Biggest regret buying console or portable hardware?

[MercuryLS]

The earliest one I can remember is getting a game gear over a gameboy or snes/genesis. I thought, hey, why get a snes/genesis when I can have that type of machine be portable! The gameboy looked ancient the next to the game gear as well.

After getting it I could immediately tell I made a mistake. The thing was massive, drank 6 AA's like water and ran games that were baby versions of real 16bit titles.

Some other regrets were the 2DS, wanted access to the library at a cheap price, hated it. Xbox one fat, it was huge, external powerbrick, underpowered and halo mcc was dogshit at launch. Wii u was a waste of money too, no idea why I bought that.

 

[Lashley]

PS Vita for me

 

[Deleted member 63122]

Wii U.

 

[Theswweet]

Wii U.

 

[Transistor]

Xbox One. Used it for Sunset Overdrive and Lost Odyssey and that was pretty much it. It's gathering dust in the closet.

 

[Limelight Boy]

Wii U I think I used it 3 times total 🙈

 

[DownWithTheShip]

Vita for me. After 2 32Gb memory cards went bad I just gave up. Couldn't afford it anymore.

 

[PianoBlack]

Original 3DS I got like 8 months ago. I don't necessarily dislike it and the library is fantastic, but I should have just sprung for the N3DS even though they're more expensive/harder to find.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

1: Switch

I generally don't care much for Nintendo's first party games, and third party games I'll just get on PS4 for better graphics and trophies. Mario Odyssey was OK and BotW was boring as shit, and after that it's been dry as shit for exclusive games that interest me.

2: PSVR

It's not really bad, but I just never can be arsed to fire it up. I need to play Astro Bot tho..

3: PSP

Just gives me hand cramps if I play it for extended periods of time, and the kind of games it had that I liked would've been better on PS2 tbh.

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

I fail to understand how anyone could regret buying a Wii U. Had so many good games it's ridiculous.

For me, dunno if this counts but an Oculus Rift. Not enough substantial games, I didn't have enough room for it, the version I got only came with 2 cameras so I didn't get full tracking and it's a big pain to set up and takes up too much room by my pc. Put me off VR big time.

 

[Deleted member 91227]

Probably Wii U, but even that I wouldn't say I regretted is as it got a decent amount of usage.

My regrets have largely been peripherals. PSVR (just ended up not liking VR), Racing wheel/pedals/stand--just didn't get into racing sims and preferred stuff like Forza Horizon with a controller, fight stick--didn't get back into fighting games and things like MK I do play sometimes I like better with controller.

 

[vixolus]

PS Vita for me

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I bought it on launch as a 14 or so year old and splurged on the 128 gb memory card... yeah... I don't even think I finished Killzone Mercenary

 

[SpoonyBob]

Vita and WiiU.

Vita was actually a gift. I felt really bad not getting much use out of it, even if Tearaway was really creative.

 

[Deleted member 4869]

Probably the Switch.

I'm just waiting for Metroid Prime 4 to finish that game and sell the console.

 

[CloseTalker]

Vita, for sure. Just didn't use it very much

 

[Dega]

Virtual Boy I guess. It's the only one I ever returned lol

 

[NickatNite]

PS VIta, ended up forcing myself to use it, just to get my money's worth. Cool device, but just not for me.

 

[professor_t]

I bought the Xbox HD-DVD drive AFTER the format tanked because I figured I could get a ton of high-def movies at bargain basement prices. This was true, but I never bothered with the inconvenience of hooking the thing up and probably watched a grand total of 2 movies on the damn thing. It's still sitting in a drawer in my bedroom, but probably belongs in a museum.

 

[Pikagreg]

I regret it less now since it looks cool but I was really excited about the Pikachu n3DSXL since I loved the Pikachu 3DSXL (the nipple one) that I had. I learned about the TN/IPS screen thing a little after buying it and realized my old MH n3DSXL had dual IPS and wasn't really worth the downgrade for the Pikachu one.

 

[henhowc]

Yeah buying the psp was kind of a waste for me. I think I played a handful of games tops and I was never on the go so I'd rather just play what was on my TV and consoles. Kind of forced myself to play those games.

PSVR at launch was also a mistake. RE7 and Astrobot were nice experiences but wired is just too big of a pain to setup with that old breakout box that didn't passthrough HDR so you'd have to do swap cables.

 

[PepeElToro]

Vita was easily the worst.

 

[Dan]

Wii U

 

[ThreePi]

Definitely PSP. I think the game I played most on that was Final Fantasy VII. Then it sat it a plastic tub for years until I found it and the battery had popped out of it because it had swelled up so bad.

