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I am mainly (50% and above timeshare) a...

Nintendo gamer 25 32.05%
 
Sony Gamer 15 19.23%
 
Xbox gamer 7 8.97%
 
Steam/PC gamer 28 35.90%
 
Mobile phone gamer 2 2.56%
 
VR gamer 1 1.28%
 
Total:78

Depends on the year, some years I play more Nintendo games, some years like when i had Playstation plus or Xbox Gamepass I played more Playstation or Xbox. Nintendo makes my favorite games, but I do game on Playstation and less so on Xbox.



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This year I've basically been 100% Nintendo.  If you take the past 5 years into account, I'm still around 85-90% Nintendo.



From 2003-2015, almost exclusively Nintendo.
Starting in 2015, some Steam/Windows games were added to my lineup.
From 2019-present, I'm predominantly Sony. The only exceptions have been when I was heavily playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons.



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

"Let go your earthly tether, enter the void, empty and become wind." - Guru Laghima

35% PC gamer (Since 2011)

30% Nintendo gamer (Since 1991)

20% Playstation gamer (Since 2003)

10% Xbox gamer (Since 2022)

5% iOS mobile gamer (Since 2015)

Last edited by BasilZero - on 01 May 2025

Lately 100% PSVR2 gamer.

An hour at night, 7 hours a week is about what I spend on gaming currently.



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70% Nintendo, 25% PS1, 5% retro on obscure platforms.



SvennoJ said:

Lately 100% PSVR2 gamer.

An hour at night, 7 hours a week is about what I spend on gaming currently.

Nice to see people keeping it alive. A real pity it didn't catch like PSVR or Quest 3. 



SanAndreasX said:

70% Nintendo, 25% PS1, 5% retro on obscure platforms.

That's cool, a lot of people are moving back to older systems. Couldn't go wrong buying a PS2 with back compat and building a library of all those niche gems without a dam subscription fee for a limited supply.



LegitHyperbole said:
SvennoJ said:

Lately 100% PSVR2 gamer.

An hour at night, 7 hours a week is about what I spend on gaming currently.

Nice to see people keeping it alive. A real pity it didn't catch like PSVR or Quest 3. 

There is an active community, see r/psvr https://www.reddit.com/r/PSVR/new/

But I doubt PSVR2 has crossed 2 million sales yet, it's definitely behind PSVR1.

About 200K people have now tried RE4 on PSVR2, while RE7 reached 1.25 million PSVR1 players. Unfortunately there's no data on RE8, which I assume is higher than RE4 since RE8 was a launch window game like RE7 for PSVR1. (It's also a better VR implementation, and was already available cheaper)

The numbers aren't great. Hitman WoA is awesome in VR though, despite it not using the OLED nor HDR. (It's color graded like a PS3 game with limited RGB range, looks 'washed out' in the headset) However standing on the tower in Dubai and looking dozens of stories down through the glass floor, that just doesn't translate on a screen!

Hitman has become more of a vacation destination than a game. I spend 2 to 3 hours (3 nights) exploring each level completely before killing anyone. And then my preferred method is throw a screw driver for instant kill. I haven't fired a weapon since the tutorial. You have two hands in VR, you can knock 2 people out before reloading your hands. Most things will do, even a folded up newspaper can knock people out, 47 has a wicked throwing arm!

I have lots of games lined up to play on PSVR2. It's impossible to keep up with releases with only 1 hour play time a day, and that's only buying the good stuff. For the maybe 2 million user base it's very well supported.

Anyway it's a great way to unwind from the day, escape to Dubai again tonight :)



2024 it was probably 70% Nintendo, 20% Mac, 10% Mobile/Mac/Apple TV/Roku, and probably a small amount Sony, the last time I played was Xenogears on Vita, and that might have been 2023.


I'd play largely casual games on Mobile, which I can also play on Mac/Apple TV - the Roku stuff is built into my TV, but I find it a bit flakey (like the screensaver closing my apps and missing search results for items that actually exist on the platforms I use) so I tend not to use it. By casual games, I mean games that I can play for 6 months to 2 years (or more) at a few minutes a day - I became a fan of casual games in the 1990s with an online browser game series that was popular in Sweden called Utopia. The other 20% of Mac was almost entirely Paradox grand strategies.

2025 - 100% Nintendo because so much dropped this year that appeals to me. It'll remain that way for the next few months after Switch 2 at the least.

I did used to do a lot of gaming on Playstation in the past, I was a big fan of RPGs in the PSX era, and later in the Sony handheld era. With the PS2, there was less I was fan of, but I quite enjoyed the GTA games and certain RPGs - I'd say FFX was probably my favourite of those. And after that, I did play a lot of the Sony handheld line. While I do consider myself mainly a Nintendo fan, nearly lifelong, the N64 and Gamecube were a bit of a dark age for me - I did not get into those consoles. The Wii U was also not really my thing, but I did like the RPGs on it (Xenoblade Chronicles X and Earthbound especially).

But really, my main genres are strategy, sandbox, RPGs, and games that appeal to family/local multiplayer - although, admittedly less so these days than (say) the Wii/DS era, even the early Switch era.



I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.