The below thought experiment is an extreme alternate reality from ours, however I find it is the extremes that bring out people's true colors.

It is the year 2142 and law has been made that the average citizen shall only be allotted one gaming console for their lifespan. If this law is not satisfied once a year an annual purge will occur to exterminate violators.

If this were the case would you feel strongly enough to rebel and own more than one system? Or would you appease the Capitol by only owning one, and which one would it be?

Have you ever performed experiments within a gaming environment to learn basic truths of the universe? For instance in Halo 3 Forge I created a zoo for grunts and let them roam under various circumstances to learn the path finding features of the AI engine Bungie used. This allowed me to hunt grunts better in the campaign.

Halo 3 because in high school my friends would play it without me, so I was able to live vicariously through their experience with the game by playing it alone in my room, imagining that I would fit in with them. This has resulted in me forcing myself to love these games despite my free will to do so and have night to night trauma up to 10 years after the fact, due to the fact I can no longer justify the expense of an Xbox One and the MCC to satisfy my nostalgic remorse.
:(

It has occurred to me that the console wars do no exist because of fanboyism but its rather the by-product of the immense cost and financial strain required to game in 2015. I've been told gaming is a relatively inexpensive hobby however upon a quick number crunch it can be one of life's great stresses!

Down payment: PS4 ($400), Xbox One ($350), Wii U ($300) Modest Gaming Rig $750.00 = $1850 + ~$250 tax = $1950.00
Annual gaming fees: 5 console exclusive games ($60 each) per system a year = $1200 + ~$200 tax = $1700.00
Memberships: PS Plus + Xbox Live = $110 + ~$15 tax = $125.00
Total annual cost to game in 2015 = $3775.00 ~taxes in.
~may vary by region

This means that hypothetically to get the full 'Best-Gaming-Experience-of-2015-Experience' it will set an individual back approximately $4k, let alone including the cost of a 4k TV ;)

Thoughts?