As a gamer you cannot dislike Nintendo, they made modern gaming, the people who make the games you love all learned from them and played the great Nintendo classics on the NES back in the 80s.
I have not been a Nintendo gamer since I got my segaGenesis a long time ago, but I think they deserve some respect for laying the foundations with Mario, Zelda and Metroid, those were groundbreaking games back then and I would say that at least for the first zelda it has more replayability than most modern games, no matter how much bigger they may be, super mario bros3 is still one of the top platformer of all time the first Metroid is still enjoyable (however the snes follow up aged much better).
Now for the hardware, this is their love for gimmicks that pushed them to invent the shape of the modern controller (look for the nes max, an upgrade they used to sell for the nes) .
basically, this has been sad to see them go since the release of the wii... But i think they still do great marios, however the motion controlled Zeldas just did not work for me... I have not been able to like any of the 3d metroid I tried on the gamecube... So I don't like where they are headed anymore..
