Shortest Time You have Ever owned a System for.

*Might not count as I had another 360*

I bought the Gears of War 3 Xbox 360 but had to return it the same day (well, do an online return) as the disc drive kept opening. Such a shame too, was a beautiful console with custom Gears sounds, etc, ah well.

Side note, I actually bought 2 consoles and 2 special editions with the statue for me and a friend in South Africia. The postage was the same cost as the statue bundle, about £90, but his console worked fine, thankfully.
 
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Bought a 360
It was a jet engine even behind my TV
Couldn't even load the blades without being laggy as shit
Gears was a boring cover shooter
The very next opportunity it was traded in

The official ownership time was somewhere up to 5 days, but the out of box time was 1 evening.

I've never been turned off a console so quickly.
 
Sold my Series X after a couple years for a PS5. Never sold a console before that other than maybe upgrading to a newer version of the same hardware. I actually really liked the console, but I like the PS5 better in the end I think.
 
Xbox Series S. Had it for a week, but the 500GB was just way too small for a system bought specifically for Game Pass.
 
I had a Sega CD as a kid I had for a year and then sold. I've kept all of my other systems except the Xbox One, which I sold after about 2 years.
 

Shortest Time You have Ever owned a System for.


Actually this generation 2021-2024 with the PS5. I wanted to play GT7 and Spider-Man, and actually ended up playing god of war Ragnarok on the ps4.
 
Less than an hour. I bought an Xbox XSX, but before it arrived, I changed my mind. I realized that I didn't actually want it. When it arrived, I mailed it back unopened for a refund.
 
Bought XSX and ps5 at release with the plan of only keeping one after a year. Sold XSX mostly because of gamepass as I didnt own anything and the ps5 won.
 
I owned a Nintendo DSi XL for all of a day. Bought it new, brought it home, opened it up, tried playing a game. Figured hey a bigger screen is good right? Wrong. The inter-pixel gaps of the screen were dreadfully large, made it look like I was looking through a window screen. Very half-ass and low effort and got returned pronto.
 
Had a Gameboy for a few days.

Left it in the car in plain view and it was gone when we got back 10 minutes later.
 
It was the DS for me. I bought it on release day, because being able to play a 3D game on a handheld game was something insane back then, truly revolutionnary, since GBA etc used to be only 2D games.
I bought it with Mario 64. After finishing it, I realized that no other games were as pretty as Mario 64, lot of stuff was actually still 2D, and there were not many games interesting me.
I ended up buying Need For Speed Underground 2, expecting something "similar" but obviously downgraded, from the ps2 version, and what I got was uber trash that felt and looked like a 5$ mobile game. I decided to sell the console after that lol. These are the only two games I owned on DS.

I sold it to my neighbour, and I bought the PSP a few weeks or so after its release.
Not long after that, my neighbour didn't find any interesting game on the DS, and when he saw me playing games on PSP, he then sold the DS too and bought the PSP :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
PS4 Pro
I bought this to play RDR2 on release, I played it and found the framerate so bad i ditched it after 90mins.

I then gave the console away to my brother in law around 6 weeks later.
 
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