Biggest regret buying console or portable hardware?

[Rodney McKay]

It was a gift, but the Wii U.
Had some great games, but it basically felt like beta hardware for the Switch.
One of my least played video game systems ever. I only played all the way through 3D World, Wind Waker HD, and Mario Kart 8. Everything else I'd just play for a while and get tired of using that cheap feeling tablet.

Original 3DS was pretty rough at launch, but I didnt mind the hardware and eventually I got those ambassador games which was cool, even if most of the GBA game emulation was ghost-y and the colors were kinda washed out.

 

[RPGam3r]

Dreamcast for me. The system had very little that interested me at launch or even after, and then it was all over.

 

[shinobi602]

Wii U probably.

I sold it after a few months.

 

[inpHilltr8r]

XBox One Day One Edition. Never hooked up the Kinekt. Dustiest console ever. XBox One X was a legit comeback though.

Vita had a Minter Tempest, and Yak is an auto save for a console. I still have mine easy to hand, just in case. 1 game? Yes. If it's the right one.

Wii U had several great games that you can now play on Switch, so maybe I could have waited on that one. It was certainly the most disappointing.

 

[CanUKlehead]

I generally think, since they're so wildly popular critically and commercially, that I'll always love Nintendo's games and systems, but the reality is, I don't get as much out of them as I'd like.

What I mean is, there are absolute bangers across the generations that I really enjoyed: Double Dash and Wind Waker, Wii Sports/Resort on Wii, Mario 3D Land, Bayo 2, BOTW, and MK8 on Wii U, a few Mario games on 3DS...but I honestly felt like I could have waited to get those games years later and I would have been fine. That is a testament to how great those games are, but also that I didnt need to invest money at launch for those Nintendo machines and could have just gone on a cheap shopping spree years later. Conversely, there is enough on a PS and Xbox that suits my tastes that I feel like they never collect dust.

So not really "regret" but regret getting Nintendo consoles at or near launch cause I rarely play them through their life span, and could easily skip generations.

Now here's hoping I can continue to hold out on Switch until their next gen console lol

Tbf, I also regret getting a Vita at launch, as I only played through a handful, could have waited years later to get it for what I use it for--playing PS1 games.

 

[Vertpin]

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.

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The PS4 has an incredible library of games. Do you mind if I ask what games series/genres you play?

 

[hersheyfan]

In my case it's the PS4 Pro, hands down.

I really loved my OG launch PS4 but the BD drive had begun randomly spitting out discs every so often. I hadn't been using the PS4 very much, having switched over to PC midway through the generation, but a friend convinced me to buy a Pro instead of just getting another regular PS4. Huge waste of money, I barely turned the thing on and when I did the "benefits" of having the premium unit weren't exactly mind blowing. Should have just gotten a new model regular PS4 for cheap.

 

[Firima]

PS4 Pro. I liked my PS4 but despite making my games prettier, the Pro was just a poor piece of perpetually angry hardware trying to break free of my bedroom to return to its home planet. I should've obliged.

 

[VanWinkle]

3DS. Was expensive, had terrible viewing angles and even worse sweetspot for 3D, extremely uncomfortable, super unergonomic dpad and button layout. Man I hated that thing. Only ended up playing Mario 3D Land and Donkey Kong Country Returns.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Agreed word for word on 1 and 2. I sold the Switch but will hold onto PSVR so long as I have the PS5. Never owned a PSP though.

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The Switch ain't bad, but the last three years have been a long, dry spell for games that interest me for it. I have Bayo 2 I should play though. I was interested in Deadly Premonition 2, but after the middling reviews... ehhh.

I'll keep the PSVR, but might sell the Switch after MP Trilogy + MP4 are out. Unless Nintendo gives me that damn Eternal Darkness port I want >:(

 

[Crono]

Ps5... bought it just cause why not... only played miles morales and its been collecting dust. But hoping that changes in the future

 

[mhayes86]

None. I didn't have too many games for the Xbox, Wii, Wii U, and Vita, but each served their purpose and I had a great time with the games I played.

 

[angelgrievous]

NeoGeo pocket color. Wish I still had it but back then that thing was not for me.

 

[Azel]

Virtual Boy lol

 

[NuclearCake]

Yeah, it is the Wii U by a large margin. Only Nintendo console I regret owning.

 

[RadioJoNES]

I would say Vita but between Persona 4 Golden, Spelunky, Soul Sacrifice, and Chrono Trigger PS1 I got my worth out of it.

