Fanboyism Evolution

[KBG29]

1992 (Age 4)
NES - My intro to gaming, Duck Hunt and Mario, not much else, was my grandpas console. Did not know about other consoles.

1995
SNES - Grandpa and grandma bought me an SNES, played Mario, Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG, Star Wars, True Lies, Donkey Kong. Absolutly loved Nintendo, could not understand the appeal of Sega.

1997
N64 - I got an N64 from one set of Grand Parents. I loved every game Nintendo made for it. Donkey Kong, Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, Crusin USA, WWF No Mercy, were highlights of the platform. Still did not understand Sega, had not heard of PlayStation.

1998
PS1- Went to my uncles for a cosins birthday. He was playing a racing game, I could not believe he was driving an RX7 on Grand Valley. I asked, what game it was, we all know now it was GT1. I ask, "Is this N64", no he replies, "This is PlayStation". For christmas that year I got a PS1 and GT.

1998 - 2002
I loved PlayStation and Nintendo eqauly, and became very interested in PC and Xbox.

2001
Gameboy Color - My first handheld, only ever used it to play Pokemon Yellow. I was not really into handhelds, but my Grandma bought it for me.

2003
PS2 + GCN + Xbox + PC (Family)- My first consoles I payed for myself. I worked the summer and made the money to buy all three consoles. I loved Xbox for its custom sound tracks, and PC won my eart with RTS games. On the old gaurd PlayStation was starting to become my favorite, and Nintendo was starting to sink. I found myself playing PS2 the most.

2006
PS3 + Gaming PC + 360 + Wii + PSP - Again I ended up getting every console around launch, and even built a PC for my Senior project in Highschool.

2006 - 2013
This is where the turning point happened.

Wii - I ended up almost never using the Wii, I had been not been very happy with the games on Gamecube, and Wii was not that exciting outside of the rare Nintendo game, but they were brilliant when they came.

PC - After having casually gamed on the family PC, I was so excited building my own gaming rig. I had a quad core AMD, Nvidia SLI, and 4GB of RAM. I could play anything. RTS was sill the bread and butter of my PC gaming, I preffered Motion and Gamepads for FPS, so PS3 and 360 saw that genere. Then PS3 had Linux, and I ended up using that for most of my PC stuff, as I had made a PS2 with linux before I had the PC.

360 - This ended up being my Multiplat console. PS3 was just dissapointing in most cases, but it was nice having the choice when the odd games was better on one platform or the other. I enjoyed Halo, Forza, and Gears from a first party stand point and ended up reliving the Banjo games through XBLA. However, by the end of the generation, 360 and MS franchises started to feel stale.

PS3 - This thing was my go to device. I battled hard when Blu-ray was fighting HD-DVD. I even would hang out at stores and make promote it over HD-DVD, which got me a lot of flack on here, but I did not want a S*** format winning, because I love Movies, Concerts, and TV just as much as gaming. By the end of last gen I had pretty much went fully PlayStation. However, with Microsofts momentum, I was not set in stone.

PSP - I owned every version of the PSP. From day one I wanted Sony to make a PSP Phone. I used my PSP for everything, and it became the first handheld I truly fell in love with. In the end I just kept waiting, and waiting, and waiting, but a PSP Phone never came.

2011
Xperia Play - I jumped into this hoping it would lead to a PSP successor that could double as a cell phone. I never liked the iPhone my parents made me have for emergencies, and in all honesty, I hated this peice of crap just as much.

2012
3G Vita- I bought a 3G Vita just because it had Uncharted. I was pissed at Sony, and never took full advantage of the device. It was used here and their, but it was a bastared child in my eyes.

2013
PS4 - After Sony's Feb 22 PS4 unviel I was feeling pretty sure about getting PS4 and after MS's if you don't like it don't buy it statement, I was sold on skipping XBO. I actually liked their pitch of Digital games, TV, and Snap. Snap and Skype are actually the only two things XBO has that I miss on PS4. However, after seeing the speed of PSN, the better performance of games, the lightining fast installs, and the sluggish nature of XBO, I pretty much lost interest in dumping money into one.

Xperia Z - I bought an Xperia Z as the XP was a joke, and I was still angy with Sony about Vita, but I was playing a lot more Vita titles at this point, but still desmissed it for everything else.

2014
PC - I am a sucker for Nvidia. Since they did not have a GPU in a console, I decided I would build a new PC and use their GPU's in it. I started playing Company of Heroes 2, I got Titanfall, Crysis 3, Metro 2033, and Ryse, but by the end of the year I had not even turned the thing on since Ryse came out. PS4 is just to convienet, and does everything else, plus I have all of the service which all work quicker and better than on PC.

Xperia Z3 - Remote Play sold me on the Z3. I ended up buying off contract and switched from T-Mobile to AT&T. I never really liked android on the Z, and found very little to like about it on the Z3 as well. I started using my Vita more and more, tethering the 4G for Remote Play and PS Now.

2015
This year I put my PC in the closet and my Z3 found a new home in my dresser. I dropped Comcast and am looking forward to subscribing to Showtime, Fox Soccer Plus, and Machinima next month when they go nation wide on PS Vue. I have been using PS Now on my 3G Vita which became my full time phone back in January. Driveclub is my favorite game so far this gen, and I have not stopped having something to play for the last 18 months. Project Morpheus is by far the most exciting thing I see coming up in electronics and entertainment.

At this point I feel like all of my needs are met with PS4 and the 3G Vita. I am spending at least $600 a month on PSN, for games, TV, Movies, and Apps on PS Mobile. The only thing that could get better is a 4G Vita with full access to PSN services, and Universal apps across PS4 and Vita. The only reason my smartphone ever gets used is if I have to look at a PDF, otherwise I have not needed any other device, and can not see spending the money on a whole nother system just for a couple of games.

Unless Sony completely blows up, I don't see ever buying another non PlayStation device again. Thats just me though. I still think XBO, PC, and Windows phone are great, and Win10 is going to make that a bad ass ecosystem. Nintendo, Steam, Apple, and Google I don't see any value in, but if people are happy with them, then I am happy for them. That said, I enjoy trying to persude people to move over to PlayStation.