Who owns consoles, even though they have a PC?

Every once in a while I try to understand the reasoning behind some one needing to own more then one platform for gaming purposes....other then the fact that there are many games (good games, as some would say) out there for each console and some people like to dabble in them all.

In all honesty, who has time to play through massive amounts of games for PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii? Hell, I hardly have time to play through my PC games. I even went through my list of games and found all the ones that I haven't beat and made a list (you can see it on my blogs). I have to devote time to these games I haven't beat so I wouldn't have time for a console (not that I want one).

So, I was wondering who out there owns a PC for gaming plus other consoles? Also, why?

Me, I'm strictly a PC gamer (I own a PS2, but I haven't purchased a game for it for over 2 years).

Wouldn't say I'm a strict PC gamer; I find myself playing PC games more often than anything else lately; although there are a bunch of titles coming out for the 360 towards the end of the year that may balance things out.

Originally I was more of a console junkie; played the Xbox and the Playstation quite heavily. Then I made the decision to stick with one platform only, and so chose the Xbox, then subsequently the 360. Was a heavy console gamer until a few years back, when World of Warcraft was released and led to the resurgence of PC gaming.

Along with WoW I got a bunch of other games, started playing a few oldies like WC3, Age of Mythology, started getting more PC games, Doom, etc. etc. etc. After I quit WoW I sorta just kept playing PC games, there was about a 4 month period where no 360 games interested me at all and so I just stuck with some solid PC games. Now it's probably a 70%/30% ratio between PC games and Xbox 360 games during an average week.

PC is my main gaming platform, but I've got a DS- That I got for free, so I barely use it- and I'm on the fence deciding whether or not to grab an Xbox 360 by the end of the year for Mass Effect.

PC: RTS/MMO/FPS

XBox 360: XBox exclusives, sports games, driving games

Wii: party games / split screen w/ spouse

Nintendo DS: just because

I got a PSP, desktop (primary) and laptop for gaming.The_PC_Gamer

Same here. I got a PSP, desktop for (primary and gaming) laptop for portability.

I'm pretty much a pc gamer, primarily because most of the games I like are on pc ( 117 of the 206 games in my collection are pc ).There is also the fact that I love FPS's, and can't stand using a controller to play them.

I'm not against consoles, I do own a Wii although its more for entertaining guests and something for my girlfriend and I to do on rainy days. I've got a ps2 as well, but I never used it all that much. I do find there are some games that are much more suited toplaying in the livingroom, like Tony Hawk and guitar hero.

I always come back to my PC though.

that are still working: a SNES, a gameboy (original!), a playstation, a playstation 2 and i'll be buying my pal's 360 when he gets himself one of these elite ones

i tend to buy consoles long after they've been released for cheap, and pick up the entire awesome games library for cheap, too

i mean, as great as the pc is - the playstation games library with stuff like castlevania: sotn, the oddworld games, street fighter alpha 3, wipeout 2097 (xl) and many more - the pc just can't put out titles like that

i think the well rounded, open-minded gamer needs consoles - just not necessarily at their release, at full price - because consoles, in my experience, tend to have relatively small libraries of awesome games, and their releases are few and far between

I own a 360, though I'm almost exclusively a PC gamer.

I downloaded/played the Skate demo yesterday..that was the first time I'd played my 360 in months (the last time was Gears of War co-op on Insane.) What I'm really anticipating is Mass Effect, and I'm probably gonna pick up Halo 3 soon.

PC is my main gaming platform, but I've got a DS- That I got for free, so I barely use it- and I'm on the fence deciding whether or not to grab an Xbox 360 by the end of the year for Mass Effect.

Shadow-Eagle

How did you get a DS for free? :o

I got my PC for my serious games and my Wii for the weird asian stuff lol.FlaminDeath

LOL

Just bought a 360 3 weeks ago.

Edit: mostly for Halo 3, Mass Effect, Star Wars: Force Unleashed, Soul Cal 4 and GTA IV. I'm sure there will be other must-have-games for me as well.

I use my pc for writing crap to people :D playing wow and flight sim but I use my 360 for fps's coz my pc has 1 gig of ram on vista :cry: and I use my 360 for racing games because racing games on pc are crap such as most wanted which was tested on a pc with 2 8800 ultras and 3gigs of ram on windows xp pro and still lagged I use my pc for stratagy games such as supreme commander and warcraft 3rts's on consoles are still to hard to play as fast as on pcjaflash

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Of the newer consoles I've got the Xbox 360, and I use my PC for games, though she's hardly the spring chicken she used to be (athlon 2400 & GeForce 6600 gtoc). I've also got the DS and a PSP. I could go into the other consoles I've got (even have a Virtual Boy), but the numbers are saddening proof I've got no life.Icehearted

Nothing wrong with owning a Virtual Boy, I've still got one that I pull out every once in a great while and sit at the table and play. I've only got two games left for it....I don't know what happened to the other two or three that my brothers and I used to own. I've just got pinball and the Mario Tennis game. I should look into picking up a few more games for it...