 

[balohna]

Base Xbox One. Ended up getting a One X, which I love and still use (don't have any of the new consoles), but that original Xbone was pretty pointless. I had a PS4 first so it was basically just an exclusive machine, and well...


I loved my Wii U though.

 

[Apath]

.

 

[Crayon]

I bought this instead of a PSP.

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OH RIGHT.

I forgot. Yah this is the one I regret.

 

[Yatagarasu]

I'd say PS4. I bought it for Bloodborne but didn't get into it as much as Dark Souls. I played everything else that interested me on PC.

 

[xir]

So much birthday money on an apple Newton 110. My plan was to beige box neighbors houses with an acoustic coupler to dial long distance BBSs

 

[Tatsu91]

Buying a 2080Super instead of waiting 7 months for a 3080

 

[sdefresne]

For me that would be the Xbox 360. I bought it to play Last Odyssey. The third disc had been scratched in the box, only found when I reached that point in the game. Could never finish it. The box ended up collecting dust and I sold it a year later as no other game interested me on the console.

 

[timshundo]

PS Vita And PSTV (even tho it was just $20). I never bought I bigger, expensive-ass proprietary memory card out of spite. It was just my LUMINES and PSone classics machine.

I own Wii U and like 50 different versions of DS/3DS and they don't even come close. Wii U had a great library and introduced md to my first love, splatoon.

 

[El-Suave]

Atari Jaguar, that thing was hilariously bad in retrospect. I paid good money on that because I was hyped on it for whatever reason.

 

[Scruffy8642]

I bought a Vita and Wii U in recent years, and although I haven't played them a whole lot yet, I imagine I will eventually. Vita for it's emulation of retro consoles on the go, and Wii U for having the entire GameCube and Wii collections in one place (though I guess a Wii can do the same lol). Definitely don't regret either, and I got them both just before they started to go up in price, so I think I chose the right time.

I know many people with VR headsets that use them for like one game a year. Main reason I haven't gotten one, figure I'd definitely regret it.

I remember getting both a DS and 3DS before there was really anything to play on them, so I barely used them for a good year or two before stuff came out. Ended up playing both a ton in the end, so defs worth it in the long run.

 

[Shiz Padoo]

Probably the Ouya.

 

[ElephantShell]

Probably the Wii U because the Switch was announced not all that long after I got mine. Got it refurbished from Nintendo so it was pretty cheap so it wasn't that big of a deal.

 

[gimmmick]

Wii

It was the only console I have ever sold. Haven't purchased a Nintendo handheld or console since then.

 

[s_mirage]

PS4 and PS Vita. I hardly used them.

Most of the games I was interested in on the PS4 came out on the PC, which is where I do most of my gaming, and the Vita's exorbitantly inflated memory card prices discouraged me from buying much on the system.

 

[AstronaughtE]

3ds. I bought it a few months before the switch and only played snes games.

 

[Sonicfan1373]

Xbox One:
I bought it because Kinect looked really cool and I was excited for Fable Legends and potential stuff from Rare. A few years later Kinect was gone and integration was removed from the system, the games I was excited for didn't materialize or were canceled, and much of the output was also brought to PC. Not a bad console by any stretch of the imagination but didn't offer me much. I still plan on potentially picking up a Series X only for enhanced Xbox 360 games (but I am still going to wait a while before doing that).

PS Vita:
Great hardware (for the most part, it wasn't the most comfortable) but lack of software (though it had some good gems) is what it comes down to for this portable.

 

[Charred Knight]

I have never regretted buying a console but WII U is probably the one I played the least out of.

Super Smash Bros for the WiiU didnt even have the best mode from Super Smash Bros for the 3DS which was Smash Run, Xenoblade Chronicles X was what I bought the system for and it was fine, I love Hyrule Warriors but they also released that for the Switch and I picked it up just before AoC came out, they are going to release Super Mario 3D World real soon

Outside of Xenoblade Chronicles X, you could have skipped it for the later and superior Switch,

 

[Hello Snake]

Sega gamegear probably. And launch model 3DS.

 

[inpHilltr8r]

Oh I completely forgot the PSTV, and the Stadia founders pack which both arrived after I realised I was never going to use them. The Stadia kit is still sealed. The PSTV is impressively small, but opening the box was about as far as it got.

 

[theAllseeingEYE]

I haven't really regretted much of any consoles or systems I've owned. Pretty much every one always has some unique and cool games to play if you know what to look for.

I was probably most apathetic towards the 3DO though.

