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DevilRising on 06 September 2015
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LuckyTrouble said:

It feels odd seeing people say that they moved specifically from one system in a generation, specifically to another system in the next generation, specifically to another single console in the following generation.

I grew up this way:
NES + SNES -> N64 + PS1 -> Gamecube + Xbox + PS2 -> PS3 + 360 + (for a short time) Wii -> PS4 (relatively recent purchase) + PC

For handhelds, it was more like:
GBA -> DS + PSP -> 3DS + Vita

I've sampled the best of all worlds as much as I've desired to in each generation, and I've had a wide scope of experiences thanks to it. I can't imagine chaining myself to a single console because of brand loyalty or otherwise. I've always just gone to where the games are that I thought sounded interesting, and I've found myself to be surprisingly resourceful in the past to play what I wanted despite growing up poor.

Sure, if you have the main consoles in each generation, it's hard to collect a huge collection of games for each unless you live a relatively financially stable life, but you don't need a huge collection. You just need a collection of the fun games that you want to play.

 

 

I would say, honestly, that a lot of it may well be that many gamers simply cannot afford to buy more than one console per generation. Or if they can, they get one as their "main", and then MABYE get a second console way down the road, when major price drops have happened.

 

I know I personally grew up pretty poor, so we simply couldn't afford to get more than one system. And even in my late teens, when I had jobs and money to finally buy my own, I still couldn't afford to have both an N64 and PS1 at the time. In my adult years, I did, as my prior post mentioned, get a PS2, but not till I found one used for a really good deal, and when I got myself a Wii, I didn't actually wind up buying a PS3 until 2009, when those suckers were STILL priced at $400 (still the old fax machine model).

 

So I dunno. A lot of gamers, especially ones with families and kids, but also many single peeps, just don't have the budget to support more than one console at a time, I guess.