 

[Mozendo]

PS4 for me.
Bought it bcause Destiny wasn't coming to PC, got the Taken King limited edition too.
PS4 has nice games, but only cared about a handful of games.

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

Vita, amazing hardware but I almost never played it.

 

[JEH]

Probably 3ds. I barely played that thing. Basically a FE machine.

 

[Goldenroad]

Wii, Wii U, Vita...not necessarily in that order...but maybe. Switch is right up there too, but Hades kind of made it must-have for me this year.

 

[Ehoavash]

2DS/3DS horrible for my hands crampy as heck and terrible visuals for that time period

 

[Deleted member 17210]

I don't think I have ever regretted buying gaming hardware. I was pissed off at the 360's RROD but my first machine was replaced under warranty so I still got a few years out of that purchase.

 

[dom]

I bought it on launch as a 14 or so year old and splurged on the 128 gb memory card... yeah... I don't even think I finished Killzone Mercenary

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Impressive.

 

[werezompire]

Game Boy Advance for me. Got it for FFTA which I didn't like and that soured the whole experience for me. Not that the system didn't have a few good games (I like the GBA Tactics Ogre & Metroid Fusion), but I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much as I did the original Game Boy or the DS/3DS.

 

[Oldmario]

i bought a 3ds the month before the vita came out and have no idea why, i don't think it had much released at the time and i was pretty much done with everything a month or 2 after the vita came out so i sold it

hopefully when the switch pro comes out it won't turn out like that since most non AAA Japanese devs are heading for it and avoiding the PS4/PS5

 

[joefro]

Wii U, PSPgo and Vita. It's not that I necessarily regret the purchases, I just didn't use the hardware much. So I guess I do regret wasting the money, I guess.

 

[M. Wallace]

Anything handheld, I simply do not care to play them.

 

[t26]

wii U

 

[Irikan]

Yeah, PS Vita. The console itself is really nice, but yeah wasted potential, didn't end up using it much

 

[Squarealex]

Wii U

The main pad is awful

 

[JudgmentJay]

I don't really regret it, but 3DS is by far my least-used system. I only played 2 games on it, 1 of which is a SNES game. The library just isn't for me.

 

[Deleted member 5491]

Don't really have one but based on games played... the PS3 I guess?

 

[darkside]

Switch

I haven't cared for most of Nintendo's first party output on this device. The hardware has fallen apart on me faster than any other system I've owned. I've come to really hate the joycons.

 

[BriGuy]

PS Move or whatever the PS3's Wii ripoff was called. I think I had all of two games that supported it and neither was anything you would want to play more than once or twice.

 

[vixolus]

Impressive.

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Oops memory didn't last clearly. It was 64 that it capped out at right? The $99 one. (puke)

 

[GlacialTruffle]

PS3 - Price dropped by $100 shortly after getting it. Nothing to play for the first few years ~.~ Just a fancy PS2 for a while.

 

[dom]

Oops memory didn't last clearly. It was 64 that it capped out at right? The $99 one. (puke)

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It would have been a $32GB as that was the largest at launch.

 

[Enthus]

Vita is probably what I played the least. I bought is used after I SD2Vita launched though, so it's a PSP/emulation machine for me too. I had a PSTV for a few months and sold it after playing about 10 Hrs of Persona 4.

I didn't play many Wii U games, but I had hundreds of hours of local Smash Bros play during college.

 

[Crowh]

Switch probably, dont hate the system per se, but the only game that I have actually play a decent amount is XC2, portability is not really a factor for me.

 

[Diogo Arez]

None but if I had to pick? The Switch, especially as someone that loved their Wii U a lot and played most games that were ported. The only reason I say none is because in 2020 I started using it a bit more due to Xenoblade, 3D All Stars and Hades, the portable aspect is still useless for me tho,I would trade this one for a Pro dock only tbh.

 

[vixolus]

It would have been a $32GB as that was the largest at launch.

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Oh god it's even worse than expected

 

[DJ_Lae]

The only thing I regret about the WiiU is that Nintendo has been trying to re-sell me the same games I already bought, again, and at full price on the Switch.

The only piece of hardware I regret buying is my original PS3. I got it before they axed backwards compatibility and then proceeded to never use it (or the absurd array of memory card slots). Could have waited, spent less, and gotten a console that wasn't a huge fingerprint magnet. Oh well.

 

[LightKiosk]

PS Vita

Sold it within 4 days lol.