3DO was neat, I got it used several years ago with a pile of discs. Unfortunately, pretty much every game ran at 30fps, even 2D platformers like Gex, so playability was weak. Also, the system had very few unique standout titles that weren't already ported to other platforms in better form. Gex was my favorite along with Road Rash, and both had better versions elsewhere. I actually liked the Atari Jaguar a lot more (better controller, great unique games like Tempest 2000 and Alien vs Predator). I'm sure I would have loved 3DO if I could afford it back in the day.

 

[StrappingYoungLance]

I can't really say I have much in the way of regret buying a console. I've gotten enjoyment out of basically every system I've owned? I even enjoyed my WiiU despite its droughts, Nintendo's big releases were excellent.

Xbox One would have been a fairly easy answer here, after playing a few titles like Rise of the Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon 2 and Sunset Overdrive when I first got it I went years barely touching the system. Game Pass in the last couple of years helped redeem it though.

 

[GeorgePBurdell]

I bought the PSTV and played it for maybe 10 minutes. Complete waste of money.

 

[Miya Moto]

Switch for me.

 

[sam777]

PS Vita

 

[tatwo]

Bought 3DS at launch and didn't really play anything on it for the first 4 or so years.

 

[Acidote]

PS4. I love the console from a design pov. I lñove a lot of exclusive.

I fucking hate that 3 of the damn consoles broke down on me, different things breaking on each, while being in a perfect location recarding power outlets, ventilation, cleanliness. I just had atrocious luck so fuck it. I'll play my PS4 backlog on a PS5 when I get my finances back on track.

 

[Joe White]

The PS4 has an incredible library of games. Do you mind if I ask what games series/genres you play?

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For me day-1 PS4 is the latest regret on console space, as experiencing overwhelming shittyness of Killzone and Knack tainted the whole system that even Resogun couldn't save. Returned everything around day-15 or so, and only returned later for Bloodborne and Destiny (as my friends wanted to play that on PS). After that, there have been about 1 great per year for the system, but plenty of more duds.

 

[Kittenz]

Probably PS3. Bought it on sale as a Blu-Ray player mostly thinking "oh why not spend the extra $ and just get console instead." Never really used it much as was so invested in 360 by then.

it did lead to maybe the greatest first date of my life, however. /raised eyebrow.gif

 

[OsramTaleka]

Switch. I've never bought fewer games for a console or handheld since the original Game Boy. I've bought more games through PSN since I got my PS5. I don't regret it but, if I had to choose, Switch would be the one.

 

[LilScooby77]

iPod touch for gaming.

 

[marcinaldo]

It's usually Nintendo consoles for me. I want to play their games, buy the hardware. Everything is so expensive and usually apart from few examples ends up not worth it for me so I usually sell the console. I did it with Switch on launch and bought it again this year. It would have been probably unused and sold after 2 months but then my son started playing it and he fell in love with Mario games.

Other than that it was also Xbox One that I sold really quickly and PSVR because setting this up to play took so much time (and also made me sick) but both of those also had some things that I really enjoyed - Forza Horizon and Astro Bot respectively

 

[cowbanana]

The PS4 Pro was really abysmal. It felt cheaply engineered on many levels from physical build to the infamously shitty cooling and ridiculous jet engine sound. I got so tired of it I went back to my original PS4 for the last year of exclusives.

I'm really wary to pick up a PS5 with all the reports of coil whine, noisy disc drive, fan rattling etc. Also there seem to be far too many games crashing on the system. I'm waiting for Sony to solidify firmware/build quality before I'll even consider buying one.

I'd gladly pay €100 more for a console if it didn't have all these abysmal issues from using the cheapest possible parts. I just want a nice premium experience, not cheap shit.

 

[Jon Carter]

I don't think I really regret it because I got a decent deal on it by combining launch deals across several stores, but I was surprised at how few games I was interested in the Vita ended up getting. I knew before launch it flopping was a possibility, but I still thought there would be more. It basically died after its first year as far as I'm concerned.

Neo Geo Pocket Color I only ever got one game for because it had been discontinued by the time I went back to the store to get a second game. I enjoyed the system, but, yeah, one game is not enough.

The N-Gage QD was interesting but half-baked and never got the support it needed.

I expected the Pokémon Mini to get more games than it did (I think Europe only ever got the four? launch ones), but damn did I play the hell out of the ones that I got.

 

[adit]

i bought used PS3 FAT, turned out it was refurbished, after 6 month of usage, it got YLOD and lost some save files on some games :(

after that i bought new PS3 slim, it still works like a charm till today

i learned my lesson, never again buying used console