Have you ever skipped systems from your preferred console maker, and if so which and why?

[farlaff]

During the NES era (well, in Brazil, post 2600 consoles only arrived around 1989, and Sega was the only one that did it officially - I had a "alternative" console that was a "NES", called Phantom System), I was more of a Konami-Tecmo-Capcom (in that order) player than a Nintendo software fan - I loved Mario, of course, but loved Ninja Gaiden, Contra and Castlevania more -, but their games were in Nintendo platforms back in the day, so I would want to play those. When the Genesis arrived and I first played Strider, I almost decided otherwise (we didn't have money for more than one console) and came colse to getting one, but it wasn't long until I saw F-Zero playing at an import store and I had NEVER seen anything like it, and that was a factor for me to follow up my NES with a SNES (a "proper" one this time). Later on, during my University years, I was very close to getting a PS1, but my best friend already had one and we came to an agreement that I would get a 64 so we could play both systems, and up to this day I love that decision as I 1. did not have as much time to play games, so the "droughts" would not affect me much and 2. I think 64 was a far superior system as far as gameplay goes (only game I ever really really envied from the PS was SotN). But then the 2000s came, I had a computer at home, started playing on PC and I didn't care at all for any of the systems from that time, plus I was recently graduated and had a son to take care, so I skipped Game Cube and did not have an active system in my room for about 8 years, when I got very impressed by the Wii in 2008 and its joint gameplay capabilities, plus it had many games my son could play, and it had Resort AND Brawl that we played together a lot. Wii introduced me to Monster Hunter (see my profile Pic), and because of it I ended up getting a WiiU pretty much because of MH3U and to keep playing the Wii library. I was not much of a handlhled guys, even if I did have a gameboy and a GBA which were mostly for my son to play, but when the Switch arrived I loved it from the get go. So, this is the story of why I have had all Nintendo home consoles except the GC. Not because of a love of Nintendo, but because of particular circumstances, and a kind of "comfort" with knowing theirs tend to be good quality hardware.