I'm a Sega man myself, and while I used to get into heated arguments with Nintendo fans and bash their systems as a kid, I have a great deal of respect for Nintendo nowadays - a respect that Sony or Microsoft will never have. And even in my Nintendo-bashing days, my best friend owned a SNES while I owned a Megadrive (Genesis). We would visit each other's houses almost every day and play each other's systems. We'd pretend not to enjoy it *too* much, but we both knew that we did. I secrectly loved playing Donkey Kong Country and Mario Kart, he secretly loved Sonic 3 and Toejam & Earl. We both loved Earthworm Jim and Street Fighter II. But the point was, we were loyal fans to great game-makers, and lovers of great games.

At the end of the day, Sega and Nintendo are the creators of great games, always trying to innovate, and they clearly haven't always been the most commercial paths to take.