I haven't had a game console since 2009 when my 360 came down with RLOD ( and I had to sell my original Playstation 60 GB in 2008). However, I have a snazzy new HDTV coming my way this Christmas, so I just made a list of the how and why I plan to get back into gaming.

First I plan to get the Xbox360 and I'm going willing to pay $250.00 for it because the $179.00 4GB Model is definitely not made for gaming, so I'll have to purchase the version with the 250GB HDD, and by the time I'm finally able to do so all of this week's spectacular Black Friday sales will be long gone. I'm going to get the Xbox 360 first even though I prefer Sony because it had almost all of the best versions of the best multi-platform games of the 7th gen.

As soon as possible after that I plan on buying a PS3 to finally enjoy all of the best console exclusive games of the 7th Gen ( unless they're all available on PS4 by the time I'll have the funds to get a new PS3, if they are I'll just jump to PS4.). I'm hoping that I won't have to pay any more than $200 for a Playstation 3 with a 250GB PS3.

If you're able to buy exceptional versions of all of the best PS3 games on PS4 in the very near future though, I'll skip buying a PS3 and go for PS4 instead. Out of all of the next Gen consoles, I plan to get the PS4 first because I think it's far and away the best pure gaming console out of all of them being cheaper than Xbox One and having by far the best tech for gaming under its hood. However, if Wii U drops its price to $199 during the next year and I haven't acquired a PS4 by the time of the Wii U's price drop, I might buy a Wii U before getting a PS4.

I like the looks of some of the distinctive indie games that I've seen advertised for Ouya, so I might buy an Ouya at some point since it only costs $99.00.

I plan to get the Xbox One last out of all of the Next Gen Consoles because of its prohibitive price point and because it's underpowered for games in comparison to PS4. I don't really care about all the incidental set top box qualities that the Xbone is trying to pride itself on.

I also made a list of the order that I would buy a handheld in. If I could acquire a nice android tablet for gaming for $100.00 I would probably do so as I've enjoyed several of the games I've downloaded from Google's Play store.

I don't think I'll try to get a 3DS until Nintendo gets the price down to $129.00. And I would purchase a Vita for $150 to $199.00 but only after I've acquired a new Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 ( or 4 ) and I would rather buy a first gen Vita than any other possible Vita model unless the only difference was a version with a larger screen size..

Congrats for the dumbest post of the week award.

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yo_john117

Bulltshit, I didn't say anything like that, what I said is that Wii U is generally a kids toy, much more than Xbox and PS, don't try to deny that and just because they are high rated doesn't mean people wanna play them. Wii U is crap.

Just because a game isn't rated M doesn't make it a kids toy. There more to gaming then just Fifa, GTA and COD.

Where are you from? if you're anywhere in America.... pay attention to the black friday sales.... Xbox 360 4gb model is going for $129, GTA5 PS3 500gb is only 219$..... 

The next price drop for Wii will be to $250 not $199 and that's probably not for a while now. Although you can it on Black Friday for $250.

After getting my first hdtv in years today, I don't have the money to pick up a console too.  If I could, I would go for Best Buy's deal of an Xbox 360 with the 250GB hard disc drive, Halo 4, Darksiders 2, Batman:  Arkham City, and Tomb Raider all for $189.99.  However, I don't.  I wouldn't pick up either the 4GB version of the Xbox 360 or the 12GB version of the PS3 because I consider both versions with their miniscule hard drives to be unsuitable for much gaming.

I'm not willing to pay that much for a console that is 1/8 as powerful as the best console on the market when the latter is only $100 more..

Are you refering to the Wiiu? Because the PS4 is $200 and Xbone is $300 more then Xbox 360 would cost you. You shoulnd't really think of it as powerful but simply on which console will give you the most gaming time. You bviously don't have the money to buy a next gen console, but if you pick up a Xbox 360 today, and pay $189.99 with the game that you've mention. all of whihc average 10-15 hours of game time, that's a total of 60 hours minimum of playing time. $189.99 / 60 hours =  $3.16 per hours. Since you haven't own a Xbox 360, the backlog alone will give you countless hour of available playtime. All of the game would be discounted since their not new release on Xbox 360. The cost per hours of entertainment of your Xbox 360 would become meaningless.