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Anyone else have all 3 next gen consoles?
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blurredvision
Lifer
I have a 360, and just recently sold my Wii to get a PS3. Do I count? 😛
Locut0s
Lifer
Sold your Wii to get a PS3!? Yes you count. But why would you sell your Wii to get a PS3? I use my PS3 mainly as a Blu-Ray player, it was a dirt cheap Blu-Ray player when it came out and it played all the PS2 and PS1 games plus the promise of all the PS3 games but the Wii is still the better system game wise right now.
blurredvision
Lifer
I sold it for a few different reasons. I originally bought the Wii for my wife, who is a non-gamer by all definitions. She thought the Wii would help her get into my hobby a bit, and she never even attempted to touch the thing after 2 weeks of owning it. I ended up buying Metriod, played it for a couple of days and got bored with it. So I didn't even turn the system on for a month, then it was unplugged for another month.
So I sold it and bought a PS3. I use the blu-ray player a lot, and there are a ton of PS2 games that I haven't played, so the game library is pretty decent for me 🙂.
EDIT: I've gotten more use out of my PS3 in 3 weeks of owning than I did in 4 months of owning the Wii. So, for me, it was a wise decision.
Deeko
Lifer
meh, when I was in high school I made boat loads of money (worked at circuit city back when they had commission....sweet), and no real bills outside of car insurance and cell phone. So naturally I blew it all on home theater and computer equipment....and I certainly don't regret it. Now I'm 23 and have a nicer HT setup than I should, haha.
to the OP, I only have a PS3. I think the Wii would get old after a half hour, although I might get a 360 some day.
DivideBYZero
Lifer
You're standing on my dick.
Deeko
Lifer
Well, in retrospect, sure it would be nice to have that money now - but I'm not really behind the curve, other high school kids wasted their money on expensive clothes or a car or something anyway...how many kids actually start saving for their first house when they're in high school?
purbeast0
No Lifer
MikeyLSU
Platinum Member
I'm similar to Blurred Vision.
I have had all 3 systems, but at different times. Got a 360 last summer year to hold me off till I got a PS3.
Got a Wii at launch.
Sold the 360 in the spring cause I wasn't playing it. Sold the Wii early in the fall because I wasn't playing it and got a PS3.
Use it for gaming and blu ray player. Just like him, I get much more use out of it than I ever did the Wii(after the first 2 months).
I have had all 3 systems, but at different times. Got a 360 last summer year to hold me off till I got a PS3.
Got a Wii at launch.
Sold the 360 in the spring cause I wasn't playing it. Sold the Wii early in the fall because I wasn't playing it and got a PS3.
Use it for gaming and blu ray player. Just like him, I get much more use out of it than I ever did the Wii(after the first 2 months).
randomlinh
Lifer
Did she ever play nintendo as a kid? Have you tried a DS? I unintentionally got my friend's wife hooked on it. It was more a tool to keep her busy when we worked on our cars. She is thoroughly excited with it... and has a better appreciation when he gets engrossed in games.
Aikouka
Lifer
Sounds like a $4k wang enhancement based on this thread 😱.
I only have 2/3 but I might go grab a Wii this weekend since Mario is supposedly good. That means I'll have to wake up to grab one on Sunday. Which stores usually put them out Sunday mornings? I have these local stores: Toys R Us, Target, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, EB Games and K-Mart (had to include it for completeness sake 😛). I remember Target supposedly putting them out on Sunday morning, but I'm not too sure.
Krakn3Dfx
Platinum Member
I have all 3, but in my defense, the 360 was a XMas gift the year it came out (I have a cousin with more money than brains, and he bought 3 of them for $800 apiece when they launched, one of him, one as a gift for me, and one as a gift for some nephews), so I didn't pay for that one. I bought the Wii for my kids' XMas last year, and we have consistently had at least one title that we can all play and enjoy together as a family, even my wife, who pretty much hates video games. I bought the PS3 for myself, I had scored and sold a PC that I paid maybe $150 building between parts laying around and stuff I bought out of pocket, for $500, and on my way home from dropping it off for the guy, I stopped and picked up a 60GB PS3 at Circuit City with the money. It was the week they had the free controller + 1 free game deal, and I got the 5 free BD movies by mail. Yes, I could have waited, I figured they were going to have a $400 model by Xmas, but I also knew the hardware based PS1/PS2 emulation was a big deal to me, since I never really owned a PS2, and there is this huge backlog of PS2 titles that I wanted to play, especially survival horror stuff like Siren, Haunting Ground, and the various Resident Evil titles.
So yes, I have all 3, much to my wife's disgust. Between the PS3 and 360, I've bought maybe 5 games, there's not a lot that interests me in console gaming, I don't care for sports games, driving games, first person shooters with a gamepad, or pimping my virtual ride for achievement points. But I do get into games like Kameo, Earth Defense Force, Burnout (for the crashing mostly 🙂 ), Rachet and Clank, and all the survival horror titles I missed when they were released originally on the PS2 and XBox 1. I'm a PC gamer at heart, and that's where I spend a good 70% of my gaming time, which isn't much to begin with, but I do like being able to play a game on a console that interests me without having to worry if I have the right platform hardware for it or not. I'm sure this will probably be the only generation of consoles that I will have this option, seeing as it's the only generation where I've owned all the systems.
So yes, I have all 3, much to my wife's disgust. Between the PS3 and 360, I've bought maybe 5 games, there's not a lot that interests me in console gaming, I don't care for sports games, driving games, first person shooters with a gamepad, or pimping my virtual ride for achievement points. But I do get into games like Kameo, Earth Defense Force, Burnout (for the crashing mostly 🙂 ), Rachet and Clank, and all the survival horror titles I missed when they were released originally on the PS2 and XBox 1. I'm a PC gamer at heart, and that's where I spend a good 70% of my gaming time, which isn't much to begin with, but I do like being able to play a game on a console that interests me without having to worry if I have the right platform hardware for it or not. I'm sure this will probably be the only generation of consoles that I will have this option, seeing as it's the only generation where I've owned all the systems.
blurredvision
Lifer
No, she never played games as a kid, and haven't tried a DS. At this point, I've decided it's a lost cause. She played games on the Wii only when I was playing also, she would never pick it up on her own. The same goes with Guitar Hero right now, she'll only play when I'm playing.....but even then, she's only played GH3 once in the 2 1/2 weeks we've owned it.
She didn't put up too much of a fight at all when I suggested the idea of selling the Wii to buy a PS3.
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