Tachikoma said:
So, I sat and thought about my situation, and i'm sure the same situation for many fellow gamers on these boards, the situation of owning the WiiU, PS4 and XBO, then I thought about the counter arguments brought up by people which usually goes along the lines of "x and y consoles all you need".
The reasoning behind this attitude seems rather weird, usually the attitude is "WiiU and PC" or "PS4/XBO and WiiU", or even just PS4/XBO and PC", but when you break it down, no matter how you slice it, excluding one of the three consoles means writing off the exclusives and first party titles of a particular console completely, or subconciously assuming that the exclusives of one console have more value than the exclusives of another.
I'm not going to beat around the bush with it though, Nintendo gamers, and even non nintendo gamers seem to have this mentality that Nintendo exclusives by default should be included, where the "hd twins" is a "pick one and you're done" situation.
The reality is simply that if you exclude one, or even two consoles from your collection, you are going to miss out on great games no matter which console or combination of two consoles you pick, the only reason why picking between the XBO and PS4 is "less important" is because they have more third party titles, something that the WiiU painfully lacks.
Owning all three consoles however, allows you to pick the best games regardless of exclusivity, and the "best version" of multiplatform games, either based on the games quality itself, the online features, or whichever game is being played most by your different groups of console friends.
For example you could have more friends playing Destiny on PS4, so buy for PS4, but more friends on XBO playing Battlefield, so go with the XBO, equallty you get to benefit from the "hd twins" rivalry for sales in terms of discounts, buying games only a few weeks old at a discount, or even getting relatively new games for bargin basement prices as the rivalry and competition for the largest userbase hots up.
Owning all three doesn't however make you unbiased by default, you would still have a "favorite" but you are at least in a position to try the offerings of the other systems and play them first hand rather than writing them off just because they're on the "enemies" console.
No doubt there will be some users who don't read to this point and reply with "x and y consoles all you need" or will read to this point and reply with it anyway because they think doing so is funny, but the simple and logical conclusion when thinking about the way games are released, how industry competition works, and how to best use sales rivalry, is to own all three systems and, where finances permit, a relatively decent specced PC/Laptop to boot, means that you benefit most from the massed of bullshit, misdirection and underhanded deals going on throughout these consoles lifetimes.
At the time of writing this, you can buy the three consoles at the current amazon prices of:
Xbox One with game : $346.95
PlayStation 4 : $399
Nintendo WiiU Swapforce bundle : $249.99
That's all three consoles for $995.94 or an average of about 2 weeks pay (or a birthday and christmas combined for the average kid).
The total price of buying all three during sales such as black friday drops signficantly too.
So I guess what i'm saying is, Give being an all-console owner a try, if you can, the benefits far outweigh the initial cost.
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