I always feel Nintendo were overrated.
Sega produced the true gamers console, remind me again how the DC failed? It has some of the greatest games of all time.
However I did buy a wii, mainly because it looked fun (which is what gaming is supposed to be) and after well and truly having ym ass handed to me on mario kart online by my gf I can confirm it is the most fun I have had on a console since the 16 but era.
I do have a 360 as well, because whatever defences people put up, the wii does have a different target audience. This means no hope of getting games like gta4 (although perhaps a later re-release like bully)
As for the CD32 I bought one years ago its a nice machine to own, but I rarely play it, mainly because it didn't really do anything that my a1200 couldn't. Although I looved the James Pond intro.
Out of interest, I can't be bothered to research this morning, could the cd32 have competed with saturn/ps1 or was it a halfway house between them and md/snes.