Shortest Time You have Ever owned a System for.

I bought a Gameboy Advance that I traded for a cellphone within a couple of months, The cellphone had a backlight. :)
I think the Kinect Kamera for the VCR XBone got traded into Gamestop pretty quick. I forget how long till Microsoft no longer made it mandatory.
 
Got a NES for Christmas in '86.
Two years later my mother gave it away to my cousins because she said 14 is too old to still be playing video games.
 
Got my launch preorder PS4, realized there were no games I actually wanted to play coming out anytime soon, sold it two days later for a 200 Euro profit.
 
WiiU.

I picked up and held the gamepad and just put it the fuck back down again.

Never touched it again (or another Nintendo console for that matter).
 
Neo-Geo CD. It was stolen from me From a so-called "friend" about 2 weeks after I purchased it. - This was 30 years ago, I still hold the grudge.
 
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My first Sega Saturn I only had for a weekend

me, my brother and cousin played and beat all the arcade games we wanted

And since we were a short bus ride from the arcade in the mall we figured out that it didn't make sense to keep
since we also already had a PlayStation and we could use the money for PSX games and arcade tokens

Had it in my room friday after school by monday afternoon it was gone lol
 
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I'd say xbox one s cause I bought 3 xbox one or the first 360 cause of the rrod but the closest would be my second pc, I rushed to buy it mainly for school and watching videos back in youtube launch year. I was fascinated by youtube back in 2005 and it definitely stole my gaming time.
 
Amiga 2000 - blew up with a very funky smell and smoke a matter of seconds after switching it on (TBF, it was an old Bullfrog devkit and had been in a crumbling old shed for years prior).
 
I had my parents purchase me about 10 Chinese knockoffs of NES. They lasted from 1 week to 3 months. They were utter shit, but played pirate copies of Darkwing Duck and Super Contra.

And btw, box art on those yellow cartridges always lied.

Then I finally got a hacked PS1 which works even today, but I don't use it now because I don't have a CRT anymore.
 
PSP, PS3 and PS Vita, pretty much 6 months each, I needed money for the PSP and PS3 when I sold them, and the PS Vita was way too small for my hands
 
Xbox series X, owned it for maybe a few weeks and realized i couldn't justify owning every latest console with the limited amount of time I have to play. Not to mention there weren't that many interesting games. I won't ever buy another xbox, If I do play xbox now it's via gamepass on pc when I resub.
 
Ps4. Got the uncharted collectio bundle. Didn't sell it, but we packed it back up and stored it someplace after 2 months.
 
PS5 Pro.

Bought it 2 weeks ago, played some games with Pro patches. Looks great, but...

Sold it yesterday to go back to PC/Switch (2).
 
I've never sold a console, but my first PS4 had an internal issue and had to be replaced after one year.
 
Never touched my 1 year old sega saturn again after i bought a ps1, it was still in my house but completely abandoned.
 
I don't sell my hardware now, but in the past I have sold my Amiga CD32 after about a year of ownership. That was enough to find out there aren't many games to use the extra CD storage. Obviously I regret it now, even though the money I got from that deal helped to fund the purchase of the first PlayStation.
 
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Vita. Had it for 6 months or so but found I was hardly using it. Sold it on.

It's weird though because now all these years later I almost exclusively play on handhelds. Seems the PSV was here too early for me
 
Pretty much the original NES. I bought one in the spring of 86 around its national release and got rid of it September/October of the same year. The problem was that there was basically no games for it once you got beyond Super Mario Bros(pack-in) and Kung-Fu. So of course in 87 is when the flood of games finally hit. Just in case anybody didn't know that the NES did not have many games for a very long time. (But there was no competition so it didn't matter.) I did eventually get one later when the best game ever released for the NES came out, Pro-Wrestling.
 
PS3. I think I owned it for 3 years before giving it away to a relative. I was a trophy chaser and played a few critically acclaimed western developed cinematic games in a row that had me convinced at the time that I had aged out of gaming as a hobby. I wasn't interested in the Wii or Xbox.

Even though that was the shortest ownership period I had for a console, I still had more games for it than some others like GBC and GBA. I do think it was Sony's worst generation, but it was my poor game selection and trophy hunting making those games feel even more like work that lead to calling it quits. I can understand why some others had a much better experience.
 
