their big games give me something to play between installments.