I read a post on this forum and the poster (sorry for not remembering his/her name) said that he/she was a Sega fan but now he/she is with Ninty to take over the lead again. What I immediately wondered about was, do you prefer Sega or Microsoft and Sony for our rivals?

In my opinion the Sega Rivalty times were better by far! I mean, we were rivals but they were great, they were a games company (not like Sony and Microsoft that put music and media players to their consoles), they created heros like Sonic (and not like the Halo Superman or sex symbol Lara Croft), they were searching for GAMING evolution. They were ORIGINAL. These times were romantic. I think that TURE Sega fans are with Nintendo nowdays because Nintendo is expressing what Sega was also expressing: video games love. We love the game, not everything that makes us rich! I don't say they are doing it to offer us fun no matter what the cost for them is but at least they care about video games.

Hey, don't diss Lara   Lara is cool and hot. But I do agree that Nintendo is more for games rather than a multimedia machine... and it's better because it's a videoGAME console, not a "mp3player- dvd,-tv-videogame- stereo-karaoke- computer- blender" console.

I don't diss Lara, I also had my Lara-is-the-woman-I-want-NOW period. It is only that she is not what I want from games...

Sega - Nintendo is a classic battle. I hope one day Sega can pull itself from the deep dark pits of third partyism, to respark the old war.

However, I don't agree with the idea that a video game console should be just that. Look at cell phones nowadays, you can't buy one without a camera in it or games and what not in it. Its not a phone anymore. Its a device that enables communication, both through visual and audio. Whether its calling a friend, downloading a background, or taking pictures with the "phone," its still more than a phone.

I think this is how video games should be. As a worldly society, we are growing to want more. That is always how it has been. And if it can fit in a normal CD, why not be able to play a DVD as well? Its initially all the same thing. Not only that, but should I mention even Nintendo has gone this route of combining being able to do more than one media (video games).  In Wii-Sports you can place your face on a player...I'm guessing the only way to do this is through a wii-camera, which is most likely going to operate like PS2's eyetoy camera. See, Nintendo has mad a mix. And I would like to see Nintendo take that step and allow a game console to play DVDs and such, because its an added bonus that is a huge sells pitch. I remember when PS2 was new and hearing about that it could play DVDS, that made me so happy because I never had a DVD player before then and my PS2 was going to do it all for me.

good point, nintendo is a gaming company, thats waht makes them great, sony is an electronic company, i dont even think they have any first party games unless they under a partner company

I don't find it bad to put in some things (like the web connections) to improve gaming. Nintendo isn't going to equip Wii with the web connection to download movies or music. It will be just to enhance our gaming experience.

Spawn got me, Sony is an ELECTRONICS company. Trying to mix games with electronics is bad, trying to persuade people that it is the new gaming generation is even worse.