but this one makes the most sense.

After FFXIII was announced for the 360, 3 days later I came back like a little bitch. Damn you Sony.

I left sony when they released FF VII on the psn store.. oh wait nvm

Except it's a waste when copycat threads are made. You may think my attitude is negative, but I'm not bitter. I'm just sick of seeing a thread, ignoring it, and then watching a copy of the thread being put up. All I'm saying is that some amount of thought or originality should be put into making a thread. If everyone did that, the forums would improve drastically. Copying other threads is just a waste of time. The original thread could have covered all console makers and we would have had 3 threads in one.

Sorry, but you failed at the first sentence. "Most" gamers were not raised on Sony systems, myself included. (Atari holds that honor for me, and there're at least 30 million more in the Nintendo days.) But when did I give up on Sony? It was way back, during the PS1 days. When games like FF7 started throwing in all these movies instead of game, it started to die. Ironically enough, it also didn't take too long for my first PS1 to follow suit and "die." Thus, the PS1 became the first system I had to replace, and the second one died while still under warranty. The death of the second one is where I gave up. I leeched off of friends' PS2s for the games I wanted to play, and still do not own one myself to this day. (Though I imagine with my attach rate of infinte, Sony would love more customers like me...) I want reliability in a system, and Sony systems just don't do that for me.

And Nintendo wins by what?  Divine providence?

I dont think I have actually gave up on sony. I have had a Ps1 and still have a Ps2. At the moment it is very doubtfull I will ever buy a Ps3 though. With sony it was never about what games they made themselves that made me want to buy a console. It was all about the third parties. SquareSoft/Capcom are the main two and there has not been any must play for me form 3rd parties this round. A couple that interest me, but not enough.

Haven't yet, probably won't but I never say never and maybe my number 1 console next generation will be the XBox Natal.....which incidentally will probably say it'll sell the least, my number 1 console each generation was the Master System, Genesis, N64, GC, PS3....

Torillian, it's simply. Sony accidentally provided a better and more varied gaming experience. They also accidentally improved relations with developers and got more support for their system. It was just a great big fluke.

The PS2 generation was the first generation where I didn't own a nintendo console. This gen, I only have enough money for a Wii, which is fine because not a lot of games on the 360 or PS3 appeal to me.