There's been a lot of changes in the last few years (and this year) - people moving platforms/ecosystems, new platforms coming out, gaming tastes changing, etc.

Whats everyone's platform history in 2025?

For me I'm across Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox, PC and iOS

I got a Switch OLED last year (which I only use for traveling and when I'm outside home) and a new gaming desktop PC - also just pre-ordered a Switch 2.

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My gaming platform history is long and pretty diverse

-Super Nintendo (1991)
Games: Super Mario World

-Nintendo 64 (1998)
Games: Yoshi's Story

-GameBoy Color (1999) - Pikachu Special Edition
Games: Pokemon Yellow

-Nintendo GameCube (2001)
Games: Super Smash Bros Melee

-GameBoy Advance (2002)
Games: Breath of Fire I

-Playstation 2 (2003)
Games: Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy X

-Playstation Portable (2005)
Games: Darkstalkers Chronicle Chaos Tower

-Nintendo DS Lite (2007) - Black
Games: Pokemon Diamond

-Nintendo Wii (2008)
Games: Super Smash Bros Brawl

-Playstation 3 (2011) - Slim
Games: Final Fantasy XIII, Ratchet and Clank All 4 One

-First Gaming Desktop (2012) - HP Pre-Built, Radeon HD 7850 build)
Games: Left 4 Dead 2, Terraria

-Nintendo 3DS XL (2013) - Zelda Link Between Worlds Edition
Games: Pokemon X, The Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds, Bravely Default (Pre-Ordered)

-Nintendo WiiU (2014) - Black
Games: NintendoLand, Super Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Mario Kart 8, Super Smash Bros for WiiU

-First (and only) Gaming Laptop (2014) - Asus
Games: N/A

-iPhone 6 Plus (2015) - 512 GB
Games: Final Fantasy Record Keeper, Final Fantasy I, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III 3D

-Playstation 4 (2015)
Games: Final Fantasy XV, Uncharted Trilogy

-Second Gaming Desktop (2019) - CyberPower pre-built, RX 580 Build
Games: N/A

-Nintendo Switch (2020) - Battery improved model
Games: Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Pokemon Sword, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

-iPhone 13 Pro Max (2021) - 1 TB
Games: N/A

-Xbox Series S (2022)
Games: Soulcalibur II

-Playstation 5 (2023) - God of War Ragnarok Bundle
Games: God of War Ragnarok

-Xbox Series X (2023)
Games: N/A

-Switch OLED (2024)
Games: N/A

-Third Gaming Desktop (2024) - CyberPower pre-built, RTX 4070 SUPER Build
Games: N/A

-Switch 2 (2025)
Games: Mario Kart World (*)

Next to purchase more than likely: iPhone 17 (Pro Max) - hoping for a 2 TB model since I'm like 900 GB out of 1 TB :x

Here are the platforms I owned during each generation and my preferences from best to worst.  I'm also including the arcade, even though I didn't own one, because it was a primary platform for a significant time period.

Generation 2 (early 80's)
1) Arcade;  2) Atari 2600 

Mid 80's
Arcade

Generation 3 (Late 80's)
1) NES (slightly over)  2) Arcade  (Both platforms were amazing!)

Generation 4
1) PC;  2) SNES (slightly over)  3) Genesis;  4) Arcade  (all 4 platforms were great, but there was still a clear hierarchy)

Generation 5
1) PC;  2) Playstation

Generation 6
1) PC;  2) PS2;  3) GBA;  4) GameCube

Generation 7
1) Wii (slightly over) 2) PS3; 3) DS (slightly over) 4) PSP  

Generation 8
1) Wii U;  2) PS4;  3) 3DS;  4) XBox 1  (worst period of gaming yet)

Generation 9
Switch

You mean you spent a lot of quarters at the arcade? Damn that must have been a lot of money lol

I DID spend a lot of quarters (and tokens) at the arcade depending on what the machines took.  It was so much that it was hard to measure.  I can tell you that for the mid to late 80's my favorite platform was definitely the arcade.    I even preferred it a lot over the various computers my friends had.  This was before I could drive though, so the Atari 2600 was nice when I couldn't make it to the arcade.  It felt weird in the late 80's that I would often ignore the arcade if a huge game released on the NES like a Mario or Zelda.  In between major releases I would go to the arcade when I could.  Sega had some great arcade games then, and yet the NES was such a fantastic console that I ended up going less and less compared to the early and mid 80's.

Damn, must have been fun.

Sadly my only experience with Arcades is in the 1990s and early 2000s - but only as a observer , didnt get to play anything lol.

A reason why I'm grateful that a lot of arcade games and collections of arcade games are coming out on modern platforms and PC.

