Were friends a factor in buying the console you purchased?

Were they? Me I have a PS3 and love it.and it has better exclusives (IMO). But I like Xbox Live better than PS3 and dont mind paying. So were friends a factor in purchasing the console you bought. That is like the last factor in choosing whether to keep my PS3 and play the better exclusives and play withcool people i met online(IMO), or to switch to Xbox 360 and enjoy the good exclusives they have but play with the bettter online experience(once again IMO.i just dont want to get flamed and crap) and play with ALOT of my friends from school(some of them are my best friends). I could just buy an Xbox 360, but in my eyes, they are kinda similiar. So were friends a factor in choosing the console you chose? This is mainly for Single console owners(they're barely are some) but I guess Multiplatform owners could answer also.

Thank in advance

if i had rich friends who could afford a next gen console and games it probably would

but since i like games where anyone can just play it and not get cheesed by the pro who owns the game, i'm happy with my wii

the 360 purchase was more like.. making up for my video card dying.. multiplayer gaming was not really a factor except for when it comes down to which platform has more co op games.. so in that aspect yes technically i purchased a 360 over a ps3 because of multiplayer, but not so much friends who owned a system and begged me to get the same as them

Nope, got them at alunch.

Though I generally buy multiplats and online game son the ps3 since my friends have ps3's, so it makes sense to get games to play with them.

Not really. I've always gotten all off the consoles of a given generation since the Colecovision days. But what my friends do influence, especially this gen with online is how much I will game on a particular platform. I've spent a lot of time playing the 360 because it has the largest active friends list. But I still use my other platforms quite a bit.

Maybe A little.

I want a 360 right now, and a lot of my friends have XBL.