Okay, if we can pretty agree that ALL consoles have good releases, I wanna know why some of you freaks are buying second and third consoles. Seriously, why?!

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Okay, if we can pretty agree that ALL consoles have good releases, I wanna know why some of you freaks are buying second and third consoles. Seriously, why?!</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I've had the PS2 for almost a year now, but I bought the Cube a few months ago so I would be able to play games like Metroid, Zelda, and the RE series, to name a few.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>While its easy to keep yourself busy with ANY console, some people are devoted fans of certain titles. What to do if you like zelda and FF, buy both of course.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Do you really not understand this concept? I want to play game A and game B. Games A and B are on different consoles. The only way to play both is to buy both consoles.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Let's see, I bought a PSX2 at the height of it's poplarity with FFX, MGS2, etc a year ago, this year Mario, Resident Evil, Metriod have the GC's number, next year the X-Box may have something.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Not to mention Xbox already has Halo (though the name sounds like something I'd call a Photoshop clone)</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm sure it sold a couple systems.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I bought a PS2 for FFX and GTA3. A year later, I bought my GC for the many cool games that are out. I like games on both, therefore I buy both. Very simple.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Then understand this: this month's rent is more important than spending $500 on two consoles. Are you guys just filthy rich or something? Consoles are more expensive nowadays, yet more people buy more than one console.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Oh, your post was REAL original. :P</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Well as you get older there are more bills to pay, but consoles aren't that much cheaper, I mean SNES started at $150 or $200 upon it's release, the PSX started at $350, in comparision I got my GC for $150. I own every console from Atari to GC, just need a X-Box, and yes, I am filthy rich.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Consoles are the same price they have always been. They start high, come down low.

Seriously, not being able to afford a new system is very different from not seeing why someone would buy another one.

On the other hand, a GC plus Metroid is about four PS2 games. Will you buy four PS2 games in, say, the next six months? I never would - I don't have the time. But I do have the time for one game (spread out over a semester or so.) So you (maybe) buy the four PS2 games, and I buy a GC and Metroid.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>You can buy plenty of games for that money. I have a PC, a Dreamcast, and a PS2, and that's all I'm going to buy. Because the DC is more or less dead, I'm not even going to consider that a current console, so I only have one console system. Back in the day, I had a PSX and that's IT. Most of my friends when I was a kid either had a SNES or a Genesis, a NES or a Sega Master System (actually, nobody really bought the SMS).

Now, everybody's talking about owning all three systems, like we suddenly got rich or something. When you're planning on buying a system, you already have a good idea on what kind of games it's going to have. There are some surprises, but it's more or less what you want. After you buy your console, get some games for it. If you played those games, go get some more games for it.

Why are you people so swayed by everybody else here talking about the latest game? "Kingdom Hearts is here...everybody is playing it! Oooooh, I got to have it, even if I don't have a PS2." "Metroid Prime is here...everybody is playing it! Oooooh, I got to have it, even if I don't have a GC." Shut up! Quit getting envious! Have some goddamn self-control, and quit acting like a goddamn five-year-old! "Mommy, mommy! I got to have that game!! Can you spend $250 on it?!" A good game will come along on your system, and you can brag all you want then. Hell, I've even surprised on the good shit coming out for the XBox. If you're thinking of switching systems, you're not looking hard enough.

I don't even have enough time to play the shit that I DO have. This is not including the fact that I'm playing E&B all the damn time. I haven't finished FFX, even though I'm near the end. I just completed MGS2, though I'm in the middle of a second game. Unlocked all of the characters in Tekken Tag, but I still have some movies to unlock. THPS3 only has two levels unlocked. Still haven't touched Suikoden 2, and with 3 out, I need to play it. Vandal Hearts 2 is barely into the story. Haven't gotten past the first level on Parappa 2. My replay of FF7 is only past the first city. My replay of FFT isn't even that far.

And then there's my DC, with my 100 or so burned games, including Soul Reaver 2 and RE:Code Veronica, which I've barely touched on either. Even if I get bored with all of the Capcom titles and other miscellanous gems, I still have a DC SNES emulator, a DC NES emulator, and a DC Genesis emulator. (And yes, I had a lot of fun playing Actraiser on the SNES emulator. I was hooked on that one until I finished it.) On my PC, besides E&B, I'd still like to try out a bunch of the new FPSs out, like UT2003 and Alien vs Predator 2. Warcraft 3 is sitting as a burned CD, but I haven't even touched that.

