Wow, the fabled hat-trick.

I've never switched mid-gen. I jumped from the SNES to the PS1, so I switched the standard way. I did get a Dreamcast when I already had a PS2, but the DC was basically dead at that point and I ended up with few games, so it was back to the PS2. I did love the DC hardware though, so who knows what might have been.

That being said, I never felt like I was switching, but rather than I just had two consoles that I liked.

I think you need to look up what the word allegiance ACTUALLY means. A better word would be "preference".

Nope. Only gen I had the time and money to do it 'right' was last gen and I played a ton of DC, PS2, Xbox and GC depending on the game. Multiplats were Xbox, though, so I guess that's the closest you could get to a preference but I never really saw it that way. Just got whatever the best version was and it was usually there.

Yup.

I bought a PS2 before a Gamecube last gen, but I mostly played on the Gamecube, being a Nintendo fanboy and all. However after a while, I started to play PS2 games a lot more then Gamecube.

This gen, I bought a 360 first, then a PS3. My PS3 broke so I bought a Wii. My 360 is breaking (I'm worried), and now I plan on buying a PS3 again. Went from MS only to Sony/Nintendo (XenoBlade re-fanboy'd me).

In the future, I will not buy 1st gen Sony's (all 3, my PS1/2/3 broke, but all first 1st gen models), but I will not buy MS products until the last gen (On my 4th X-Box, all replaced under warrenty, but my HDMI 360 is only 3 years old, and I'm already worried about it breaking. That's bad.)

So my plan is buy Nintendo when the gen starts (Wii U is first on my radar), then get a Sony product once they do a redesign (When PS3 Slim released, it then became the ideal time to buy a PS3), then get a MS product when the gen is over and rake in $10-$20 AAA exclusives (360 Arcade isn't too hard to find for $130 new).

yep, wii to ps3.

lol yeah, although I didn't know it was called the hat-trick lol.

Well you can always buy a new console but your primary console still remains the same. In this case, it's more about how you grow to love another console more than the one you initially had.

That said, oh man the dreamcast. By the time I bought my PS2 back in the day, and I bought it really late last gen, the dreamcast wasn't even in the market. Crazy.

I tend to jump around a lot. Went from Wii to 360 to PS3 and back to 360. Happens every gen, I'm a game console slut :P

Nintendo to Sony sometime during late 2008. I blame Wii Fit.

I went from Wii to PC and stayed there for a year of so. (Wii software drought+Starcraft 2's release)

Then Skyward Sword came out and I dug up my Wii to play it.
After that? Xenoblade.

I still play on my PC a lot though, so I went from Nintendo to PC back to Nintendo and now I'm Nintendo/PC.

I used to be exclusively Nintendo back when I was younger but now I play on Sony and Nintendo systems. I can imagine myself playing PC down the line.

wii to ps3. Nintendo really messed up what could have been a great system. Sony on the other hand really delivered despite a comical launch.