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

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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.

You must make a lot of money if you can buy a console for just one game!