Off Ebay for a good price :P

At the time my girlfriend was a big Nintendo fan, she loved Banjo Kazooie and more importantly, Ocarina of Time. So I got pressured into buying a N64 to please her :P I played OoT and then the star wars N64 games, I loved it! :D

Super Nintendo, N64, Dreamcast, PS3 and PS Vita on launch day. I think the slowest I have been to buy a console after launch is the Xbox 360 which I bought about two years ago.

soonest which was at launch day: playstation, n64, gba, dreamcast, xbox 360, xbox

i can't really remember anymore when i got my snes, was very soon after launch but i don't think day one.

latest: probably nes ~4 years later

Oooh, forgot to mention the longest, that would probably be Xbox 360, 6 years after launch.

S.Peelman said: Heh. I didn't get a Sega Mega Drive 'til last year . So that one takes the cake for the longest time after launch, only to be overtaken by maybe a PS2 or XBox if I decide to get those. PS1, PS3, Wii and Dreamcast were all fairly soon after launch, within the first month or two. Three at the most. DS took awhile, as well as GameCube; both about two years or so. GameBoy probably was a couple of years after launch to, because I would have been too young, but before the launch of the GameBoy Pocket that's for sure. Got that and the Color soon after launch. Don't remember about GBA but I have the original and not the SP, so it was in the early years too. Only ones I got launch-day were N64 and WiiU. I don't remember when we got 2600, NES and SNES (complicated, they were my aunt's originally but mine now), but both were definitely still within their respective generations easily. Lastly, it's impossible for me to know when we got the Odyssey2, since that thing was my mother's in her youth. Likely all these won't win the title from the Mega Drive anyway.

Jesus Christ. NintendoPie wasn't kidding. XD

But why did you wait so long, though? Just curious.

PS1 - 1997 or 1998, not really sure

PS2 - Definitely in 2000

PS3 - April/May 2007 (Bought the slim in Oct/Nov 2009)

360 - Fall 2008 (Can't remember when I upgraded to the Slim Xbox)

PSP - 2004 I think... (Can't remember when I got the 2000)

That's all I can remember really...sorry I'm so vague. 

gigantor21 said: S.Peelman said: Heh. I didn't get a Sega Mega Drive 'til last year . So that one takes the cake for the longest time after launch, only to be overtaken by maybe a PS2 or XBox if I decide to get those. PS1, PS3, Wii and Dreamcast were all fairly soon after launch, within the first month or two. Three at the most. DS took awhile, as well as GameCube; both about two years or so. GameBoy probably was a couple of years after launch to, because I would have been too young, but before the launch of the GameBoy Pocket that's for sure. Got that and the Color soon after launch. Don't remember about GBA but I have the original and not the SP, so it was in the early years too. Only ones I got launch-day were N64 and WiiU. I don't remember when we got 2600, NES and SNES (complicated, they were my aunt's originally but mine now), but both were definitely still within their respective generations easily. Lastly, it's impossible for me to know when we got the Odyssey2, since that thing was my mother's in her youth. Likely all these won't win the title from the Mega Drive anyway. Jesus Christ. NintendoPie wasn't kidding. XD But why did you wait so long, though? Just curious.

I never had a Mega Drive during it's prime, though a friend of mine did and I've played it several times.

In 2010, I decided to pay more attention to the 'weel-being' so to say of my video game collection and try to 'restore' whatever I'd lost over the years. This idea evolved into getting everything that I had played in my youth. So last year, I got a second-hand Mega Drive. A model 2, boxed in 'like new' condition with two controllers and Sonic 2 for a reasonable price, basically just for the reason to get my childhood memories in order .

The PS2 has no place in my memories, I never had one and I didn't know anyone who had one. Yes, that's actually possible . The XBox (first one) however does, since my cousin had one and I played my fair share of games on it. I might get an XBox still somewhere down the line.

Gamecube, Wii and Wii U all bought at launch.

I didn't buy a DS for myself until 2010, but I had used one owned by someone else extensively prior to that.

If that doesn't count then the next longest is the PS3, which was not far from 3 years after launch.