Cult fascination.
Do you know why and how sony got into the video game consol market? Originally the play station was a concept made by Nintendo. Nintendo approached Sony to develop the technology for the CDROM which would have been used, a contract was signed and Sony got to work. Nintendo reviewed the contract later and decided that they got a raw deal so the defected to phillips and made a seriously uncool declaration at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1991.
So here was sony stuck with a product and no market so instead of doing what others might have done, i.e. cut your losses and hold a grudge against Nintendo, Sony decided to stick it in Nintendo's face and finished development launching the PSX on the 3rd of December 1994(Japan), 9th of September 1995(US) and 29th of September 1995 (Europe).
(FYI Nintendo sued, greedy b*st*rds!)
Sony followed the PSX tradition by producing with the most loved console in history, the PS2
I dont like Nintendo cuz i believe the breach of contract they pulled on Sony was unprofessional, and i lost respect for them and hence i have never, currently do not and probably never will support them. Even back in the days when they duked it out with Sega i was a Sega fan!
I bear no grudge against Microsucks Microsocks Macrohard Microsoft, i would buy the Xbox (and am in the process of doing so) but no matter how good they make it, it will ALWAYS defer to
SONY
It has nothing to do which is a better system, or which is priced ok.
It's called brand loyalty, given a choice i will alway pick a Sony product above any other brand on the market today(Except for cellphones, there i'm a Samsung fan).
Explanation enough for you?