I am shocked that nintendo and sony are basically = on that poll..

What I have found out is that many ppl got the wii just for Mario games. I know about 30 ppl that have the wii and about 20 only have Mario n maybe some have wii fit plus or games. N it was because it wa bundle with it. Now I ask myself.... What if Sony or/and Microsoft had Mario. I think that manny ppl would never bought the wii if that was the case. Wii only has a few about 5 real games that ppl really want. I might be wrong but I know too many ppl with that problem

I would have to say Nintendo.
Its mostly because of their first party, the ds, the Wii, and I have a prefernce for their games over anything else. I only played Halo from Microsoft, and Sony for this gen really hasn't produced games that interest me... God of War 3 no, heavy rain isn't something I would like, Uncharted looks pretty cool, but doesn't look like the game I would replay (I could be very wrong). I'm looking forward to all of their line ups though.

For me..

Nintendo havent done any major leaps when it comes to gameplay and technical achievements in games. The Wii Fit, Wii Sports are a great way to showcase the motion controller of the Wii, but the games themselves dont really take any major leaps from last gen. Nintendo however do have huge success with its first party games. But Studio-wise they dont really take any risks and/or bring anything new to the table besides the whole motion controller aspects, which i feel is more hardware based rather than a Studio choice.

Microsoft has very few 1st party studios and games to even be up there with Nintendo and Sony this gen. Even if the few they have are great and the games have good sales and are quality titles, Microsoft just dosnt stack enough quality first party titles to be a contender.

Sony has taken alot of leaps this gen with innovations with LPB (the studio was not 1st party at the time of release) and its Play, Creat, Share. MAG with 256 players online. Naughty Dog with probably the most critically acclaimed game to date. Heavy Rain (the studio was not 1st party at the time of release) with innovation in storytelling and interactive entertainment. And we have GT5 and GOW3 on its way which both seem to take leaps in different fields of gaming.

So i feel i get more "new experiences" with SONY than any of the others. Even though Nintendo probably stack alot more "new ips", the constant Mario kart, world, party etc "spin offs" just dont feel as fresh as a completly new story and character like Nathan Drake, Cole and Sack Boy.

Nintendo because when it comes down to it they can make incredible titles which rely simply on awesome gameplay to sell to their audiences. They have the highest attach rate overall so that speaks of their broad appeal.

Nintendo used to be my favorite, but for the past few years they and Sony have been neck and neck for me. I played a few more (and quite a bit better) Nintendo games than Sony games in 06/07 (TP, SMG, SPM vs GoWII, Uncharted), then 08 was more even, but still leaned towards Nintendo (SSBB and MKWii vs LBP), then 2009 leaned heavily in favor of Sony (KZ2, Demon's Souls, R&C, Uncharted 2, Flower, LBP PSP vs NSMBW, Prof. Layton, LoZ), and this year is going to be pretty even again (GoWIII and the Last Guardian vs SMG2 and Zelda Wii.

Overall, I'd say they're tied for me.  I voted for option four.

Looking at things more objectively, I'd say it who is "bigger" is quite open to interpretation.  Nintendo is definitely the biggest when it comes to sales, and when they make a winner they really knock it out of the park, but Sony has been releasing more games for its home console (ps3 vs Wii, ps2 vs GC) for quite a while now, and still compete decently on the handheld front, arguably given them a larger and more variable stable of good games to choose from overall, even if their games don't have the level of appeal Nintendo's titles do.

Wow, you need to go back and look at the site again.  It says right there.  Original Development Teams.  As in, these are the teams that originally were there making games back in the NES era and before.  They're all still there, just R&D4 has been split up into smaller divisions and renamed to EAD.

R&D1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Research_%26_Development_1

R&D2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Research_%26_Development_2

R&D4 (now known as EAD) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_Analysis_and_Development

These were Nintendos 'in house' game development studios.  The studios that originally made such games as Mario, Zelda, Metroid and more.  And R&D1 is still around working on games like Metroid, Fire Emblem and Warioware.