5th Gen - Purchased a PS1 mainly for Final Fantasy, was still gaming on my SNES and then moved to PC gaming pretty heavily. I now own an N64 but that was purchased recently.

6th Gen - I completely skipped this gen for home consoles, was not interested in the direction that the PS2/XB were taking and never got around to getting a GameCube. I now own a PS2 I bought relatively recently and played several GameCube games on my Wii (one of the reasons I picked up a Wii at launch was the Backwards compatibility). PC gaming kept me occupied most of this gen, but then it started to get way too expensive and I started looking at consoles again. - I had a GBA and played it a bunch this gen as well.

7th Gen - Picked up a Wii at launch, best console I've ever owned (awesome games on it, plus the VC which just kept coming with awesome games, I decided to never touch emulators again in the early 2000s after I realized they were imo morally wrong). I bought a DS Lite in 2008 and played a crap-ton of RPGs on it. Just recently (as in this year) picked up a PS3 to catch up on the dozen or so third party games from this gen that I am interested in that didn't come to Wii (literally that's about all I could come up with - basically can't stand shooters and that rules out like half of the games on both the 360 and PS3). Very impressed with PS+ (got a free year with my PS3) but still having trouble finding an excuse to turn it on.

8th Gen - Picked up a 3DS at launch, didn't have much to do on it for a while besides playing older games, really picking up now. Picked up a Wii U, already have about 20 games (including eshop and VC games) and looking forward to quite a few games I want to buy over the next year. I expect I'll probably buy a PS4 in 4-5 years once the library (imo) calls for it, and I can pick it up for $2-$250 (roughly), although if they keep up with the PS+ awesomeness and get some cool (again imo) games out in large enough numbers I might pick one up around $3-350. I am thinking about picking up the XB1 if it was backwards compatible (mainly for some XBLA games on the 360 I have some interest in and the Fable games) and relatively cheap, but it looks like neither of those things will be the case. Hopefully they will pick it up for gamers like me and make me want to buy it in the future. They came very close with the 360 about 2 years ago, but then sony picked it up a little and I have trouble justifying buying both the MS and Sony systems as the games that interest me on both systems are so similar.

6th gen- I started off with Gamecube in 2003, still my favorite console. After playing all the best games I got a PS2 in 2006, mainly because I liked Twin Snakes so much and wanted to play the other games in the series, there ended up being a ton of other great games too. I got an Xbox a few years later at a garage sale and played Halo and a few other games but sold it soon after to help pay for a Wii.

7th gen- I bought a Wii in 2009, was a great system but I didnt enjoy it nearly as much as GC, Smash/Galaxy/Zelda/Prime Trilogy/Monster Hunter made it worth the $200 tho. Last year I bought a PS3 on black friday, been having a lot of fun with it and PS+ is giving me a big backlog for cheap. If the $99 360 rumor comes true I may get one soon just to play Halo and Gears.

8th gen- This gen will probably be the same, Wii U this year or next, PS4 a few years later and possibly X1 when the gen is over.

6th gen - Only Xbox. Mistake because it had almost no games, so I sold it.

7th gen - Bought X360 at first because of fanboyism. But when I came to my senses I regretted that and bought a PS3. I have had not much use of the X360 and it's collecting dust since +2 years.

8th gen - Planning to do a PS4 and Wii U combo.

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i only really got into gaming on the 7th gen when i got given a Wii and bought a PS3 later on. I didn't buy Xbox 360 (these 2 reasons are for before the slim) due to how noisy it was and the RROD. But also having to pay to play multiplayer put me off despite the advantages. Also, by the time the Xbox 360 Slim came out, i was content with PSN and my PS3 and the games it offered. There were hardly any Xbox exclusives that i really wanted to play and most games i wanted were also multiplatform or a PS3 exclusive. Alan Wake was really the only Xbox game i wanted and that's on PC

8th generation i will buy PS4 and Wii U

Just because I have a differing opinion about things compared to you doesn't mean you have to bash them. But thank you for making me not want to "take off my fanboy goggles" even more.

Everyone keeps saying this... I think I'm gonna have to play it this summer. The last game you guys recommended turned out awesome (Chrono Trigger).

As opposed to the very narrow and blind faith some many users here have in one of the other 2 companies?

You might be new to this but, opinions exist. Everyone has them. You not agreeing with someone elses doesn't make them less true or a fanboy/girl. Right now, you're the one coming across as that which you claim he/she is for critizing his opinion.

As if someone who choses to play Nintendo consoles only is somehow brainwashed and totally oblivious to the world around him...

6th gen - Xbox! (LOT of fun and good memories on this one, thanks Microsoft)

7th gen - Xbox 360 (x4 for the whole family) and Wii for games. Also got one PS3 at the beginning to watch bluray but I finally bought a standalone player (only game I bought was Metal Gear Solid 4).

8th gen - Already have a WiiU (I regret it; my kids are playing the 360 99% of the time) and I'm planing to get the Xbox One.

I have all 3 of the current gen consoles. Altough I use my PS3 95% of the time. I only play Forza Horizon on my 360 (that games is so fucking gooooood) and some Nintendo games on my Wii.

That being said I only have bought my PS3 new the other 2 I bought used.

protip! Dont expect Xenoblade to be the best RPG you play.  I didn't do it and I was really suprised how great it is. When you expect to much you are more prone to being annoyed by little things because subconsciously you are looking for flaws to compare it to other games etc.

So try to be unprejudiced when it comes to Xenoblade.

It was the first ever game of the Xeno series I played well the first ever game made by Monolith Soft i played and they managed to be in the top 3 of my most favorite developers EVER. 

Well actually they are on the TOP SPOT but they have to share that position with 2 other companies (who constantly bring out great games yet have to share that pole position with MonolithSoft which made it to the top with just 1 game LOL!!!)

So yeah dont expect to much