Buying the losing console

I wasn't made of money as a kid so if I bought a console it was my only console.

I bought a Master System when the Nintendo was popular

I bought a Saturn when the Playstation was out

I bought an Atari Jaguar, and that was the last straw. From that point on I only bought consoles that were popular, and I was a happier man for it (Now I'm on PC)
 
RSLAEV said:
I wasn't made of money as a kid so if I bought a console it was my only console.

I bought a Master System when the Nintendo was popular

I bought a Saturn when the Playstation was out

I bought an Atari Jaguar, and that was the last straw. From that point on I only bought consoles that were popular, and I was a happier man for it (Now I'm on PC)
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If I hadn't purchased an Atari Jaguar then I wouldn't have been able to play Tempest 2000. One of my all time favorite games. I had no regrets owning that console, even if it was just for like 3 or 4 games.
 
N64 was the best "loser" console of all time.

Played much PS1 later on but wouldn't have traded my memories of goldeneye, kart, star fox, diddy Kong racing, smash or perfect dark for any of it
 
I had a Lynx and Dreamcast. At least I didn't get a virtual boy. Lynx I wasn't old enough to know about its viability. Dreamcast I was but i didn't care.

I liked my Lynx and being able to see what i was playing :)
 
I was a Genesis kid

Then got the N64, followed by GameCube.

Got a PS3 prior to the slim's release (that later bricked) before switching to 360 right before the Kinect era.

Got the Wii U at launch....

Then an Xbox One at launch....

Then the Series X at launch....

Glutton for punishment, perhaps. I don't really regret any of those but I really do remember how terrible it felt to be a Wii U owner. It had some gems for sure but overall the most disappointing Nintendo console I've owned by far
 
I was a big fan of the original Xbox console, so in that sense I guess I bought the "losing" one, in sales numbers. However, I had a lot of fun with it, and I liked being part of the "underdog" team. We whalloped them in the next round.

However, I jumped ship after that, and I've been with the "winning team" ever since (PS) - although I'm actually kind of uncomfortable about being on the "popular" side. I'm always a little suspicious of what is popular. It always seems like a mark of bad taste somehow, to do what the majority are doing.
 
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I've even bought the ad ons. Sega cd and 32x. Then Saturn. I also really regretted GameCube and Wii U. Had Dreamcast and 360 but loved those systems for couple years to few years respectively. I had game gear too. My brother had turbo grafix too.
 
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Humdinger said:
I was a big fan of the original Xbox console, so in that sense I guess I bought the "losing" one, in sales numbers. However, I had a lot of fun with it, and I liked being part of the "underdog" team. We whalloped them in the next round.

However, I jumped ship after that, and I've been with the "winning team" ever since (PS) - although I'm actually kind of uncomfortable about being on the "popular" side. I'm always a little suspicious of what is popular. It always seems like a mark of bad taste somehow, to do what the majority are doing.
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I know. I didn't want to buy a Playstation 2 like everybody else and went with Xbox as a spiritual successor of the DC. But truth to be told, I was annoyed that PS2 got Virtua Fighter 4 and Xbox didn't.
 
3DO was probably the worst failure I bought. I did enjoy it for its brief existence. I was playing games like Road Rash, Need for Speed, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and Samurai Showdown (didn't realize ant the time SS only ran at 30fps) and loving it. Probably more than I can't think of at the moment. Certainly had a better collection than the Atari Jaguar.
 
Not exactly betting on wrong horse but almost...

Right on beginning of the fifth generation, a friend and i, at the height of our 12 year's old, made a deal where I would buy a Saturn and he would buy a PSX.
Games like Time Crisis, Daytona, Die Hard Arcade, House of Dead and Dungeons and Dragons Mystara were huge things for us back then.

When Saturn started not receiving games like Resident Evil 2, Tomb Raider 2, FF7 etc. i ditched the deal faster than lightning (gun in Time Crisis).
 
