I'm going to get one but I'm not sure when. Waiting for E3 to see if they announce a price drop. If not I may just wait for Black Friday. Enjoying my XBone and ps4 but I also enjoy first party Nintendo games. Just need a price that makes me jump.
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It's been so long that I have no clue what my first game was. I'm about to hit 40 and remember my Atari and Commodore 64 in my room. So I'm probably like TC and my first game was the one that came with Atari. Man, how far games have come....
@ShoTTyMcNaDeS: as long as digital downloads cost the same as physical copies, I'll still prefer the physical copies. at least I can sell or trade them. They need to make digital cheaper.
Let me start by saying I am a proud owner of both the PS4 and Xbox One. I typically try to get all systems because they each have exclusives that I enjoy to play. I think both systems will continue to improve once the games start coming and both get some patches to tighten things up. I don't get worked up about who has the best launch lineup because games will come for both systems.
I don't use TV integration on my Xbox because I don't want my system on all the time I'm watching TV. I'm just strange that way and like to believe my system will last longer if I don't run it that much. And I can only imagine my parents or my in-laws trying to control the TV through Xbox when they come over to baby sit. My Harmony remote is easy enough for them. Hit one button and they are good to go.
But I've hooked up two Xbox One systems for friends and have run their cable boxes through it. I went to a Saints party recently at one of their houses and a majority of the people there do not game or care about gaming. But they all had young children that like to game. It was pretty unanimous among the non-gamers, that the TV integration (voice control) aspect of the Xbox was "cool". A lot of the wives were also talking about the Xbox Fitness aspect of the machine.
I don't know if any of this will turn into actual console purchases, but I'm pretty sure if they were to get their children a new console, it would be the Xbox because the TV integration and Fitness aspects appeared to have value to them as non-gamers.
I'm not trying to make this into the Xbox One is a casual console and the PS4 is the gaming machine of the two. I like both of them and have no regrets with either. I would just like some more games and patches to hit each. But I did see the Xbox appealing to people that could care a less about the games for other features that they felt were cool. So if they decide to buy consoles for their kids, that could be enough to get them on the Xbox train.
I don't see the Xbox exploding like the Wii did due to the casual crowd, but could the "non-gaming" aspects of the Xbox be enough to give it the edge this gen?
I don't think it's dead, but a price cut wouldn't hurt. In the past month, I've added Ps4, Xbone, 3DS XL and Vita to my collection. I snagged the handhelds because I've never had any and found some decent deals on them.
I'll eventually get the Wii U once it hits a price I'm comfortable with for the system. I like to have them all because they all have some exclusives to enjoy but it's not worth 299 for me. The best I saw was a 249 Pimkin bundle.
Once it hits 150 for the system or a decent 199 bundle, I'll consider adding it to my collection. Sooner or later it's bound to happen and I have more than enough to keep my occupied until it does.
I pretty much get them all. I currently have Wii, Ps2, Ps3, Ps4, 360 and Xbone hooked up in my entertainment center. I'll get a WiiU in the next year or so when the price drops to $150-199 range. I was never a handheld person but found some deals this black Friday on Vita and 3DS XL so grabbed those. I also built a gaming pc earlier this year but there's not a lot I play on it. I'm getting older and have always been a console guy going back to Atari.
My thing is that I rarely pay full retail for games unless it's really something I want bad. I stumbled on to cheapassgamer several years ago and that has made my library explode because I typically wait for games to hit $25 or less. So I just play out of my huge backlog until newer games drop in price.
It's definitely an expensive hobby to have but it's my thing. And I get all the consoles because they pretty much all have some exclusives that I would like to play.
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