When I was young I sold my Genesis and a little later PS1, I had owned them for years at that point so I can't really say how long to answer the question that OP is asking. What I can say though is that I came to regret both of those sales and I've learned not to sell consoles, ever.
 
Got a used 360 on a great deal with PGR, Top Spin, Tomb Raider, CoD. Enjoyed it for a month. Someone offered me twice what I paid. Bought a PS3 on launch day and when I was about to get a new 360 the RRoD started to happen. Lost interest while waiting for a confirmed solution and never got another.
 
Nintendo 3ds (a month or two)
Brought it to work and somebody stole it. They got a bunch of other stuff from the locker room as well.
 
Nintendo Wii or the PS3, either one of them. After playing the games I want for the PS3 I sold it and moved to PC fully. Both were owned for the shortest time, I had the PS3 before the Wii and also the Wii a bit longer after selling the PS3 For the Wii I didn't even want it but my Uncle got two of them cause of his memebership reward or something like that from gambling in Atlantic City so he gave his kids one and also one to me.

I would say I regret selling the PS3 not because of the games but because of the Bluray player it has. Wasn't a big movie guy at the time but now I am. And I feel like collecting some physical movies so I regretted selling it. Although who knows if the PS3 would still work now even if I still had it.
 
I think it might have been the PS5, I picked it up, forced myself to complete Spiderman, bounced off Demon's souls and played a reasonable amount of Days Gone. Then suddenly I hadn't turned it on in a couple of months.
 
Impulse bought the ice-silver psp with daxter packin but returned it a few days later. Was neat but couldn't get over a spinning disk on a handheld. Ended up getting a pspgo a few months later and it's still a decent portable today.
 
Managed to find a series x back when it was rare.

Ended up returning it a few days later because "wait, why tf did i buy this? I already have these games on my pc"
 
GameBoy Advance, dont remember how long i kept it, but it was short, sold it to buy the GBA SP, and that one also didnt got much use and ended selling it too in less than a year. Only game i enjoyed in these machines was the excelent Advance Wars.
 
Bought the Saturn at launch and returned it a few days later. Funny enough, it's become one of my favorite retro consoles to play once I tapped in the import market. The 2D fighters and Shmups are top notch.
 
Bought an Xbox One during Black Friday one year. Was the Gears bundle. Already owned a PS4, and realized I had no reason to own that Xbox at the time and got rid of it like 2 weeks later.

I did get one again later down the road, but that was probably the shortest time I owned a console.
 
I honestly think it was the original Xbox for me. I got one primarily for Phantom Dust. Never bothered with Xbox Live at the time so the staying power was kind of lost on me. I think I traded it towards an Xbox 360 around launch. I think the runner-up may have been the Xbox One. I just did not like what they did with that system, it was such a steep decline from the 360, especially the dashboard and everything.

One of the worst things is knowing that I traded so many systems over the years. But I never got mad at my past self or anything, I was a kid, and for awhile I didn't have a job or had a very minimum wage job. So to get the next best thing I had to do what I had to do. That being said, it's kind of a blessing because I would've had to haul a lot more over the years if I kept everything.
 
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Maybe a month or so. Got the switch when Pokémon came out. Couldn't believe how bad the game was. Sold shortly after.
 
I worked at Best Buy at the time. Vita releases and the store demo's are very impressive. I buy one and take it home to find out that I can't really do anything with it unless I buy an incredibly overpriced Sony memory stick. I returned it the next day. In hindsight, I probably should have just gotten over it, but I couldn't get over the fact that there was absolutely no internal memory to play around with.
 
Gamecube - after completing Twin Snakes I sold it.... Just wasn't for me I was so into Xbox and Xbox live to care for it.
 
Xbox One, the VCR one.

Had it for like less than a year as a Halo machine and then sold it without any regrets. Even Series X was parked under my TV for almost 2 years thanks to Forza Horizon.
 
I think its 360, I bought it around 2007 for it JRPGs but I sold it off in mid-late 2010 because it stopped making games I like.
 
Bought a Switch and sold it after a month. The games just didn't do it for me and the lack of power and online features were a letdown. Nintendo is just no longer for me, will definitely get one for the kids in the family though.
 
I'm pretty sure I sold my Sega Game Gear after I discovered replacing batteries ended up costing me more than the system itself after a month.
 
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