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bouzane on 20 January 2015

Despite my low expectations going in I was still let down by the N64. I bought it after it was discontinued in order to catch up on what were apparently the greatest games ever made. I soon found them to be clunky, awkward, ugly and downright primitive. Also, I despised the laughably stupid controller and the system itself broke down after a couple years. I found the N64 to be an utter disappointment in just about every conceivable way.

However, that was nothing compared to my disappointment with the PS3. It turned out to be a vastly superior system to the N64 in the long run but I bought it near the launch during a Gamespot fire sale. I traded in a couple dozen unwanted games and bought it for $350 with a free copy of Oblivion. After my initial enthusiasm waned I became irked by the lack of custom soundtracks, trophies / achievements, controller rumble and cross-party chat among others. Couple that with inferior Ubisoft and EA games (early on anyway), the initial first-party support (or lack thereof) and my disappointment with Metal Gear Solid IV as well as a few other flagship titles and I found myself mostly playing PS2 games on it. After a while Sony managed to right the ship and correct many of the problems so I was actually quite content until the PSN hack which was shortly followed by my PS3 breaking. I have not purchased any of their products since although the PS4 has been tempting me.



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Chazore on 20 January 2015
Aeolus451 said:
Chazore said:
PS3 since mine broke roughly a year and a half later, I should have just gone with a 360 from the start and would have saved money and anger back then.


So you're saying you should of went with the 360 which had a even worse hardware failure than any other console in that gen (maybe of any console gen) because your ps3 broke a year and half in? Hmmm. 


Considering I actually went with a 360 and mine never failed throughout the gen, I'd say it was the better deal than simply forking over the same amount it took to buy the expensive PS3 back then (Which was also known to suffer just as much with the YLOD).

Apart from that I suffered no hardware failure in the 360 side.



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chocoloco on 20 January 2015

Out of the NES, Super Nintendo, N64, Playstation, PS2, xbox og, 360, PS3 and PS4 and Wii. The only console I regret buying is the Wii.

It looks horrible on HD and has very few exclusives I even moderately enjoyed. Oh, well, I usually buy all the consoles eventually, but it taught me to not buy Nintendo until it has been out for almost all of the consoles life cycle.



Aeolus451 on 20 January 2015
Chazore said:
Aeolus451 said:
Chazore said:
PS3 since mine broke roughly a year and a half later, I should have just gone with a 360 from the start and would have saved money and anger back then.


So you're saying you should of went with the 360 which had a even worse hardware failure than any other console in that gen (maybe of any console gen) because your ps3 broke a year and half in? Hmmm. 


Considering I actually went with a 360 and mine never failed throughout the gen, I'd say it was the better deal than simply forking over the same amount it took to buy the expensive PS3 back then (Which was also known to suffer just as much with the YLOD).

Apart from that I suffered no hardware failure in the 360 side.


You must of been one of the lucky few then. How often did you play video games?



toot1231 on 20 January 2015

Xbox360
PsVita

and PS2 but I used it as a dvd player along with everyone else in the early 2k's



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Augen on 20 January 2015

The original Xbox. Let me be fair, some of this is one me. I was a kid flushed with cash for the first time in that era so I bought a PS2, GC and XBX in 2000,2002 and 2003. I bought the Xbox because of Fable, the game to end all games, which ended up being an average action RPG. The massive disappointment from that and the fact it had the controller I liked the least so bought multi plats on PS2 or GC. I ended up barely playing it as I didn't like Halo, with only an NHL game with custom soundtrack being game I came back to it for.

It is not a terrible system, but I realized at the time buying a system for one game is not a good idea.



JoeAncelotti on 20 January 2015

Not yet ... not yet ...



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BMaker11 on 20 January 2015

My lifetime of consoles:

Genesis, SNES, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, PS3, 360, PS4.

Gonna have to go with no



silvergunner on 20 January 2015

For me, has to be the 3DS. For three reasons...

1) Design Faults

From day one, I had trouble getting my 3DS to work on the Internet correctly. It took several minutes for Swapnote and the eShop to load, and half the time attempting to play online ended with failure. On one occasion, I tried three times to play Mario Kart 7 online and failed, tested my router by playing a game of Wipeout HD Fury (PS3) online without issues, then tried Mario Kart 7 three times again. The Swapnote slowness came to an end when Nintendo killed the application and replaced it with Miiverse, which is even slower.

