Which console do you *regret* buying?

[quote name='adrianchan56']Exactly the same here! I have a Gameboy Color and I only have 5 games (zelda ages, super mario dx, game&watch, and other junk). I remember how the gameboy color got replaced by GBA which really ticked me off! I thought GBC would be staying for at least 4 yrs. Though I haven't gotten my xbox yet... Still waiting for it everyday like a wife waiting for her hubby to come home :D.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I thought the GBC on day 1 and played my old GB games on it for a while before buying Game & Watch Gallery 3 which actually occupied me for a long time. After that I never touched the thing again. Then they killed it off... I was thinking the system would last at least as long as it's predecessor did (the GB/GB Pocket). I only recently purchased Oracle of Seasons/Ages, Mario Tennis, and Metal Gear Solid.
 
I'd say the DS but then again Nintendogs, Castlevania, Mario Kart, and Animal Crossing alone will make it worth the price of admission.
 
I'd LOVE to say the Nintendo 64. But I can't in the long-run of things. At the prime of the system, it really was cool in what it was capable of compared to the PS1.

It's just one of those systems that doesn't age well, IMO.

Otherwise? There was that stint in 1996 where I bought a PS1... tried crappy game after crappy game without checking reviews, and finally returned the system... only to buy one up again nine months later when Final Fantasy VII was released. I'd been playing Final Fantasy since the first game dammit, I HAD to own a PS1 for it! =)
 
N64, I guess. Since I only bought it for one game. But, it was only like $20 then, so whatever.

PS2 was also a disappointment since it died for me in 7 months, thus maybe wasn't worth it.
 
GBC and GBA. i spent way too much money on both systems and didnt really have many games for them. I also used to have the regular game boy but i dont regret buying that at all considering i had mario world on it : ).
 
[quote name='kittie']N64, I guess. Since I only bought it for one game. But, it was only like $20 then, so whatever.

PS2 was also a disappointment since it died for me in 7 months, thus maybe wasn't worth it.[/QUOTE]


What died, the system itself or your enjoyment of it?
 
[quote name='mmercer13']PS2 and PSP. Sony makes too many promises and never delivers.[/QUOTE]

What kind of stuff did they promise you and didn't deliver with?
 
Well, I don't regret buying the PSP, but I regret trading my DS to get it. I really love my PSP, but I loved my DS as well. I'm waiting for it to get cheaper before I buy one again, so I don't end up losing even more money from my trade in.
 
[quote name='electrictroy']I think the point MadFlava is trying to make, is that he should have done, what I did:

- Wait 1 year for the PS2 & its backwards-compatibility.
- Save $130.

I never played a PS1 game until 2001 (when I got the PS2). And you know what? They're old, but they're still fun. And I've got an extra $130 in my pocket.

I think that was MadFlava's point.

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You're missing the point. Unless his PS1 was going unused for all that time before the PS2 launch, he was getting value for his money. It would be one thing if his interest in PS1 games was minor but since it was the dominant platform of that time that seems unlikely. Consider: If he had wanted access to those games while they were at the height of their popularity but didn't want to buy the console, his only alternative would be to rent it. The cost of that would likely have added up to far more than the purchase price if he was playing PS1 games at least every other weekend per month.

Doing without PS1 library access may have been acceptable if there were other satisfactory choices at hand. If you're just getting started in consoles you can always go cheap by collecting the remanants of an obsolete generation but that assumes it wasn't the newest machine's offerings that brought you into console gaming. 3D, especially as mainstreamed on the PS1, brought a lot of adults back to console gaming who'd been away for a long time. For them there wasn't anything from the 16-bit generation they found attractive enough to buy, so for them it was PS1 games or nothing. Waiting around for yet another still unannounced generation would only be denying themselves the enjoyment immediately available for a decent price.

Consider also that since he didn't see fit to buy the PS1 at launch price, how likely was he to do so with the PS2? If he gave the PS2 a couple years to decline in price his cost for both would add up to the launch price of just one. By that point there would be plenty of PS2 games for deeply discounted prices. Surely he would have gotten the full value from the Ps1 by then regardless of the PS2's compatibility.
 
I don't really regret buying any system, but if I had to choose one I would have to say GCN. Although when I bought it at launch I loved it and played it for a good amount of time for about a year, it then collected dust. And more dust. I eventually sold it.
 
I wasted $399.99 on a Sega Saturn.

I traded in my Sega Saturn for $30 a year or so later along with all the games to SWAPUSA. Those bastards give me $0 for christmas nights and $10 for Guardian Heroes etc.

I was a dumbass gamer back then.
 
Hmm...I bought a Sega Saturn about 3 months ago, but it came with 7 games, I also found Nights and the 3d controller, total for everything about $34. Cheap but I've used it for about 3 hours total, and haven't even touched Nights yet!
 
GBA non-SP - I later Ebayed it, I could never see the damn screen anyway. My wife bought an SP, better, the DS is even better with the backlit LCD.

Xbox - I seriously have 6 games for it.
Panzer Dragoon Orta - played some, fun
Street Fighter Anniversary - online is fun but I'm better at Tekken
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - made my wife throw up in < 5min, she gets nausea sometimes from 3D games but WOW that was a record..
Halo 2 - overrated, I don't get it...FPS on analog sticks is OK...
KOTOR - not played yet, too many RPGs to play
Fable - bought for my wife, she's only played a little

I bought it mainly for Street Fighter online cause my friend who played fighting games moved across the country. But I have played it very little, and I have so few games. And I thought Halo 2 would be so great from all the talk...but it's not really so great...
 
[quote name='crazytalkx']Hmm...I bought a Sega Saturn about 3 months ago, but it came with 7 games, I also found Nights and the 3d controller, total for everything about $34. Cheap but I've used it for about 3 hours total, and haven't even touched Nights yet![/QUOTE]

...which is why you've only played it for 3 hours. Go play nights, get over the fact that the games is almost 10 years old and have fun.
 
PS1 and PS2- not because they are bad systems (my favs in fact)- but because i bought them both near launch and both have ended up with disc read errors
 
PS2. I bought it for $330 with Gran Turismo 3 a year after launch. I can't play about five games I own, and I could've owned it for about $150 less if I'd waited for a few months.
 
I guess the system that I had the least reason to own was the GB Pocket, I bought it, Pokemon, and Castlevania Legends, and was given Tetris. In comparison, it was the least amount of games I've owned for any system, and I really didn't play any of them much once I beat Pokemon.
 
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