Good games are fucking EVERYWHERE! The market is oversaturated. Quit focusing on the games you want, and play the games you have! Quit focusing on the systems you want, and play on the systems you have!</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Ummm, no, I want to play games I want. Otherwise that defeats the whole purpose. :) This is just opinion vs. opinion.</div>

[Tortolia]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>No shit if you have 100 burned CDs of games for a console you'll be able to find some good games to play. So what if you don't pirate? You go with big-name games that are good, because there's less effort involved and less time put into it.

It's not about being a spoiled brat, it's about finding a title that piques your interest and obtaining it.

It's goddamn sad that the crux of your argument is based off of having zillions of games because of piracy. Kind of blows it away when you don't have that kind of pirated stash, no?</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I'm a five year old because I want to play Metroid Prime. Right. Moving along...</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Too many good games on each. I don't want to miss out on anything. Besides, I have to complete my collection, too</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I have the PS2 and DC as well, my brother and I share the GC. I have WAY to many great games that I haven't touched or finished that I can go nuts over GTA:VC or Mechassault or Metroid Prime. I'll get them in their own time when they're greatest hits. Btw, Vandal Hearts 2 is proving to be a good time.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Why? If I want to play a game, I'm going to buy it, if I don't have the system it's on, then I'm going to buy it, simple as that. I don't have time to waste on games that aren't the ones that I want to play.</div>

[Lee S.]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Sine, if you had the money and time, you'd probably buy them all too. I have neither of these resources to invest, so I'm in the same boat you are. But if you CAN buy all the consoles and WANT to buy all the consoles, more power to you.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Kupek, you're one to talk. You don't have the time, and probably not the money, to go out and play MP. You have college, studies, homework, and you read more books in a month than I read in a year.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Since when did you become such an anti-pirate? Besides, it's not like the developers are going to make any money out of it from a dead system, and I've bought plenty of DC games, too.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Quiet you! It's all true!</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Winter break, my friend, winter break. Too short to work. I have grad school applicaitons to do, but other than that, I'll probably have a good amount of free time.</div>

[Tortolia]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm not pro or anti piracy, but the point is that your argument is seriously flawed due to the assumption that everyone is going to have an abundance of free games due to piracy.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>The DC games are mere extras. I have plenty of unfinished games on my PS2.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Take four of those "plenty" and you have a GameCube and Metroid. I have two games for PS2. I don't buy many games.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>To me, that simply lacks the basics of economics. That's $150 per game for the PS2, and $200 for MP.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I bought the PS2 when it dropped to $200. I bought the games I wanted to play, and that I had the time to play. What, I should justify spending my money by spending more on games I don't want to play?</div>

[Andrew, Killer Bee]

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>I own a Dreamcast, a PS2 and a Gamecube. I'm not filthy rich. I'm pretty goddamned broke, actually. It's just that I don't spend much of my money on stuff others do. Most of my friends could afford every system and comprehensive frickin' game libraries for each one if they didn't sink so much of their dough into booze :).

I spend a large chunk of my leisure time gaming, so that's where my money goes.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It's basically extra money people have after paying things like rent, or food, or other such things that need to be paid.

Now, many might spend this money on movies, or perhaps a nice meal, or booze, or maybe a bag of reefer. Now, what I think these people are doing, is instead of buying drugs with this money, they prefer to save up this here "discretionary money" so that they can buy a new game system along with some games that they may want.

Now stop making stupid statements about the rent, of course nobody is skiping the rent for a fucking game. People manage to buy plenty of booze without skiping the rent too you know, did you manage to figure out how that works genius? It's the same concept, just minus booze and plus video games.</div>

[EsquE]

<div style='font: 14pt Calligrapher; text-align: left; '>I have the time, I have the need, I have the money...next question?</div>

[EsquE]

<div style='font: 14pt Calligrapher; text-align: left; '>If you're buying a console with your rent money, you're an idiot....not everyone here is in your situation financially...</div>

[Crono]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>....how much they squander on food, clothes, travel, etc... (even those on a budget). This is not to say that you shouldn't buy food, or clothes, etc. It just means that people need to learn how to eat cheap (but well) and to only buy enough clothes to get by (and not to waste it on too much of any one thing). And yes, I've had a lack of money for buying games lately. But the main reason is cause i've spent hundreds of dollars from each of my recent paychecks on music. Again, it's the prioritizing. ^_^</div>