How Many Games do you buy for a Console?

There are alot of manti-cores these days and alot of fanboys.

How many games you usually buy for a console or handheld for that matter?

Shrug.  How can I tell how many I will buy until I buy them?

I've bought like 6 for the DS and Wii or something?  But I haven't even bought the PS3 or 360 yet...

This question needs to be asked in 4 years.  Unless you mean for last gen?  Doesn't it depend on games and all sorts of factors?

Highly variable.

I had about 6 for SNES. 10 for PS. 20 for PS2. Estimating about 8-12 that I will be getting for the Wii over the next year. And just for the sake of mentioning it... I have about 80 for PC (not that it counts or anything). As for DS I have 3 ATM and will be going and getting 2 oe 3 GBA games and another 2 or 3 DS games within the next couple weeks.

I am not one of those rich gamers. Up until recently I have played the hell out of every game that I owned.foxhound_fox

Oh I know EXACTLY what you mean, lol.

Current library-

GC-22

Wii-14

PSone-18

PS2-59

PS3-13

Xbox-31

Xbox 360-40

PSP-16

DS-17

I pretty much buy anything that is relevant to my interests, which is pretty much everything except sports games. Depending on release schedules i usualy average between 2-5 game purchases a month.

Shrug. How can I tell how many I will buy until I buy them?

I've bought like 6 for the DS and Wii or something? But I haven't even bought the PS3 or 360 yet...

This question needs to be asked in 4 years. Unless you mean for last gen? Doesn't it depend on games and all sorts of factors?

Jandurin

any gen really

I bought 137 games altogether maybe more but I can't remember there names I was really young then. Going from most games to least games I have is

1. NES -18 games
2. GCN - 17 games
3. SNES - 15 games
4. N64 - 15 games
5. PC - 15 games
6. PS2 - 11 games
7. Genesis - 9 games
8. Dreamcast - 7 games
9. 360 - 7 games
10. Wii - 6 games
11. PS1 - 5 games
12. GBC - 4 games
13. GBA - 3 games
14. GB - 2 games
15. 2600 - 2 games
16. Xbox - 1 game

any gen really Majatt

Probably around 6-10 on average.  I have probably purchased almost as many computer games a generation as for consoles.

And, I was too busy with college almost all of last gen. to buy many games.

Now that I have a full time job, I seem to be buying MANY more games.

Edit:  That's per console, not per generation.

Current library-

GC-22

Wii-14

PSone-18

PS2-59

PS3-13

Xbox-31

Xbox 360-40

PSP-16

DS-17

 

I pretty much buy anything that is relevant to my interests, which is pretty much everything except sports games. Depending on release schedules i usualy average between 2-5 game purchases a month.

jigglebilly1983

Wow! You just redeifined excessive for me. I'm not sure if its excessive free time or excessive disposable income...but jeez.

Last gen I have 30+ games on PS2 and about 30 games for Dreamcast.

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Current library-

GC-22

Wii-14

PSone-18

PS2-59

PS3-13

Xbox-31

Xbox 360-40

PSP-16

DS-17

 

I pretty much buy anything that is relevant to my interests, which is pretty much everything except sports games. Depending on release schedules i usualy average between 2-5 game purchases a month.

gromit007

Wow! You just redeifined excessive for me. I'm not sure if its excessive free time or excessive disposable income...but jeez.

Mostly Disposable income. ive only beat maybe 1/3 of all thsoe. but i just buy them so that when i do have time in the fututre, they will be there and i wont have to pay an arm and a leg for them on ebay or somewhere.

Depends on the quality of the library I guess...I started buying my own games with the PSX when I "got to that age"

DC- 18

DS - 31

GB - 9

GBA - 45

GBC - 4

GCN - 28

N64 - 10

PC -  36

PSX -  41

PS2 - 68

Saturn -4

SNES - 16

Wii - 14

XBox - 14

XBox360 - 16

I very rarely buy games. Unless it's something that a really really like.

I rent them via Gamefly. 

8 games for the Nintendo DS

12 games for the Nintendo Gamecube

?? games for the PS2 (I traded in games so I don't know anymore)



The most interesting system is the Xbox 360 - I don't own one yet, but I'm stock piling games that I get good deals on for when I do - I already have GeoW, GRAW, and PGR3.

