Topic: Are you loyal to Nintendo? Or what made you go multi-platform?

@Chrono-Cross Their wallets care.

I've always been loyal to nintendo. The only system I have ever had not by nintendo is the PS1. I got it for free from my uncle because he got a PS2 (Long time ago). I probably havent even spent 50 hours on it in my whole life.

I made a whole thread on what you just said, and the general consenus was that Nintendo makes games that they liked, so they're loyal to them. Of course, that doesn't make much sense, since once you take your blinders off, you realize that people besides Nintendo make good games too.

I don't see the point of being "loyal" to a specific company. Especially since all the good games seem to go to PS3 and 360 I still love the Wii though, and the only non Nintendo console I own is the 360, although I plan on buying tons of consoles (specifically the classic ones), like all the Sega consoles, or the Atari ones, or maybe even the Playstation consoles. Maybe.

Good games made me go multiplatform. Seriously, getting a Dreamcast and a PS3 were some of the best gaming-related decisions I've ever made.

I owned the NES, SNES & N64 and then I abandoned them and picked up the Xbox. I had looked into the Gamecube but then decided on the Xbox because of the homebrew community, media center possibilities and some games supported HD graphics. I also bought an HDTV since i was working 60 hours a week and still living at home at the time. After I bought a 360 and played that until it died. I was without gaming until a I bought the Gamecube last year and a Wii 6 months later. I'm not loyal to Nintendo but their best games rank way up there!

the only non nintendo console i've ever owned is my xbox 360 (which broke last week) and i got it because nintendo, while they brought a fresh new concept to the marker(wii), decided to ignore the industry standards(like good online and better hardware) resulting in a total lack of support from 3rd parties... Why am I not playing bioshock or fallout on my wii?? cause nintendo got on the easy-cash bandwaggon and stopped caring..

While this e3 was awesome and packed with new software.. The hardware is basically 10 year old technology and it should not be in our living-rooms.. Zelda is the only game keeping the old nintendo ball and chain arround my ancle.. On the other hand, I love my DS and will love my 3DS even more

100% but It is not like I have played diifferent things like the 360 origional xbox PS2 and PS3. I enjoy it but I don't think it is worth buying.

I am really not loyal to any company be it Nintendo, Sega, Sony or Microsoft. For me it depends what games the system has on it. I owned a NES when if first came out since mainly thats what all there really was. I owned a Super Nintendo when they came out but after playing a Genesis over at my friends house I got a Genesis for several of their games mainly the Street of Rage Series, Sonic and their sports titles. The Genesis was the only Sega system I have owned to this day. I did get a N64 mainly for GoldenEye, Mario Kart and Zelda OoT, but not before I owned my playstation for a year and half and that was because Playstation had alot more RPG on it than the N64. After the Gamecube came out It wasnt untill they dropped the price for it to $99 and offered the Zelda collectors disc that I bought one cause there were more games on the PS2 than the GC that I wanted to buy. When I heard that the Wii was going to be able to download the older system games than I ran out on launch date and bought one. Now I own a 360 for certain games as well as a gaming PC for certain games.

So for me it all depends on the library of games. If I was loyal to only NIntendo or Sony or Microsoft or Sega than I would have missed out on alot of good games over the years.

Im very loyal to Nintendo, because they are the only game company that is actually coming up ith original ideas for games, plus have some of the best games ever appear on their consoles. Kirby's Epic Yarn is 500% more creative than Halo Reach, and Nintendo literally saved gaming back in the crash of 1983. GIVE. THEM. A. MEDAL.

I agree Sony and Microsoft themselves aren't even CLOSE to being as good as Nintendo, but all the third party support for the PS360 is what makes them great. As much as I love the Wii, the good third party games are few and far inbetween, and the bad ones overflow the market and basically bury the good ones.

I'd say it was that whole weird towards-the-end-of-Gamecube/early-Wii era that really made me branch out....I bought a PS1 for FF7 and never owned a 64...but that was more due to not having the money than disinterest. Things have definitely picked up recently though, but yeah--a year and a half ago I bought a PS3 due to growing disinterest with Wii games, and I'm glad I did for multiple reasons. PS3 has some game experiences that just aren't available/comparable on Wii--and the reverse is also true (and the variety helps me appreciate the Wii games more than I did back when they're all I had access too)

Moral of story--get multiple platforms if finances allow. There are nothing but upsides.

100% agreed.

Except for maybe all the fu*&ing cords.

Try it with a NES, Master System, SNES, Gen(w. 32X and Sega CD), Saturn, N64, PS2, Xbox,Dreamcast, Wii and 360 hooked up (not to mention the DVD player and digital cable box)-Console switch boxes are your friend lol

Yeah, I only have a DVD player, N64, SNES, Wii and 360 hooked up and it's just a horrible mess back there. And I plan on getting Genesis and NES before the end of the year, so it'll probably catch fire

Loyal, but have some other systems such as the PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP. Although i say i'm loyal because once my parents bought me a PS2 for Christmas and traded it in for a GBA.

Im a Fan of Great Games, not really to the Console.

Well for me my start was in 1985 on a 'test launch' unit with SMB, Duck Hunt, Gyromite and Hogan's Alley and they got the hell played out of them for a long time, and I was 8 then. Up until basically college Nintendo is all I owned. I used a couple things my brother had barely before that time, but I fiercely refused to buy into Sega or Sony at the time. The reason was the same, and it goes with anything I buy -- crooked lying blatantly so advertising to make a buck. Sega played up the SNES as a slow, trashy, inferior device doing lie ads. Sony played up the N64 as a kiddie box, underpowered, which had no adult games (yet until the smear campaign has more M and T games than they did!) As a result I didn't own a Sega or Sony device first, but a Turbo DUO when I branched out. Sega popped up in 1999 with the Dreamcast and getting a free stack of Genesis games and a cheap Genesis3...later when working for Midway in 2001-2002 I ended up then getting all the back systems of Sega (addons not included) and also a PSOne+LCD and a PS2. Ultimately I also ended up with over time a pair of Coleco tabletop arcade games, a Neo Geo Pocket Color, and inheriting an ancient Fairchild Channel F system. Finances and economy hosed me back in 2003-2006, lost it all as far as Sega and Sony went, NEC and SNK too. It even cost me a virtual boy and a bunch of Nintendo titles and variations the GB, GBC, and A went through too.

These days I got my Wii, DS, a GBASP for various few old things, a PSP and a PS3 -- and my colecos yeah like I'd sell DK and DK Jr hah! So yes from 1985-1999 I was outright loyal, but then decided to dabble. Gaming and working in gaming got me to do more stuff, but got my tastes more finicky. For a time I reverted back to Nintendo only, but thanks to the behavior of Nintendo combined with the even worse and outright reprehensible treatment the Wii and DS at times has received it shoved me into Sony ownership once more and sadly they've become off and on(more on the last 2 years) my systems of greater use.

My first console ever was the Gameboy, Yes, i was late to hop into the gaming bandwagon. I've been loyal to Ninty since but i started buying other systems when i turned 14.

Gameboy came out in 1989, and if you got it then or in 1990-91 you didn't start too early and luckily didn't miss out on some stellar stuff in the handheld world which corresponded to some damn fine NES titles too (like the megaman games.)