I stick with Sony and Nintendo on the video game front. While I haven't owned a Wii or PS3, I've played with both and I love them. I owned a PS2 and GameCube, PS1 and N64. Those four systems brought so much awesomeness to the table, even if they are of conflicting companies. Besides, Sony sort of spun-off of Nintendo in the first place, so I consider them like older brother (Nintendo) younger brother (Sony) relationship. You know, always arguing but in reality they love each other to death. The games both companies shell out, recently at least, are starting to degrade in quality. 3rd parties just don't do what they did way back when. For example, LucasArts is starting to suck hardcore, where are the Star Wars Battlefront-quality games? Racing games aren't like what tey were, take Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec for example. That game, in my opinion, is the de facto king of racing games. Best simulation game out there, in my opinion. Recently though, people have just been shelling out crap that lacks game modes and pushes for best graphics.
Then, you have those huge blockbuster titles like Call of Duty, Zelda, Mario, Kaabi, Halo, etc which offer literally no change in anything besides the artificial graphical changes and
maybe a slight change in story although the core gameplay is always the same. I've no problem with those, because A) they're [
usually]first party games and thus do not degrade in game depth and
those lack of changes in said games do not decrease the fun factor. Now that is contradictory to what I say on other forums and what I've said here, but what I honestly believe is that first party games just cannot be driven off into oblivion, and the multi-million 3rd party franchises can't fail either. Now, when you factor in the smaller 3rd party games (incidentally, Resident Evil and Madden, among others), those games are repeatedly degrading because the lack of change or, in RE's case, the changes made to game formula. When you have a base game (example, PacMan) where the gameplay is 'solo, defeat all of the enemies, adventure based' you ideally wouldn't want that to drastically change into something such as 'co-op, take all of the flags, shooter based' because you had so much fun with that former style. Now 3rd party companies are starting to try to offer "variety" which just turns to be disastrous in all respects. That needs to stop.
Anyway, Nintendo is my favorite company with Sony in the #1.1 spot, because both companies are great and offer really great things to the general consumer. Neither companies' hardware has had any severe problems that I can think of, except the PS3's Yellow Light of Death, though the frequency of that isn't nearly as high another company's fatal issue. So yeah, Nintendo is still doing great though my allegiance is still sorta with Sony as well.