Buying the losing console

No, never. I always buy a few years into a console's lifetime so that I can see what it offers and where it seems to be going. It's why I never bought a PSP or Vita. Also why I couldn't motivate the purchase of a Gamecube or Xbox over my PS2, despite it being the weakest.

My PS5 purchase was mostly motivated by the games I missed during the PS3/PS4 gen, I wouldn't have bought it only for its exclusives. If that was the case then Spider-Man 2 would have been infuriating lol.
 
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If you're not a company man or own stock, who cares besides fanboys? I tend to buy all consoles and enjoy them for what they are, not for their popularity.
 
My consoles are as follows
  • Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Sega Master System
  • Game Gear
  • Super Nintendo
  • Nintendo 64
  • Nintendo Gamecube
  • DIY PC1
  • Xbox
  • Xbox 360
  • DIY PC2
  • PlayStation 3
  • Nintendo Switch
  • DIY PC3
  • Xbox One
  • PlayStation 4
  • Xbox Series S
You win some, you lose some.
 
I had a Sega Game Gear instead of a Gameboy. I found that instead of buying games for my 'Gear, I was always buying batteries for my portable NBA Jam machine.
 
I got a PS3 when I was 13, 2 people in my entire school year had one. A year later I got a 360 and had so many people on my friends list I had to start deleting them.

The 360 did not lose that generation in the slightest. No one was playing Cod or Battlefield on a PS3. They were in party chat on their 360s after school every night.
 
Mibu no ookami said:
The DS outsold the PSP but I'd still go with the PSP today. No longer interested in Pokémon and the games on PSP were just much further ahead.
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DS vs PSP was the last time we had two competing systems with completely different libraries, and both having an embarrassing amount of good games.
The fanboy in me says that Castlevania, Phoenix Wright and Layton alone made the DS the vastly superior system. But the truth is, I never dived deep into the PSP's library.
 
Yeah. It did not seem like the XBox One really caught on. I still have one running.

I don't have a huge amount of XBox One games. I really use it for it's backwards compatibility.
 
Every Nintendo console/handheld I've ever bought was a losing console IMO. It's always FOMO that made me buy a 3DS, Wii, Wii U and Switch but I never played that many games on them. It was fun for a short while and the I went back to Playstation or PC and my Nintendo consoles started gathering dust.

I am just not enamored by Nintendo games. I've yet to finish a single Mario game, I find these games boring but I completed both Knack 1 & 2, Astrobot and half a dozen Ratchet & Clack games. The only Nintendo game I ever finished was the first Xenoblade and I played it on my PC using an emulator...
 
Series X - i dont see it as a loss though.

I bought cheap keys and played plenty of games that way - that wasnt possible on the PS platform. Also i had owned gamepass ultimate for peanuts for 3 years.

I also have a PC for the Sony single player games 🤷‍♂️
 
I bought a virtual boy and most of the expensive failed VR headsets and I hate VR. Makes me sick as a dog even if I liked it.

Don't feel bad. I bought 2x XSX on launch too. You play to win the game. Doesn't always work out.
 
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usually, the console in the lead becomes stale and the trailing console has something to prove and has to fight. PS3 for example was getting murdered in North America and had to fight. then usually are strong the following gen. (xbox this gen doesn't have a clue what its doing though)

PS4 after PS3
360 after XB
Wii after Cube
Switch after Wii U
 
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NeoIkaruGAF said:
DS vs PSP was the last time we had two competing systems with completely different libraries, and both having an embarrassing amount of good games.
The fanboy in me says that Castlevania, Phoenix Wright and Layton alone made the DS the vastly superior system. But the truth is, I never dived deep into the PSP's library.
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PSP was superb, however its visuals are plagued by an absolutely awful dithering used everywhere to simulate more gradients. This aged really poorly. DS however still looks amazing as it is almost always 2D.
 
360, Wii U, PS Vita, Series S. Sold the last one.

dont think i bought a "winning" console that wasn't a handheld. Bought a PS2 and PS3 but those were years after the fact.
 
The only one that I've ever regretted was the XSX. It's my first Xbox since the OG. I've always preferred Nintendo and Sony.

Now, I'm debating trading it in since I don't really play it or keeping it for BC disc compatibility in case it's the last Xbox that will have that capability.
 