Switch is the most magical console I have owned since Dreamcast. It gave me new games. It gave me new games in an old style. It helped revive old genres and series. It brought over games from 30 years ago that never received an English release. It got a ton of SEGA Saturn. SEGA Dreamcast. SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive. Turbografx 16/PCEngine. Neo Geo. Arcade and more back from the dead. Remakes of amazing games few played in the west or no one did. It gave me every Xenoblade game. New IPs I fell in love with. Daemon X Machina. Astral Chain and more. Every Bayo game. This console spoke to my tastes 1000x and then some. Not sure on digital (mostly arcade or smaller stuff) but physical, I own 165 games for it. More than any other system I own.

Okay here's my list of systems. Still active ones are bold, inactive but still operational are underscored, and scrapped or lost ones are stroke through.

1. Game & Watch: Fire
2. Game & Watch: Octopus
3. C64
4. Game & Watch: Mario Bros
5. Amstrad CPC 464 (this and the C64 somehow got lost while moving)
6. Game & Watch: Bomb Sweeper
7. 1. PC: i286, VGA GPU, 2MB asynchronous DRAM, 50MB HDD
8. NES
9. Master System II
10. Game Boy
11. 2. PC: AM486 DX40, XGA GPU, 16MB (Later 48MB) FPM DRAM, 100MB + 400MB HDD 
12. SNES
13. Megadrive (Genesis for North Americans)
14. 3. PC: Pentium 166MMX, Matrox Millenium, 64MB EDO RAM, 10GB HDD
15. Game Boy Color
16. 4. PC: Pentium 233MMX, Matrox Millenium + Voodoo II, 128MB EDO RAM, 8GB HDD (bought off a friend to finance his wedding)
17. 5. PC: Pentium III 450, NVidia Riva TNT, 256MB RAM SDRAM, 60GB HDD
18. Game Boy Advance
19. Gamecube
20. PSOne (gift from a friend)
21. 6. PC: Athlon 64 3000+, NVidia FX 5800 (later 6800), 512MB DDR SDRAM, 300GB HDD
22. PS2
23. N64 (both the PS2 and N64 from my mother marrying someone with both consoles)
24. Wii
25. DS Lite
26. 7. PC: Athlon II X4 635, ATi HD 5770, 4GB DDR2 SDRAM, 1TB HDD
27. Wii U
28. 1. Laptop: Intel 7700HQ, NVidia 1050Ti, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD
29. Switch
30. 2. Laptop: AMD 7735HS, AMD 7600S, 16GB DDR5-5200, 1TB +2TB SSD

So, that's about it, though I feel like I forgot something Edit: The 4 Game & Watch models we have I forgot!. I didn't mention my phones because I honestly don't know where they would fit into this timeline - and because I don't know all the model numbers of the old cellphones I had (though to be fair, I don't think I played much on them, if at all)

Was thinking of making this thread around the launch of Switch, but might as well post here.

1988 - LCD games (handheld)
1990 - Gameboy (handheld)
1993 - Initiation to PC (default "console")
1994 - MegaDrive (console)
1994 - Mega-CD (console)
1996 - C64 (family oldschool repair)
2002 - Nokia s40 J2ME (mobile)
2003 - Sinclair ZX81 (family oldschool repair)
2004 - Nokia s60 Symbian (mobile)
2005 - N-Gage (mobile)
2007 - HTC Touch WM6 (mobile)
2007 - Wii (console)
2008 - DS Lite (handheld)
2008 - iPod Touch (mobile)
2012 - HTC Desire C Android (mobile)
2012 - WiiU (console)
2015 - Samsung Note 4 Android (mobile)
2017 - Switch (console)
2018 - Samsung S8+ Android (mobile)
2022 - Xiaomi POCO F3 (mobile)
2025 - Switch 2 (console)

My PC gaming was spent through 6 desktops and 4 laptops.
Was trying to detail the PCs this time around but can't remember all the details and upgrades.

My family started with a i286 which was later upgraded to i386 and i486.
I remember having a Pentium i586 PC in my bedroom around the 90s.
Afterwards we made an AMD Athlon build that was used for some years.
We jumped back to Intel with Pentium Dual-Core.
Around this time we passed to buying pre-built PCs with HP:
HP Pavilion Vista Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
HP Slimline ???
HP Pavilion ???

Graphics cards are a bit of a blur I do remember a red ATI card, but what impacted me more were the sound cards. We had Disney's Sound Source for example and playing Dick Tracy with that sounded awesome. Afterwards you obviously upgraded to Creative's Sound Blaster cards.

Now for the laptops:
First laptop was a beast, so heavy and big, a Sony Vaio PCG.
Got myself an Acer Aspire Timeline with a CULV dualcore, an actual portable PC.
The plastic design started to break and went with Lenovo Yoga 3, this was my first laptop with touchscreen.
And recently bought the Asus Zenbook Duo 14 to experience the dual screens.

NES, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, Saturn, Xbox 2, Wii, PS3, PS4, Wii-U, Xbox 3, Switch, PS5... in that order. For handhelds, it was Gameboy, GBA, GBA SP, PSP, DS, 2DS.

I've just about seen it all. The good, the bad, the everything.

I've owned GBA, PSP, DS, Wii and a Switch as far as consoles go. Only have the switch at the moment.