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When would you buy?

Launch Day 70 22.22%
 
2016 25 7.94%
 
2017 46 14.60%
 
2018 28 8.89%
 
2019 4 1.27%
 
2020 2 0.63%
 
2021 7 2.22%
 
I play a gen behind. 7 2.22%
 
Not sure yet. 56 17.78%
 
Nevar! 70 22.22%
 
Total:315
uran10 on 18 June 2015

Whenever gen 7 of Pokemon launched on it :)



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Cloudman on 18 June 2015

I guess it depends on what they have at launch. I wait for the games I want to be released before buying a console. Though maybe I would buy it at launch. I have never done that before, so I would like to do it at least once : )



 

              

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BreedinBull on 18 June 2015

When it launches next year if it has the specs to keep up with X1/PS4 and has a similar architecture to make porting the big third parties simple, it would be hard to turn down a Nintendo console with third party support a la GTA VI, FFXV, KH3, Destiny, COD, etc. Very hard to turn a console like that down. Balls in Nintys court to make that happen.

Edit: It also can't be more than $299.99 as by that time the others will be at or close to that price.



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Dusk on 18 June 2015
archer9234 said:
Dusk said:
Too_Talls said:


I'll throw out a general comment of fan boyism. SOME people will rule out buying their brand of choice in spite of anything. Notice how whenever there is a good anouncment on one side, the other side bands together to downplay it?

 

In any case I chose Never because nintendo consoles have been a poor choice for general entertainment for years now. I used to get all brands but from the wii generation, Nintendo Stopped caring about parity as the wii's games looked like Game cube games. That was the begininng  of the end in third party support. And I grow tired of Nintendo's rinse and repeat reahashing of their old games.

The same thing happened with the wii u, but it's far wose. a console that's support has been dropped in such a short time and a new one released in the middle of a generation has doom written all over it. 

Even if they manage a system more powerful than the ps4 and regain the 3rd party support they were lacking, I'd consider it a dead investment. For one thing, I believe I have bought my last game console. With each generation it feels more and more of a waste to get a console over a pc.

I don't know how else to say it, but I honestly don't see it being a worthwhile investment.


That's my point though. It's far too soon to say whether it's going to be a worth while investment or not. We know nothing about it.

As for the PC thing, I actually went the complete opposite direction as you. I found keeping up with PC gaming became far more expensive than it's worth. Gotta upgrade the GPU every couple years just to be able to play the newer games reasonibly, or at all in some cases, plus upgrade the RAM. Every 5 years or so you pretty much need to rebuild a brand new gaming PC from the MOBO up. The other option is to go all out on a high end gaming system that will likely set you back 2000-3000 bucks but should have you set for quite a while. In the end I ended up spending far more on my gaming PC than I did on the games I played on it. Sure you can make a very basic gaming PC for pretty cheap, slightly more than a console, but it won't have the longivity either, then you fall into the nearly constant upgrading. That's my experience with PC gaming anyway. I was very heavy into PC gaming for the better part of 20 years, that's why I have happily fallen back to console gaming lol.

What 5 years. I've have componets going on 7 years now. And you don't need the top of the line card. I use the GTX770 for GTA V and the like.  And my system cost $1200, when new. Nowhere near that $3000. With 24GB RAM and buying the I7 when it was brand new. Yeah its slower than whats out now. But it can still play top of the line stuff.

I was waiting for this argument. If you have a GTX 770 that is not 7 years old, nor is the i7. I'm glad you have components that you have had for 7 years... like your tower and DVD drive? The cables maybe? A fan?  So just from the two things you mentioned, a GTX770 was generally about $400 when it came out, now you can find it for a bit over $200. Depending on your i7, it can range anywhere from $300 up to like $1400. So either way, within that time period, 7 years, you have spent between $500 and $1800 depending when you purchased your tech and which tech you got. Now, read what I wrote before. So you have at least spent the same as a console in that time on your PC. Tell me how I'm wrong again?



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jigokutamago on 18 June 2015

As soon as I can, which is not actually anytime soon, because I have negative money.



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KdxlavkdX on 18 June 2015

I'd probably get it within the first 6 months.



ice on 18 June 2015

Voted Never because it seems unlikely, who knows though maybe Nintendo will surprise me.



IAmCrimsonLegion on 18 June 2015

If a wonky controller is not mandatory, I will probably purchase it within the first year.



noname2200 on 18 June 2015

Whenever it comes out with enough good releases. Might be launch, might be a few years later. Hopefully it's better than the Wii U...



Metallox on 18 June 2015

When a Pikmin, a Super Mario 3D, and an action game like Bayonetta are available.



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