Awesome Will Ferrell GIF
Intellivision with Atari adapter (my father's)
NES
SNES
Genesis
N64
PS
PS2
PS3
Wii
PS4
PS4 Pro
Switch
PS5
PS5 Pro

No losers in the bunch
 
Vaquilla said:
I had great times with my Megadrive, N64, OG Xbox, 360, and PS3 despite them losing the sales war.
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The PS3 and X360 weren't losing consoles, even if the Wii happened to move more units lifetime.

The Wii was totally irrelevant and inferior in every single way in comparison to those two, especially when it comes to the quantity and variety of quality games - hundreds of legendary, beloved titles - that the Wii didn't get because it was a totally different class of device.
 
Perrott said:
The Wii was totally irrelevant and inferior in every single way in comparison to those two, especially when it comes to the quantity and variety of quality games - hundreds of legendary, beloved titles - that the Wii didn't get because it was a totally different class of device.
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b-b-but Mario Gahlacksee!!!!
 
Can't say my experiences fit into the topic, but I can say that the PS5 Pro thing has finally started to bother me. I'm not buying into it though, since I do not want to hunt for a disc drive and PS6 might not be that far off.
 
I've owned almost every console ever made since the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. There are only a few I didn't get - Phillips CDi, Sega 32x, Neo-Geo (too damn expensive) and the first Xbox.

I've owned several consoles deemed failures and found enjoyment in each - Virtual Boy, Saturn/Dreamcast, Wii U and 3DO.
 
Yeah but i had alot of fun with all of them.

-Started with a ZX Spectrum 128k, never heard of Spectrum again after that. (Ppl now complain about day 1 patches, imagine a time were u had to wait 10 minutes for a game to boot, and this only when the game actually booted cuz a good amount of games i bought just never booted)
-Then came a Master System II and Game Gear.
-Then got a Commodore Amiga 600 (RIP Commodore)
-After that i think i got my 1st PC
-Then missing Sega got a Dreamcast (RIP Sega consoles)
-Then got an OG Xbox as MS got alot of the Sega games to the OG Xbox
-Then i won a PS2 in an M&M internet contest and comparing the games available to PS2 to what i was playing on Xbox it was clear to me i picked the wrong console for me. When MS killed the OG Xbox only 4 years after released it sealed the deal, going forward i would only buy Playtation consoles to complement my PCs.
-Then came the PS3, PS4 and PS5.

I still got a PSP (also won in a contest) and bought a Gameboy Advance, realised that nintendo consoles and portables in general are not for me as i used them very little.

Only console i regret buying was the Gameboy Advance, everething else, i had alot of fun with while i used them.
 
The 360 had a certain charm to it. You had all those JRPGs. Also, you had XNA that flopped.

We could have had a bunch of cool indie games, but it did not pan out.

...but we did get Limbo and Fez.
 
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I had an N64 and a GameCube, so I guess? I did miss some third party stuff, but there were enough great games on those machines that it didn't really bother me.

Edit: Guess neither of those actually lost, but they certainly didn't win.
 
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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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I had a buddy just like u, i got psx, he got saturn, then he got dreamcast and i got ps2, then he went full on pc coz got damaged for life after those 2 :P
 
Despite not really thinking it was a good console, I enjoyed my WiiU.
Fun games, solid web browser and the best Netflix console back then .
 
Perrott said:
The PS3 and X360 weren't losing consoles, even if the Wii happened to move more units lifetime.

The Wii was totally irrelevant and inferior in every single way in comparison to those two, especially when it comes to the quantity and variety of quality games - hundreds of legendary, beloved titles - that the Wii didn't get because it was a totally different class of device.
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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.
 
The Vita because Sony stopped supporting it pretty fast but it didn't ultimately matter because it's a great handheld emulator that I still use to this day, but what's with all the people saying the PS3 was a losing console, it wasn't.
 
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My console as a kid was a N64 , so sure. I also bought and loved my Wii U. Despite Microsoft's issues I still really like my Series X. Also love the Vita more than the 3DS
 
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i get all the consoles so it's a win win,

dreamcast, Wii U... loved em

didn't have the saturn though, the one console i missed
 
cireza said:
PSP was superb, however its visuals are plagued by an absolutely awful dithering used everywhere to simulate more gradients. This aged really poorly. DS however still looks amazing as it is almost always 2D.
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I'm more concerned about the terrible viewing angles on my PSP Street. The dithering doesn't bother me much.
 
Yes I buy them all, cuz I love em all.

I even support the playdate, you know the thing with the crank? Yes I own one.

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sega saturn over ps1 but i got v cop vf2 and d usa with it for free and come on die hard arcade was on it.
btw sega dynamite cop 1 and 2 remaster or remake when?
get on that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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