I do not want this to be "Yet Another Canon vs Nikon Thread," but Ive been looking at a lot of pictures (of people, portraits) taken by a Nikon D60 and a several Canon Rebel cameras (XTi, etc..)

I noticed that the quality of the pictures taken with the Nikon D60 is far superior to the Canons. Am I comparing apples to oranges here? Is the D60 in a higher class?