Black_Stride said:
The Xbox 360 was legit my favorite console, I moved to XB1 for more Halo, Forza and Gears and the Series S is a Gamepass machine for my nephews now that im an "adult' im supposed to provide some entertainment whenever they come over or i visit my family and the Series S fits in my pocket.
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Are you me? I do exactly the same. I have a PS5 and a Switch though.
 
When I was young and didn't have money, picking the "winning" console mattered a lot more

Now I'm old and I have money so I don't give a fuck. I'll buy whatever has games I want to play on it
 
Ritsumei2020 said:
Have you ever bet on the wrong horse? I certainly have, multiple times.

I had a Neo Geo Pocket black and white, and later the colour one. I sold my PS1 to get it lol.

I had a Dreamcast, and refused to buy Sony because I believed Sony killed the DC (spoiler: Sega killed the DC)

I had an original Xbox and 360 (these were not bad consoles. They sold less, but the games were great)


What about you guys?
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Yea I bought a PS5 and Xbox Series X instead of upgrading my graphics card. Big mistake considering Steam is bigger than both 😆
 
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PlayStation home consoles don't really lose I suppose but I did have a WiiU for about a year and a half. When in college it was fun but once there were no more roommates to enjoy multiplayer...nothing

I don't get all these responses that seemed to imagine the question as "Do sales effect your enjoyment" and have to make statements about how sales don't matter to them. Like that's fine to say but it's completely irrelevant to the question asked
 
Did I just step in Sega and Xbox memorial Service thread?

My thoughts are with you and your families, stay strong.

Lol
 
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In 2015 I chose Xbox One, despite all those critics, worse multiplatform versions etc. And the backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 hadn't been announced yet.
 
I (almost) always buy the winners.
My choices where:
Gameboy
Snes
PS1
GBC
PS2
GBA
PS3 (almost got the loser here but didn't regret it)
PSP and DS (mostly played the psp)
PS4
PSVita (I've got a clear looser here)
PS5 (Bought a clear looser here. This is my last PS)
Steam Deck

I avoided Nintendo products as their games never drop in price.
 
32X.

I was so burned by it that I started reading video game magazines to be more informed, which led to me becoming a bigger nerd.
 
Only the Series X.

No Console was a loser that ive owned (all of them) as long as it had a killer app.

Fuck even the Jaguar had Tempest and AVP.
 
RoboFu said:
I have always obtained all the current consoles but did actually love some the " losing " consoles the most. Sega Saturn , Dreamcast , and PS3 come to mind.
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PS3 hardly was the losing console. In hindsight, X360 was as PS3 really caught steam after the first half of its lifecycle.
 
Ritsumei2020 said:
Have you ever bet on the wrong horse? I certainly have, multiple times.

I had a Neo Geo Pocket black and white, and later the colour one. I sold my PS1 to get it lol.

I had a Dreamcast, and refused to buy Sony because I believed Sony killed the DC (spoiler: Sega killed the DC)

I had an original Xbox and 360 (these were not bad consoles. They sold less, but the games were great)


What about you guys?
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N64
Saturn
Dreamcast
Gamecube
Wii-U
360 and OG X-Box
Intelivision (but my dad got that for me)
 
I or friends have owned every mainstream console that has ever been released in the United States, at some time or another, so yes, indeed I have backed the wrong horse in essence. The only ones I did not, was the Virtual boy, and Jaguar.

Not a collector at all, but I do have my Saturn, 32X, Dreamcast, original NES, Snes, in a cubby for display well off the beaten path in my house.

Man the 32x. What a bungled piece of hardware. Easily the funniest piece of kit I remember being released.

I also remember comparing the size of game carts of Snes, genesis, TG16, and Neo Geo carts back in the day. I was always enamored with the hue cards that came the TG16, and the first time I experienced the turbo express, blew my frickin mind. I mean, nothing was even in the ballpark at the time.

Good times.
 
Vaquilla said:
Two generations later and people are still salty about the Wii?
PS3 and 360 were great consoles, but objectively they lost that generation's sales war.
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There's nothing to be salty about.