The best two systems for building a library on right now are the PS2 and the Xbox 360. On both systems there are a ton of awesome games that can be had for $20 brand new off Amazon or Ebay. There's so much game pressure on both systems that all the games drop down to around $20 after six to eight months.

I'll probably be picking up Phantasy Star Universe for the 360 pretty soon, making it my fourth game for a system I don't own.

Here's my contribution:

Megadrive-9

PS1-11

GBC-3

PS2-21

PSP-5(and counting)

Xbox 360-5(and counting)

PS3-3(and counting)

GBA - 9

DS - 23

Gamecube - 60

XBox 360 - 3

Most of them I didn't buy until the $20 bin clearance at Wal-Mart.

8 games for the Nintendo DS

12 games for the Nintendo Gamecube

?? games for the PS2 (I traded in games so I don't know anymore)



The most interesting system is the Xbox 360 - I don't own one yet, but I'm stock piling games that I get good deals on for when I do - I already have GeoW, GRAW, and PGR3.

 

The best two systems for building a library on right now are the PS2 and the Xbox 360. On both systems there are a ton of awesome games that can be had for $20 brand new off Amazon or Ebay. There's so much game pressure on both systems that all the games drop down to around $20 after six to eight months.

I'll probably be picking up Phantasy Star Universe for the 360 pretty soon, making it my fourth game for a system I don't own.

subrosian

EB has a pretty good used game catalog but s/h to where I live is like shoving pine cones up your *cough*. 

I work so I get to buy games. 21+

GC:18

DS:9

XBOX/360: 30  (just traded alot of those in though) I'm down to like 15 now.

I've got around 40 PS1 games and 40 PS2 games.  So far I've got 8 games for my 360 and I've had it for 8 months and I've got 8 PC games, most of which I can't really play at the moment (I need a new Graphics card). 

snes 65

genesis 31

n64 40

ps2 34

gamecube 20 

xbox 219

x360 26

pc 15

gameboy + gba 50 ish 

xbox-15ish*

PS2  -9ish*

GC    -8ish*

PC    -9

360   -9

any thing with a * i had more but sold a bunch off

Many. I own around 30 games for my GameCube, PS2, and Xbox, around 25 for my DS, and 7 for my Wii.

Thing is, I very rarely buy at full price. At least half of all of those games I picked up for under $10, and others I got as a gift.

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8 games for the Nintendo DS

12 games for the Nintendo Gamecube

?? games for the PS2 (I traded in games so I don't know anymore)



The most interesting system is the Xbox 360 - I don't own one yet, but I'm stock piling games that I get good deals on for when I do - I already have GeoW, GRAW, and PGR3.

 

The best two systems for building a library on right now are the PS2 and the Xbox 360. On both systems there are a ton of awesome games that can be had for $20 brand new off Amazon or Ebay. There's so much game pressure on both systems that all the games drop down to around $20 after six to eight months.

I'll probably be picking up Phantasy Star Universe for the 360 pretty soon, making it my fourth game for a system I don't own.

Majatt

EB has a pretty good used game catalog but s/h to where I live is like shoving pine cones up your *cough*.

Any pre-GCN/PS2 numbers are too low since I couldn't remember them all when I registered on GS.

GB - 3 

GBC - 9

GBA - 20

DS - 11

N64 - 27

GC - 40

Wii - 6

PC - 18

PS - 12

PS2 - 30

PS3 - 5

Xbox - 3 (I don't own the original Xbox)

Xbox 360 - 16

I can honestly say I don't buy as many games now as I did when I was younger (and single). I can't post exact numbers but when things were better financialy I was able to buy an average of 4-5 per month. That was during the genesis and snes days. The newer consoles came out and it began to slow to about 2-3 a month (PS, Sat, N64). Now that I am married and have kids I can barely scrape enough free $$ to get 1 a month.

The average amount of total games per console I own is around 30. A small amount when you consider I have almost all the consoles but I did say average. If I tried to break it down by system I have more genesis games than I do snes but my minimum amount of games per console is 20. I know there are SO many more that I WANT but funds get tight as the kids get older and eat more.