From: MrGreenonion | #061
What's really interesting about those numbers are what it says about what's a "normal" amount of games to own for a system. I own more than triple the average number of games for every one of those systems, and I think most people who are really into video games are similar. So how many people must there be who own these systems and only have 1 or 2 games to give averages like that? At that point I can't really even imagine why I would want to buy the system at all.
Nor can I. And that's coming from someone who was indeed within those averages until a couple of years ago. I'd posted on Board 8 for a good long while before I was doing OK financially. I was the fluke on Board 8. But I didn't think I was the norm in general for that matter... apparently I was.
Even still, even as poor as I was, I didn't have one or two games for any of my systems except maybe the DS and PSP for a while. (Got the PSP for free from a friend, which was very cool.) Apparently there is a statistically relevant number of people out there who will literally buy a console or handheld for just those one or two games. They can't all be as poor as I was... I came into the systems I owned through lucky moments and occasional financial success, but most people with a PS3 have more money than I had at that time.
It just doesn't make a damn lick of sense. I guess there are just that many people who just wanted Madden or just wanted Monster Hunter or just wanted Pokemon or Call of Duty.
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