Who here has yet to get a new generation system?
12-31-01, 01:19 PM
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Who here has yet to get a new generation system?
Anyone? The last new one I bought was a DC on 9.9.99. I plan on getting a Gamecube when they drop a little in price.
12-31-01, 02:01 PM
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I just got a DC for Christmas (I had ebayed my Playstation a while back)... I'll probably buy an X-Box when the next gen comes out and it's $50 ... I can't imagine spending $300 or even $200 on a console by itself, let alone $50 for each game.
12-31-01, 02:12 PM
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I don't have too much time to play games anymore - I have a Gameboy Advance if you count that as a next-gen system, but as for now I only have a Playstation and a Dreamcast (plus older systems back to the NES). I'd be more than happy without a next-gen system, but my Playstation is just about dead - it has to be tilted on its side in order to boot, and then it skips all over the place, making Dance Dance Revolution only playable about 10% of the time. I've adjusted the laser power potentiometer, and it can't be turned any further or else the system won't boot at all. (Edit: Sentence fragment edited out of this last sentence 
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So I'm considering buying a Playstation 2, but only once they hit a reasonable price. Our NES was something like $120, my SNES was $100, my Gameboy was $45, my Gameboy Advance was $75, my Playstation was $100 and my Dreamcast was $60. I won't throw $300 to buy a system, or pay another $100 for a PSOne that I effectively already own. If and when the PS2s drop in price, I'll probably buy one. I've got $300 "spare" money right now, but I won't put that much toward a game system.
Some of my friends have PS2s, XBoxes, and Gamecubes, but I honestly haven't seen anything that really makes me want to blow $400 on new game equipment and games.
It's a far cry from Next-Gen, but someday I want to buy a Neo-Geo MVS motherboard for the 4 bargain carts I own.
)So I'm considering buying a Playstation 2, but only once they hit a reasonable price. Our NES was something like $120, my SNES was $100, my Gameboy was $45, my Gameboy Advance was $75, my Playstation was $100 and my Dreamcast was $60. I won't throw $300 to buy a system, or pay another $100 for a PSOne that I effectively already own. If and when the PS2s drop in price, I'll probably buy one. I've got $300 "spare" money right now, but I won't put that much toward a game system.
Some of my friends have PS2s, XBoxes, and Gamecubes, but I honestly haven't seen anything that really makes me want to blow $400 on new game equipment and games.
It's a far cry from Next-Gen, but someday I want to buy a Neo-Geo MVS motherboard for the 4 bargain carts I own.
12-31-01, 03:05 PM
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My bro has had DC since it came out. We have a good library of games for it. I still love Shen-Mue, gotta pick up the 2nd from one of those overseas store. I had a PS2 when they first came out but i got rid of it since for some reason i was never into Playstation games. I even had the first PS for a while but traded it for a N64. Guess im a nintendo person. Took the money from selling my PS2 stuff to pick up gameboy advances for my bro and I and a few games. Today my gamecube arrived with SW and Smash Brothers. I picked up Monkey ball and G3 Extreme Racing this past weekend to play as well.
X-box has never really appealed to me. Im sure Halo is a excellent game but im not buying x-box for a extra $100 to like 1 game. But with gamecube I know there are games i will like this coming year with a new mario, zelda,metroid,new wwf and a bunch of other games which will only be on gamecube only with the exception of wwf which one will be on x-box also.
Everyone liked Playstation 1, but i was content with my N64 playing golden eye, perfect dark, wwf no mercy, world is not enough and all star baseball 2000 :-)
X-box has never really appealed to me. Im sure Halo is a excellent game but im not buying x-box for a extra $100 to like 1 game. But with gamecube I know there are games i will like this coming year with a new mario, zelda,metroid,new wwf and a bunch of other games which will only be on gamecube only with the exception of wwf which one will be on x-box also.
Everyone liked Playstation 1, but i was content with my N64 playing golden eye, perfect dark, wwf no mercy, world is not enough and all star baseball 2000 :-)
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Here's the consoles I own:
Atari 2600->NES->Genesis->N64->Dreamcast
I just got the DC for Christmas. I don't plan on getting another console at this point. But if there's a pattern, I guess I'll get the next Nintendo console next, followed by the Sega console after ne... never mind. I think I'm done buying consoles unless something really wows me and is cheap.
Atari 2600->NES->Genesis->N64->Dreamcast
I just got the DC for Christmas. I don't plan on getting another console at this point. But if there's a pattern, I guess I'll get the next Nintendo console next, followed by the Sega console after ne... never mind. I think I'm done buying consoles unless something really wows me and is cheap.
01-02-02, 11:25 AM
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I'll eventually buy a PS2, I suppose. But only when the price drops by at least $100.
I was perusing the games at a Toys R Us and I just cannot fathom paying $50+ for any of these next generation console games. I'll stick to the $20 used PS1 discs - thank you very much.
Just call me the frugal gamer.
I was perusing the games at a Toys R Us and I just cannot fathom paying $50+ for any of these next generation console games. I'll stick to the $20 used PS1 discs - thank you very much.
Just call me the frugal gamer.
