I am posting this separately because it is a long post
TL;DR I splain my gaming life story
—I missed out on gen 1 and gen 2 consoles since I was born later, and I never had intrigue to find the hardware to try them out later. (I think I tried an Atari 2600 on an emulator for all of 5 seconds).
—My experience with Gen 3 was just the NES, I shared it with my 3 siblings and we only had a few games, but we did rent quite a few games over the years. I was terrible at video games at the time, and had to use a Game Genie a good bit just to finish most of the games I played. It was fun and new, though frustrating at times as well; there were only so many game over screens I would sit through before moving onto a different video game or activity.
—Gen 4 was way way awesome at they time. We got the SNES, the Genesis, the GameGear and each of us got our own GameBoys. I still used the GameGenie from time to time, but I had a lot more systems and games to choose from, so I was frustrated much less often. Plus, I could be by myself gaming on the Gameboy if I so chose, rather than having my brother irrationally yell at me. Also, the games from Gen 4 were amazing adventures in my imagination back then.
—Gen 5 for me was better in some ways and not so in others. I hated load times and limited memory cards, and wanted every game on the N64 because of that. The Saturn didn’t get many games and I didn’t understand why at the time. On the flip side of that, PS1 got tons of amazing games. So many in fact, my Mom gave away a bunch of my PS1 games to my cousins and I couldn’t even remember what was missing, I wasn’t really upset besides her going behind my back to do that. Gameboy Color was neat, but I more enjoyed the types of games that were on the consoles.
—Gen 6 was the GOAT in my own experience I played a good few games on the dreamcast, tons of RPGs on the PS2, and once I found how Gamecube had reduced load times and slowdowns (relative to PS2) it was my main platform. Oh, and GBA SP was spectacular, finally having an eaisly rechargeable battery in a handheld console, and I really appreciated having SNES ports on the go.
I played a ton of multiplayer games with College buddies on the GameCube; it was my first time of having a console actually assist my social life. :P
—Gen 7 was a mixed bag for me to say the least. I was really excited about the Wii; my imagination got the best of me, thinking Wii Sports was the start of great innovation to augment action in games in fun ways. Then, reality hit with a rough sack that was the waggle fest, and I was ready for it to be out the door quite soon after. Though, I guess at least IR pointing was well done in some Wii games. IMO, Multiplayer on the Wii was just below the GameCube. Also, way way too much shovelware to sift through to find good games on the Wii, I would actually get a bit tired from shuffling through shelves at the gamestore.
The DS was cool for a short while, pictochat with the siblings, some interesting games as well. After having the DS for a few years, I found myself frustrated by touch controls, I just wanted to use the buttons that my hands were already on. The dual screen stuff got old too, I did not want to look up and down and up and down ad-nauseum. I wanted seamlessness, 1 screen, 1 position for my hands, smooth gaming, comfortable.
PS3 was meh for me, I got a racing game with it, only to find out I could not play split-screen with my brother. I was baffled, I had never seen such a thing since maybe the NES days??? Many games lacked split-screen on PS3. I was not pleased. Over time I got fed up with the lack of genre representation on PS3: RPGs, platformers, etc., that I had much enjoyed on the PS2, were very few and far between on PS3. Many years later, the PS3 would go on to have an ok selection of things, but I was just so burnt out on downloads, patches, installs, still slow slow loading times, launch delays, etc.
PSP was a very pleasant surprise for me this Generation. I actually didn’t have any interest in it for many many years. My brother got a PSP 1000 early on, I saw him play it every now and then, but the library of games just wasn’t for me at the time. Years later, I bought a PSP 2000 for when I went to visit him so we could play together. We ended up not playing much together during that trip, and shortly after, my PSP went to the deep dusty drawer of forgotten cables and junk storage. It wasn’t until even more years later, I was researching to collect retro games and noticed a lot of interesting PSP games. At that point, most PSP games were $2 to $20, and so I went on an online spree. In the end, I have more PSP games that any system I ever owned, to this day. And, it was a ton of fun to play, game after game, on such a nice handheld. :)
—Gen 8 however has been the lowest point for me really. I tried the Wii U at a Kiosk at the store and it was all the stuff I disliked about the DS, but worse since the screens were so far apart. Never bought it.
The PS4 looked like a PS3 minus the PS1/PS2/PS3 backwards compatibility that redeemed my enjoyment of the PS3 as a whole, also longer load times, limited game library, and longer install times really signed the foreclosure for me. Never bought it.
I bought the 3DS on launch day. There were very few games on it for quite a while, though I did play some DS games on it. It was overall better than the DS since it focused mostly on the top screen and used the buttons more than the touchscreen, so there was less switching and touching, but at this point I was deep in PSP land enjoying myself, and just hopped on the 3DS for the occasional game release.
PS Vita was all heart break. This was supposed to be the great successor of the PSP. I was very hyped. When I got it, I found the home screen did not work at all by pushing the sticks or buttons. The memory card was very expensive. And the bubble menus were lame compared to the PSP’s XMB. And at 100 icons (including the preinstalled bloatware), I had to start deleting games which just happened to be tied to save files. I was peeved for sure.
I bought almost every major physical release for a few years and then finally gave up. There were to many droughts for people who can’t read Japanese; and, the games that did come, I often did not enjoy as much as the games I had played on the great PSP.
BTW, I never had a Xbox/360/XB1 since I also had a PC throughout the years anyway.
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