The lack of a second analog stick could have been fixed by having a capacitive touchscreen like 99.9% of other devices now have, but that wasn't included. Instead the most fun you'll get out of Kid Icarus before your hand goes numb from RSI is probably the monotonous conversation scenes. In addition the motion controls didn't work properly with the 3D display, as when you tilted the device with 3D on, it messed up the effect (limitations of the 3D screen technology).

2) Awful Games:

No doubt a lot of people are going to disagree with me on this one, but the 3DS had possibly the worst set of first-party games on any console. From Mario Kart 7's broken gameplay and inability to play online to Starfox 64's poor replayability and bad motion controls, it seemed like Nintendo had completely bypassed quality assurance. Plus they charged £40 a time for games which had much less playability than even a 69p Android App.

3) Culture of Bullying and Intimidation

I tried speaking out about the issues I was having. The result was having all my 3DS owning friends turn on me, calling me nasty names, and claiming I was just a whiner who didn't know how to use the system (with being unable to connect to the internet) or a bad gamer (in response to MK7's broken Item Randomiser). They ignored the fact that every other console I had ever owned had none of the problems. How a console can turn people horrible defies belief.

Extra Note:

Two months after I ditched my 3DS, I was told by one of the aforementioned Nintendo fans that the reason the 3DS had issues connecting to WPA2 networks was because it wasn't originally designed to. If I had known that I would never have bought it in the first place.

After ditching my 3DS, I used the trade-in credit against a Nexus 7 (2013) tablet. I've not regretted my decision once.



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I3LuEI3omI3eR on 20 January 2015
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Mine would be the Vita!

When the Vita got announced, I was freakishly hyped because I loved my PsP which I choose over the DS and the ipod (I owned both the DS and ipod later but that was much later) and my nostalgia memories of the PsP went though my mind like an orgasm! But then, as it got closer to launch, some of my caution signs lit up such as no way to play any of my PsP games or that getting a discount for owning the UMD program was not going to come to NA. But I was like whatever and of course, the memory card prices were dumb as all hell since 32gb memory card costed $100 where a microsd 32gb costed $20 during sale! And also, the fact that there would be zero memory card included with the Vita just to even save the games!

But still, I was like whatever! Vita has its faults just like every other console/handheld and all I care about was the gamez! So I spent over $320 getting the Vita + Gravity Rush + Starter Kit which included a 4gb memory card and I enjoyed the launch games. But then, as time went on, I began to realize more and more that it was lacking exclusives. My 3ds had plenty of exclusives that could not be played anywhere else. Not on the wii, not on the DS, not on my PC, no where but the Vita? Well, it had tons of games that I already bought for my ps3... And while cross-buy was nice, it didn't give me any reason to play the Vita since the system was so expensive, I was afraid to take it outside and lose it but keeping it home didn't do it any favors cause my ps3 is at home and its connected to my lovely 1080p monitor!

And of course, after that, as less and less games and exclusives came out for the Vita and more and more games came out for the 3ds, the Vita started collecting dust! And a ton of it! I never had this before! I never had a system that collected this much dust because it was doing nothing in its generation

So eventually, I realized that this relationship was going to be over. I stopped using the vita completely and the games made me lose any interest in it cause the ps3 had them with significantly better graphics and performance. And I didn't like the UI one bit coming from the PsP because the stupid bubbles blocked my wallpaper. I loved PsP's transparent design cause I could see my wallpaper and it was one of the things I hated about both the DS and ipod that you couldn't have your own wallpaper. And also, I hated the fact that memory cards costed so much because I always had to download and delete and download and delete. It was pure nonsense. Sony wanted to push Digital Sales yet they made the memory cards this expensive? Okay there. And transfering stuff such as pictures, music and other things took foreverrrrrrrr for some reason. And I believe you had to use this program to do it too which wasn't a good thing either

So I sold it for a bit over $150 and I sold the games for $20sh each. I do once again own a Vita now though but thats cause my friend didn't want it so he sold me his for $50 (And I also lost a bet). I am also using my friend's library so at least its slightly better than before where I had to pay for everything

That blows man... funny thing is I wanted to buy a Vita for the Holidays but after I found out it wasn't backwards compatible I COMPLETELY lost interest... the VITA library is nowhere near the quality of the PSP library. I was at least interested in 4 games that aren't available on PSN ( Crisis Core, Valkyria Chronicles III, Mega Man: Powered Up, and Valkyria Profile: Lenneth).

Also at least you weren't as dumb as my bro... he spent like $600 combined on 2 Vita's... o.O