Sony and Microsoft got hundreds of amazing state-of-the-art third-party games than the Wii didn't get in addition to each of their respective first-party offerings, which had Microsoft Studios and Sony WWS firing on all cilinders. And from the platform royalties coming out of those third-party titles alone, Sony and MS brought in much, much more revenue than Nintendo was doing from the Wii.

So they won. I don't care if the Wii sold 20M more to people who never bought a single game for the system other than the pack-in Wii Sports.
 
Perrott said:
There's nothing to be salty about.

Sony and Microsoft got hundreds of amazing state-of-the-art third-party games than the Wii didn't get in addition to each of their respective first-party offerings, which had Microsoft Studios and Sony WWS firing on all cilinders. And from the platform royalties coming out of those third-party titles alone, Sony and MS brought in much, much more revenue than Nintendo was doing from the Wii.

So they won. I don't care if the Wii sold 20M more to people who never bought a single game for the system other than the pack-in Wii Sports.
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Denial isn't just a river in Egypt it seems.

What you personally think of the consoles in question is beside the point, console wars are won and lost by who sells the most, always have been.

Your claim that Wii owners only bought Wii Sports is demonstrably false too; we know from Nintendo's own numbers that the Wii had an attach rate of 9 games per console.

PS3 and 360 lost.
 
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I always bought the underdog consoles.

Dreamcast vs PS2
Original Xbox vs PS2
PS3 vs 360

I was single and had money. Now I just chill with a PS5 because I have 3 other mouths to feed and I'm not in the mood to conduct another experiment.
 
The notion of the "losing" console automatically being worse is frankly pretty stupid. Are we gonna pretend like the Dreamcast wasn't a fantastic system? Or the original Xbox? No, we most assuredly are fucking not.

I mean, yeah, there were some total bum systems like the Jaguar, but it's usually clear from the outset that those types of systems were going to be turds. I don't think that's comparable to like... the Saturn, which was the loser of the big 3 that gen, but still an absolute goldmine of good games.
 
The only time I have ever ONLY bought the losing console was the Sega Genesis and I loved every second of it and would do it again.

Every gen since I have owned all consoles except the GCN.
 
I always had one console at a time to this day and we used to borrow/exchange the consoles with a cousin and friends. For example my cousin had the NES so my parents bought the Master System. I don't agree with term 'losing' since I enjoyed my time with all of them I think.
I may forget some but these are the consoles that I had:

Master System, Megadrive, Dreamcast
PC Engine, Supergrafx and imo the best hardware design to this day the TurboExpress
Neo Geo (The console and 'controller' were bigger than my 36cm tv lol)
N64
xbox, xbox360 RROD edition (the only console I couldn't resell/exchange)
PS Vita

I'm in the winning team now!
 
I try to buy them all. That way I'm always a winner lol. But that all stops next gen. I will be skipping PS6 and Xbox and going PC and Switch exclusively going forward. The PS exclusives eventually come to PC anyway and there are way too many games to play in the meantime. Xbox has gone 3rd party. I can afford to wait. I'd rather spend it now on a good GPU.
 
Generally the 'losing' console is alright in my view.

N64 had 20 or so of the best games ever made and they were all exclusive.

GameCube also had a fantastic library of games.

The PS3, which ended up eventually surpassing the 360 but had a very negative narrative around it (despite being an excellent piece of hardware) is on of my favourite consoles of all time despite losing to the Wii.

The 3DS, despite being a bomb compared to the DS, was also fantastic.

The Vita with its PS4 remote play and OLED screen, also great.
 
I pre ordered an Xbox One over a PS4. I loved the original Xbox and continued on with my fav console, the 360. It took me well over a year to get a PS4 but I was Xbox all the way.
 
You might say this happened to me with the Dreamcast. Still, I would argue that the DC was the winner in many ways and wouldnt trade it for a PS2, Xbox or GameCube (as time went by I ended up having them all).
 
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