What's The Soonest You've Ever Bought A Console After Launch? What's The Longest?

[gigantor21]

Just throwing this out there.

For me, the closest we got to buying at launch date at my house was for the PS1. We got that a few months after launch.

The longest would probably be the Dreamcast, which I bought for $60 something like 4 years after it was discontinued in the States.

What about you?