CLOSEST would be when I got the Wii 2 years after launch, LONGEST would be getting the PS3 7 years after launch! As for the quickest time in returning a console for not liking it.... that would also go to PS3. Nothing against Sony, though.

Where--and why? :p

Wii U on launch day and PS3 in january 2012 (~5 years).

Well, the closest was the Vita, 11 months after launch (I usually don't like to buy close to the launch date, since the first units have more technical problems).

Now, the longest was Master System. I bought mine in 2001, 12 years after launch. And I bought it new!

N64, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox & X360 at launch.

Latest was PS3, 32 months after launch.

Heh.

I didn't get a Sega Mega Drive 'til last year . So that one takes the cake for the longest time after launch, only to be overtaken by maybe a PS2 or XBox if I decide to get those.

PS1, PS3, Wii and Dreamcast were all fairly soon after launch, within the first month or two. Three at the most.

DS took awhile, as well as GameCube; both about two years or so. GameBoy probably was a couple of years after launch to, because I would have been too young, but before the launch of the GameBoy Pocket that's for sure. Got that and the Color soon after launch. Don't remember about GBA but I have the original and not the SP, so it was in the early years too.

Only ones I got launch-day were N64 and WiiU.

I don't remember when we got 2600, NES and SNES (complicated, they were my aunt's originally but mine now), but both were definitely still within their respective generations easily. Lastly, it's impossible for me to know when we got the Odyssey2, since that thing was my mother's in her youth. Likely all these won't win the title from the Mega Drive anyway.

For me it was the DS & Wii, which I got one day before the official european launch date.

day 1 PS2, PS3, PSP, PSVITA

Gamecube, Wii, WiiU all on launch day.

All others around 3-12 months after launch.

The shortest I've waited is 3 years for the Gamecube. My longest was around 6-7 years for the PS2, heh.