Why gamers don't buy a game because it is for another console?

[Ajescent]

okr said:

Ajescent said:
I'm not buying a brand new console just to play one game, no thank you.

No? I do it all the time. I bought a

Gamecube for Wave Race: Blue Storm
Xbox for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
DS for The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Wii for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
PS3 for Flower
X360 for Tales of Vesperia
PSP for Jeanne D'Arc

I'll buy a 3DSXL for Paper Mario: Sticker Star.
Not a console, but 20 years ago I bought my first PC just for Sid Meier's Civilization (and claimed to use it for seminar papers even though I already knew I''d never finish university).

Eventually I bought more than one game for each of those systems but initially I bought all my systems for just one game. The first game on a system often was the only one I owned for months (or even more than a year like in Wave Race's and Old Republic's case). I'm aware though that not everybody wants to spend or is able to spend this much money for theoretically just one game.

I agree more games will eventually come out for you to buy, but for me a console will have to have at least 5 or more games that I REALLY want to play/own before I even think about buying it.

This  in my opinion is why you get lots of people saying "my ____ is gathering dust right now" simply because they bought it for one game and beyond that, there was nothing else to play on it that fitted their liking.

On the long run it's just not worth it.