I still own a NES with a couple of games and she still works, but I haven't played it for nearly 4-5 years now. I used to own a slew of games and consoles with my older brother years ago: NES (had 3 back then), GameBoy (had 2), SNES (had 2), Turbo Grafix 16, Atari, Sega Genesis, Sega Genesis 32x....I forget what else, but therewere a couple more mixed in there.

I guess I just can't get myself into consoles anymore. I've tried playing games on them and they just can't do a thing for me. My PC is my gaming platform and I don't see that changing anytime in the near future.

I own all of the consoles and a high end pc. I don't understand why people are platform based. I play games for games. I own everything so that the games that come out on one system and not another that i want to play i can. Why limit it to one system that has only a small portion of the pool of games out there. You may say sure there are lots of great games on the pc, ps3, 360, wii, or whatever but when you put everything together you're still missing out on other great games.karmageddon2k4

because of money and time issues?

[QUOTE="karmageddon2k4"]I own all of the consoles and a high end pc. I don't understand why people are platform based. I play games for games. I own everything so that the games that come out on one system and not another that i want to play i can. Why limit it to one system that has only a small portion of the pool of games out there. You may say sure there are lots of great games on the pc, ps3, 360, wii, or whatever but when you put everything together you're still missing out on other great games.fireandcloud

because of money and time issues?

I was thinking the same thing...if you were to purchase a Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, you'd be dropping around $1,000.00 for those three consoles. I know for a fact that I cannot afford to spend that kind of cash on gaming materials.

I know my wife enjoys playing Wii, just because it's more interactive then other systems and she keeps telling me she's going to buy one for me for Christmas. I keep telling her, "If that's whatyou want to keep telling yourself, that you're buying me a Wii for Christmas."

I don't want a Wii, but if the wife did get one and she wanted me to play with her, I wouldn't tell her no. She's not a gamer and she gets irritated that I spend so much time playing games...maybe an hour or two a night, if I'm lucky, I play games. But I have gone weeks without playing before and as soon as I did play a game for a few hours, she was telling me I was spending too much time playing games again. I can't win!

i have a pretty good PC.. im gonna have wii.. i have nintendo DS..

had a gamecube.. (wii is technically one console, but to me it's 5 consoles ).

I have the Xbox 360, PS2, N64, and I had a PS1 and Xbox (sold them). I also had a few handhelds like Gameboy and Gameboy color (I think those were the only ones). These days I find that I have a helluva lot less time for games so I don't really play on my consoles that much. The Xbox 360 has a few exclusive games right now that I like. Halo 3 and Gears of War. I know Gears is coming to the PC and Halo 3 will probably come to the PC sometime later, but right now I am enjoying them on my 360. Later on this year and early next year there are a few more games coming out such as Mass Effect that I want to play.

The more I think about it, the closer I come to the conclusion that I should not have spent $400 on the Xbox 360 all the way back at launch, but as more higher quality titles such as Halo 3 and Gears come to the Xbox 360 the more justifiable the purchase becomes. However at the same time these "exclusives" are coming to the PC fairly quickly now so in the end it may not have been worth it.

Is the Xbox 360 necessary to fulfil my gaming needs? No the PC is sufficient enough, but I bought it... so I mind as well use it.

i gotta say, if consoles would just offer a keyboard and mouse, i'd probably give up PC gaming. you have to have a mouse for RTS's and a keyboard and mouse is so much better for FPS's- especially if you're left-handed. if they would make a controller with the ABXY buttons on the left and the joysticks flipped then it would be a little easier, but that doesn't solve the accuracy issues. and for all the people that say, "I have no problem with accuracy. You must suck", quit being ignorant and realize that some people like different controls. another complaint i've heard is that it would be an unfair advantage for the KB + M players. well then make different servers for each type of player. if you don't like that idea i'm pretty sure that shadowrun proved that a KB + M doesn't give that much of an advantage- if any at all.

all i'm saying is that i wish the console makers would at least give people the option and quit being so narrow minded. consoles are so much more cost efficient than pc's but until they offer better controls for ALL game types it'll be PC all the way for me.