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Soniti 254 · #3 Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:55 pm

Your free to express your own opinion and all; but, not to be offensive or anything, you have to be either the biggest fanboy ever or you're completely oblivious of it to think that Nintendo has no problems at all. Nothing's perfect, not even Nintendo. If you don't mind, I compiled my own version of this list. Feel free to compare 'em or anything.

Nintendo
Pros
- Has some of the most recognizable characters and franchises in history (Mario and Zelda are the best examples)
- Can develop some pretty good games (keyword here is can)
- Good portable gaming support (although as of late, seems like this isn't necessarily the case anymore)
- Offers free online gaming, for those of you interested in that kind of thing

Cons
- Too much focus on casual games (which can also be a part of reasons below)
- As of late, they no longer care about the original fanbase, or the ones who basically made Nintendo the way they are now
- As of late, lack of actually good games (take a look at your local GameStop or its equivalent's Wii shelf and tell me how much of it you'd actually be willing to pay money for. I can practically guarantee it's between 1% to 15%)
- Their online gaming is definitely the worst of the three (Friend codes? lol wut?)

Sony
Pros
- Probably has the best 3rd party support of the three
- As of this generation, has the best technological aspects
- In my opinion, has the best library of games of the three
- Pretty good portable gaming
- Offers free online gaming

Cons
- This gen's mainstream console was really expensive and they are only just now fixing this (although for a hefty price, see below)
- As of PS3 Slim and one other model, no longer entirely backwards compatible (amongst other things, but this is my biggest beef)
- The portable console can be kind of uncomfortable to use at times (but this can be mostly forgiven)

Microsoft
Pros
- They have the most money to burn (seeing as they also apparently make the best or most well known computer software (aka Windows))
- Fact of the matter is, they probably have the most popular console of this gen (behind Nintendo's much overhyped Wii, of course)

Cons
- RRoD (although this seems to be less of a problem now)
- Too many generic/uninteresting games make up a very large portion of console's library (your thousands upon thousands of FPS games, racing games, and sports games)
- Mentioned generic/uninteresting games heavily overshadowing (practically hiding) any potential gems it has
- Often exclusivity of said potential gems
- No portable gaming at all
- Lack of any real free online gaming support
- Forces those interested in the Xbox 360's full online potential to pay monthly fees (not just for the games, but for the actual service)

And last but not least is...

Sega
Pros
- Always had the most advanced consoles for it's time (the first to introduce online gaming, the first to use media disks for their games, the first to use the console's hard drive for saving game data (see Saturn), the first to introduce memory cards (also see Saturn) the first to introduce 8-bit (Master System), 16-bit (Genesis/Mega Drive), 32-bit (32x, Saturn), 64-bit (Saturn), and 128-bit (Dreamcast) gaming consoles, etc.)
- Has some of the best games ever made (Sonic, Phantasy Star, NiGHTS Into Dreams, Streets of Rage, Shinobi, etc.)
- Pretty much was the best at what they do

Cons
- They died far too soon... DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

Well, putting my half-joking of Sega aside, I'd consider myself to be more of a Sony fan now. Because really, Sony's current consoles are the only ones that really hold much interest to me now. Even beating out old-favorite Nintendo.

Honestly, I feel that Nintendo just isn't that good of a company anymore and I am really just uninterested in their consoles and games for the most part. I'll always love and respect the old Nintendo, but I really do not care for this new one, and I can really hardly believe that this company bears the same name and staff of the company I used to love when I was a kid.

As for Microsoft, I can safely assure you that I was never interested in them as a gaming company. Honestly, as soon as I heard of their arrival, I always thought that they would drop out of the competition so fast that if you even mentioned the name "Xbox" to someone, they'd say "What the hell are you talking about?" So yeah, I guess you can say I was kind of surprised that they have made it this far and they don't look like they'd be dying out anytime soon.

And then there's Sega. Well, I can not really explain how exactly I feel about Sega. I guess one could describe my current relationship with Sega to be a love and hate one. I love some of their new games, and I hate others. However, if this were the Sega back in their prime, back when they were still in the console race, they'd easily still be my favorite company of all time. I have always loved Sega's stuff far more then the rest back in the day. My biggest regret when it comes to Sega is that I didn't get a Dreamcast sooner and I really wish I could have. I could have gotten so many more games for it. I could have gotten so much more fun out of that thing. I may even still be playing it regularly to this day had I just got it sooner. But alas, I did not. I simply got it when it was already too late.

lol wow. This turned into something so much deeper (and longer) then I could have possibly imagined.