CoD ghosts?  on xbone and had ms exclusive advertising and all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-purchase_rationalization

For convenience, let me quote parts of this article:

For example, a consumer cannot decide between two popular video game consoles, but in the end decides to purchase the one that many of their peers also own. After purchasing it, they may find few games for their console worth purchasing, and more for the console they did not purchase. However, they do not wish to feel they made the wrong decision, and so will attempt to convince themselves, and their peers, that their original choice was the correct one, and the consumer's opinion is better than everyone's opinion, i.e. using sour grapes arguments

The above should help you navigate VGChartz quite nicely.

Never would use any of those excuses the main reason to buy any platform is still the amount of games it has that you are interested in and if it has enough games that you are interested in then its worth buying no matter what other people may think.

The ONLY justification I ever use is this:

I want to play those games.

What about the excuse of "I just bought PS4 to prepare for GT7"???

No actual people say these things. And if people really cared they'd buy all of the systems/pc.

Why there is a need of justify your purchase?=P beside the only true of those, is the wii u one.

none of the options are that expensive for what you get out of it tbh.........I don't need an excuse to spend a little cash on a big part of my life.

The only reason I buy a certain console is based on how convoluted it is. That's why I only own Nintendo consoles.

This reminds me that some people have told me that I should have got a smartphone instead of the 3DS but screw phones XD.

Edit: I have a phone but it's not smart...