Oh noes, look what you did! Now this thread will be infested with Killzones and Halos!

it's the genre that i like most so that's GREAT!

but i agree, it's pretty much a known fact by now :p

Case is, those are discussable, Nintendo and platformers isn't.  I'd say Valve makes the best shooters, not Infinity Ward. Some would say Namco makes better fighters than Capcom, and similarily.

If you go back pre-DS, you might be able to say that Electronic Arts had a similar domination over the "sim" genre.  Other than that, I can't think of anything that's even close to what Nintendo has with platformers.

my bad, sorry fellas.

point well-taken. i still think, though, that street fighter and marvel vs capcom are pretty hard to beat, in my opinion anyhow.

nintendo is really the only company that makes platformers now. The only other is sony, who in fairness have a lot of great platforming titles as well (Ratchet, LBP, Jak and Daxter).

This is what I meant...in all other genres you can have more discussion...but in platforming games, even if its only mario, Nintendo really is the best.