I dont know if this has been done before but here it goes:

List every console and handheld you have ever owned. If you switched brands then please explain why. Also if you continued to stick with a specific brand explain your reasoning.

Consoles- Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Xbox, Xbox 360

Handhelds- Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Advance

I switched from Nintendo to Xbox because after playing Halo:CE I grew extremely fond of shooters and saw Xbox live as one of the best ways to play FPS's in a large community. I still enjoy other genres alot, Brawl is one of my favorite fighters, however i'm a poor college student that can't afford multiple consoles :(

Consoles-NES, Genesis series 2, SNES, N64, GameCube, Xbox, Xbox 360

Handhelds-Game Boy Pocket, GB Color, Game Boy Advance

Switched from Ninty to MSFT b/c I grew out of there repetitive IPs and the "Bungie effect" :)

Consoles: NES, SNES, N64, PS1, GC, Wii.

Handhelds: DS

nes, snes, n64, gamecube, wii, ds

Consoles ( in chronological order)
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SNES, dreamcast, N64, gamecube, wii


HAndhelds
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GBC, GBAsp, DS, DSlite

Consoles: N64, PS1, GC, PS2, XB, xbox 360, Wii, PS3

Handheld: Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance SP, Nintendo DS(original model), PSP

I went from Nintendo to Sony because GC sucked in my opinion. I went from Sony to Microsoft cause i think Xbox 360 is the best console on the market right now and Sony isn't impressive right now

P.S.- the reason i own every console this gen is because i wanted a Wii60 and i bought and sold 5 PS3s when it originally came out for $1,100 each. I kept one of them for myself. the 60GB one. Other than that, i'm just rich bitch!

Coleco
Atari
C64
NES
Gameboy
SNES
N64
PS
PS2
Xbox
PS3
360
Wii
PSP

Consoles- NES, Genesis, SNES, N64, PS1, Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox 360.

Handhelds- Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Playstation Portable.

Almost all of them.

Mike from Morgantown

(Pong Units, Atari Video Pinball, Coleco Tank, Modern dedicated units)
(RCA Studio II, Fairchild Channel F, Bally Astrocade, Emerson Arcadia 2001)
(Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, XEGS/8-bit computer, Jag, Lynx)
(Mattel Intellivision, Aquarius) (Colecovision/ADAM)
(Commodore 64, Vic-20) (TI-99/4A) (Magnovox Odyseey, O2)
(NES, SNES, N64, GC, Wii, Gboy, GBA, GBA-SP, DS, Vboy)
(SMS, Genesis, CD, 32X, Saturn, DC, GameGear, Nomad)
(TG-16) (3DO) (PSX, PSone, PS2) (Xbox)

PS -- I still have them all. And all but the original Odyseey work.

So when you guys switch brands is it because of games, price or some other factor. I think one of the biggest factors for me was friends.
I lived in Ireland for three years and when I got back to the states and saw all my friends with xbox's having a blast playing the same games together and setting up LANs I got hooked