Problem with Nintendo in the past is that their consoles only had about 5 good games. Theyre also more of a family console. Hopefully that will change with Wii...... tho i dont see any decent games for it on tghe horizon. Only real potentially awesome titles iv heard about are the Star Wars game and the Ridley Scott's Alien RPG. Most of the other titles are those cartoony titles for 8 year olds and mums
. Wii certainly has far more potential than PS3 and XBox360 ..... it just needs the games.
I do agree with Unco's assessment of PS2 ..... tho they tended to have far more pretty good titles ..a few good titles like Pro Evo soccer , MGS and GTA.
Xbox was the best ....if only for KOTOR 
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