LogFAQs > #879665969

Obligatory "PC is not a console" comment.

Semi-obligatory "Handhelds shouldn't count as handhelds because that's always been bullshit" comment.



Okay, now that's out of the way... I have no idea. It's kind of difficult to quantify 34 years of gaming in any realistically accurate sort of way.

I can say that, over the last decade or so, the original Xbox slowly edged out the PS2 as my primary console of choice, and that the 360 pretty much replaced both of them entirely, racking up a hell of a lot of playtime over the last 5 or so.

Once the PS4 entered the picture, it muscled a lot of playtime away from the 360, though I still use the 360 for watching YouTube and occasionally playing any number of games.

Prior to that... my gaming history is basically ColecoVision/Atari 2600->NES->SNES->PS1->PS2->360->PS4, but it's hard to say which ones got played more. When I was younger games weren't as long, but I had way more free time to play them, whereas now, I have to budget time more effectively but I may still sink 40+ hours per run into a game like Mass Effect. I might be able to say that I played a game like Ninja Gaiden or Zelda II to completion MORE than I have Mass Effect, but those games also didn't take as long as ME does. So I have a real hard time parsing out overall playtime as a whole.

Just in terms of chronological time, though, I probably spent something like 5 years only owning a ColecoVision (that could also play Atari 2600 games), then I had my NES for about 4 years before I mostly switched to the SNES and never looked back. I traded in my SNES after about 4 years to get my PS1, and I had that for about 5 years before getting my PS2.

My PS2 theoretically lasted the longest, since I had that for nearly 11 years before I sort of drifted over to the 360 for good - but the PS2 also shared time with my original Xbox for most of its lifespan (I got the Xbox about 3 years after the PS2), and like I already mentioned, towards the end I was definitely spending more time on the Xbox than the PS2 (the last major PS2 games I remember getting excited for were all from 2006-7 or so).

I got my 360 in 2012, and I pretty much played nothing but 360 games from then until I got my PS4 about 2 years ago. Since then I've jumped back and forth between the two relatively evenly, though I'm slowly starting to drift more towards the PS4 overall these days.

I've always been a late adopter for consoles in general. The PS2 and PS4 are really the only exceptions, and even with those, I didn't get them until a year or so after release.


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