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greenmedic88 on 01 March 2013
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In many ways, I am the opposite.

I was a huge Nintendo fan during the NES years, transitioned into PC Engine, and when the SNES released, I fell in love with Nintendo all over again.

When the PS1 hit, I was onboard and loving it, thanks in part to already being biased by formats, rather than content alone (CD-ROM was all the rage then, even with its laughable load times).

When the N64 finally released a day late and a buck short, I bought one anyway, and... ended up buying something like less than 10 games for it over the entire product lifecycle. I played the hell out of Ocarina of Time, and Shadows of the Empire was awesome, even if for no other reasons than the Hoth level and filling in more back story for Star Wars. And then there were a bunch of other Star Wars games, but no Metroid. And then I remember playing a few dogs on the system before it stopped seeing use.

After the Saturn Vs. PS1 chapter, I skipped the Dreamcast completely, having minimal interest in games at the time (I was living my adventures as an enlisted soldier instead), but bought a PS2 anyway and it became my default source for gaming.

Near the end of my time in the Army, I started playing games again thanks in part to boredom with work and my tuner car being back in the shop for engine rebuilds and upgrades, and that was about when the PS3 debuted and suddenly I found myself sucked back into gaming full force. I picked up a Wii and Xbox 360 within a 6 month span, had fun with both, then eventually realized all my favorite games on the Xbox were better on PC and post Wii Fit, became pretty disillusioned with the Wii when I broke down how motion controls worked (or didn't) and found myself not playing the solid games released on the platform that didn't rely upon weak motion control gimmicks that I bought, and found myself playing more games on Steam or the PS3 instead since there are only so many hours one can devote to playing games in a given week.

Over the 7th console gen, the PS3 delivered more entertainment value than any other system I've owned in over 30 years of gaming, even when I was just using it as a media center for video on HDD, BD, etc.

I'll buy a PS4 for the same IPs I played on the PS3 alone. Don't need any other reason. The Xbox 3 remains up in the air and the Wii U, will only find itself on my entertainment console after or if it has at least 3 games I can't play anywhere else that I really want to play. An awesome Zelda game would be great since I never bothered to finish the last two Zeldas. And an awesome Metroid would be great as well since I never bothered to finish Metroid 3 and was pretty upset after buying and playing Other M.