Well, i got the worst case of Sony brainwashing today when an 8yr old kid I was entertaining was telling me how much fun he was having playing Super Mario on his playstation.. and nothing i said could convince him that it didn't come on playstation

This depends a lot on the demographics. How old are you/your friends?

I happen to know people from many different age ranges, and this is my experience on buying habits:

(I don't include Xbox because it has almost no presence where I live)

6-12 years: 80% Nintendo, 20% Sony (the uber-cool "I already play GTA, I'm so mature" kids).

12-18 years: 20% Nintendo, 80% Sony (I'm not a kid anymore, I buy Sony who makes mature games).

18-24 years: 40% Nintendo, 60% Sony (We love console wars!).

24-35 years: 60% Nintendo, 40% Sony (Getting tired of the same Sony games, looking for new experiences).

35-50 years: 90% Nintendo, 10% Sony (Did you see that console in which you swing the controller?!).

50-100 years: 100% Nintendo, 0% Sony (We love Brain Training!).

So, I usually act depending on the demographic I'm discussing stuff with. Since I prefer Nintendo, I try to avoid talking about console wars with the 12-18 demographic.

In my college class, there are about the same amount of Nintendo and Sony fans, so it is always fun to discuss about the console wars, since I'm the only one of them who knows sales figures. Sony fans ALWAYS are completely certain that all PS brand products are destroying the rest in sales. And when I say "Go to this site: vgchartz.com" they reply "But my PSP can open PDFs" :D.

In the choir in which I sing, there are many people who are 24 years old and up. And although some of them ponder on buying a PSP because it's easy to pirate and can be used to play SNES games, most only like Nintendo, specially the older singers.

I'm putting that one on my sig  

Playstation brand is a lot more popular among teenagers. I bet most of them started playing games on the PSX. Nintendo gamers that played on the Nes are usually 25+ years. There is also a younger Nintendo generation, those who started playing Pokemon.

LOL tabsina

 They are brainwashed indeed. When I bought my DS and took it to class a guy told me "OMG! Is that the new double-screened PlayStation?! Sony sure knows how to make cool new stuff!".

 Or when a friend of my mother saw me playing Wii Sports: "What PlayStation is that? My kid can't play like that with his!".

You can't imagine how many times I've had to say: "This is not a PlayStation. It's a video game console, made by Nintendo. Nintendo and Sony both make game consoles. All PlayStations are consoles, but not all consoles are PlayStations". 

 Sigh...

Well I would say that the playstation brand is strong here in Sweden still. But Wii is getting a lot of good press, but I don't know if it is Nintendos brand that is growing or the Wii brand. The only problem I see for PS3 is the price actualy it gets a lot of people that would have bought the PS3 to ask what the f**k.

Other than that Sweden is a PC country with high amont of piracy.

funny here in germany (where mighty PC roam the land) all the people I know love Nintendo for the quality games they make and I´m not the the only PC owner I know of who got a Wii to go with their PC, this migh be different in the age group below me (teens) but I still don´t know any PS3 owner, know 2 or 3 360 owners here.

still I have yet to meet somebody who played Wii with me and says its not fun, everybody and I mean everybody loves the Wii 

I've heard and said that more times than i can count too.. i have even gotten "When did you get an Xbox?" when I was playing gamecube games on the Wii

In college it was a horrible time to be a Ninty fan pre-Wii. Halo and GTA were played 24/7, maybe once a month you would hear of a Melee of Mario Kart tourney, as those were the only Nintendo games that had any respect what-so-ever in my college.

Wii came out, a few people bought PS3s but then kept complaining of the lack of games, several actaully sold thier PS3 and decided to buy a 360 instead. A handful did buy the Wii though and things really changed thanks to drunk people at parties with Wii Sports/WarioWare, and the market for "oldskool games" on the V.C.

Now it's about a 50-40-10 split, with the ratio between 360's, Wiis, and PS3s. The lack of people with a HD TV in college probably has something to do with the numbers as well.