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Angie4b1g

Angie4b1g

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Which one(s) do you have? Covet?

I swear between what I've bought and what my big kids have purchased, we have them all. My daughter has even asked for the old ones lately, so we have a Nintendo 64 and a Game Cube.

The Wii still gets the most action followed by PS3.
 
We always had Nintendo as a kid and I always wanted a Sega. In my pre-husband years I always had a playstation and wanted an xbox. And now, we don't have a console... but I REALLY want a Play Station 4 so I can play little big planet.
 
We have had a Wii for about a decade and this last Christmas got the boys an Xbox. They barely play with the Xbox, so that was a HUGE waste of money and then this summer our Wii died. I doubt we will replace it, but they have missed it some. Mostly they play on their computers and iPads these days anyway.
 
We have a PS2, PS3 and a PS4. My son bought the 3 & 4 with his own money and the 2 is 11 years old still going but is rarely played. I bought a Wii when they first came out and it was played with for maybe a few months (huge waste of money). My son took it to his dad's so they would have something to do in the evenings (no internet, cable or satellite) and it haven't seen it since (doesn't go there often....whole other story).
 
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our Wii died over a year ago. it was the only thing that shorted during a power outage. no one really misses it bc it wasn't used all that much. we have an old playstation and some other newer thing down in the finished basement (don't even remember what it is) but my son is all about the games on the computer while skyping his friends ... and my daughter plays her iPhone games.
 
We got a Wii when they first came out and then sold it a few years ago and switch to the Xbox. Other than my kids' DSi and 3DS, that's the only system we have. I like it that way... they're already really limited on the amount of time they get to play, and that'll be reduced again once school starts.
 
We only have a Wii, and quite honestly it doesn't get much use. With 3 girls, they just aren't much into gaming, unless it is on their ipods/ipad. I did just rent them a Wii game from Redbox yesterday because you could get a free game rental this week if you hold the game thru the redbox app. It was good to get them down there using it again, and they did enjoy it. I should probably look into getting some new games, but they are just to darn expensive usually.
 
We have a Wii and it gets the most use whenever a new Lego game comes out. We have them all. We also have a PS3 but it is kind of flaky, so we can't play Little Big Planet anymore (and dh has the Uncharted series so he can't play those either). We might need to get a PS4 but does anyone know if the PS3 games will play in a PS4?
 
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When my husband and I started dating, we were poor college students and decided to get a Super Nintendo to play together. I figured it would be cheaper than going to the movies every weekend and save us from the hours we would spend at the video store, trying to pick out a movie to watch. (I am not much of a movie watcher and generally he had already seen most of them, so we always had a hard time picking one out.)

These days, we have an old TV dedicated to all the old game consoles that we picked up over the years. I'm not sure which ones are currently hooked up to the TV, but off the top of my head, in addition to the Super Nintendo, we also had a Sega Genesis (with 32X attachment), a Sega CD, a Sega Dreamcast (one of my favorites), a 3DO, a Nintendo 64, an original Playstation, a Playstation One, a PS2 and an original XBOX.

The kids mostly play on either the XBOX 360 (with Kinect) or the Wii U. We also have the original Wii and two PS3s (they used to be one of the better BluRay players.) We never got a Game Cube, although we have a couple of games now because the Wii can play them.

We don't have any plans to buy any more consoles -- we aren't into playing online and that seems to be the direction the industry is moving. There never were a lot of the games that I like to play -- bright action/adventure/platform -- and there seem to be even fewer of that kind now.
 
I asked for a WiiU at Christmas. It's been great. I don't play it all that much unless one of the kids is around and wants to play. I really didn't want to become a gamer or anything...it was just a sneaky way for me to get something that I knew everyone would enjoy doing together. ;-)
 
We have had them all, except the xbox One. It's pathetic.

Since getting married, we have had...

Original Nintendo (just sold it)
Game Cube
Wii (two, actually, bc we wore the first one out. ha ha... we. i mean THEY.)
WiiU*
PlayStation
PlayStation2
PlayStation3*
PlayStation4*
xbox
xbox 360 (still have, but it's in a box in the basement)
Game Boy*
DS
DSiXL
3DS (just sold)
3DSXL (x2)*
PSP
PSVita (just sold)

The starred ones are the ones we currently have.

Soooo yeah. Like father like son? :) That said, they are usually on their iPads. We use the WiiU mostly between games and Netflix. Luke uses the PS3 for Minecraft. And Joel has the PS4 to game with his brothers, which isn't often. DSes are used for traveling mostly. Luke only gets an hour of screen time a day, so after typing all those out it seems a wee bit ridiculous.
 
I think the only one we don't own is the Wii. My oldest pretty much has all the older gaming systems...most likely boxed up somewhere, but he still owns them.
 
I think we have had them all over time too

Latest are xbox,xbox one,pap vita,ps3 and ps4 we're currently trying to sell the xbox one as my son doesn't use it and has used it maybe 5 times,big mistake buying that
 
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