@Hyperion
Every person is different in exactly how they give up, and more to the point what they exactly view as giving up. I would qualify purchasing a second console as giving up myself. Which is how most members of this community give up. They just silently buy a second console, and usually within a handful of months that is all they use. I personally call this the closet concession.
From my experience closet concessions also mean that your probably not going to be buying the next product in the series either. It is easy to see why as well, because it is just human nature to have reservations about a new produce since you shoved the old one in a shoebox and never touched it again.
Honestly I think it is going to take a lot for Nintendo to get out of the shoebox now, and a lot to keep people from putting the console in the shoebox. Sure you will get theatrics on the day of the conference if it goes bad, but nobody is likely to openly say I give up. There is too much pride there. You will know in a couple months when they are asking for game recommendations for their new console.
A lot of people may disagree, but the way I see it if your buying a new console in the middle of a generation that means your first console is not fulfilling your needs. That is a concession in itself. Other people have consoles and they feel no pressing need to get another. So why do you feel the need.







