Do you buy consoles fairly late into their life cycle?

I have to say I am guilty of this. I am usually content for a while with a previous generation. I remember I didn't even get a PS2  until almost in  2006. Before then, I just mainly had the PS1 and the Cube. (Not counting anything from the generation before that). Its just that there were already so many good games out and were cheaper since the PS2 was pretty old at that point and the next gen systems were about to come out later in 2006. Not only that, but usually when new consoles are released, they get improvements later on down the line. I got the PS3 in August of 2009, and the Wii just last year to be exact.

Also, I have a ton of backlog of fun games already so I never saw the need to buy a console when it just would come out and such. I really couldn't care less about graphics much to be honest. Yeah its cool to look at the pretty new graphics when a console comes out, but really its mainly about the gameplay for me.

Is there anyone out there who pretty much does the same thing? I don't want to be the only one now lol. I don't feel the need to rush and get the newest this and that. Just the type of person I am I suppose.

I can see how you could be in your position, especially if you came late to the last generation you will have a lot more stuff to get through before you feel ready to move on, but for me I'm pretty much a day 1 person, regardless of whatever shitty launch games I end up with :D

I only buy new consoles when a game comes out I really want. I am not one of those "this is the new thing I have to buy it types". I got my 360 when Oblivion came out and I bought my PS3 around the time  Uncharted 2 released. To me when it comes to buying consoles it always been about the games. If I don't have the console and a game is released or is coming out to where I think "I have to have that" then I will pick it up.

Nah, I usually jump right in in the first 6 months of a new consoles release.

I like to get them within the first 6 months or so, when Im still really hyped about them.

Normally i buy consoles very early after launch. I bought the xbox360 months after launch. The RROD story was already building when I got mine. I've preferred the MS consoles over the PS, mostly because of the controllers and LIVE. I've been planning on getting a PS3 when the price is low enough for me. Hell I already have 3 PS3 games (infamous, uncharteds) waiting to be played. I'll grab a PS3 after the next price drop for sure. I prefer to get consoles at launch but I have other interests that drain my wallet so the secondary console has to wait.

Depends on the games really. I wait for a game that compels me to buy a console.

Like for the current generation, Gears of War convinced me to buy a 360 and Uncharted 2 convinced me to buy a PS3.

For consoles, I'm usually in the fucking midnight line day one. I'm more likely to start up late in the cycle for hand-helds though.

I usually buy the console i want most day one. But then get the other brand later down the line, after it has seen some price drops.

Consoles I just wait until a game I want to play.

I waited until Gears came out for the 360.

And I waited until Uncharted 2, Demon's Souls and Metal Gear Solid 4 went discount for the PS3

I'm retarded and have too much money.

I got the 360 on 2007, but after too much failure, I got the PS3 December 2009. So, you were actually faster than me in terms of getting PS3

@Otacon really? Even if MGS is going multi-platform, I think Hideo will put a special feature for the PS

Got my 360 in 2009 and my ps2 in 2010.  I actually think the ps2 has far better games and is full of silly fun.  The 360 seems like it's full of horrible games that have gone in the wrong direction since I got that.

I got a PS1 really early in, it was £300 at the time, then sold it a few months later and bought one again when the price crashed.  N64 was bought straight out of the gate.

I usually wait for the first price drop for consoles.

I usually wait a couple of yars or so before deciding to get a good feel for how well they will be supported, and general feedback about the systems.

I bought a 360 a year ago

" @LordXavierBritish: LOL. The most dangerous combination is when you're retarded and DONT have any money though. "

Bought the PS3 in 2008 and the 360 in 2009. I can't remember exactly when I bought older consoles but it was most likely 1-2 years after they launched

I buy most of my consoles on their release dates with the exception of Xbox and PS2 which I bought several years after they were released.

I'm usually two/three years behind everyone else when it comes to consoles.

Except for the Nintendo Game Boy, which I got fairly close to it's original release in Sweden in the early 90's (consoles usually were released a couple of years later than in other countries at that time), I'd say yes, I got the Nintendo 64 around 1999 or so, pretty much the last year or so in it's cycle. I got the PS2 in 2008 and the PS3 just a couple of months ago. Consoles are just way, way too expensive for me to ever get in the early half of their cycle. I've generally been sticking to PC gaming, since the incremental upgrade way works much better with the income I can ever hope to have.

" I buy most of my consoles on their release dates with the exception of Xbox and PS2 which I bought several years after they were released. "

i usually buy new consoles withing the year of the release, but after the clusterfuck this gen launch was i'll wait maybe 18 months before buying the next gen consoles

I never buy consoles late.

Most of the time I buy them either AT launch or a few years after, when there is some fancy schmancy bundle.

I tend to get them right when they come out or pretty close to it. Its exciting to me and I enjoy it even if that means a few bad launch games.

I always get in early and usually day one on Nintendo stuff.

I got into the SNES late due to being broke as a teenager, other than that anything I buy is pretty early (within a year of launch).

I normally buy the consoles as soon as I can, it might not be day 1 but its when I get the money and it has that one game I feel like I must play. I was a couple years late on 360 though since I had the PS3 and Wii.

I only buy them when there are several exclusives I want to play and they've been significantly discounted.

If I could, I'd buy every console day one. But since money is a thing that exists, I usually wait about a year. At least that's what I did for my 360 and OG Xbox.

I buy as early as I can afford to.

come to think of it, new consoles are mad expensive. Saturn was launched $399 @ '95! Thats a lot of money back then.

Usually somewhere in the middle, around the 1st or 2nd price drop. I always wait until the platform has at least 4-5 games for it that I really want to play before I even consider buying it. Hardware is just the middle man to get me to the games, so if there is no games then there is no point in owning the hardware.

Depends on money as well as if there's games out that I want to play & can't play anywhere else.

7G is the first time I've actually done this. I opened with a Wii in 06, an Xbox in 07, then the PS3 this year.

I tend to get in early. The only console I got later in the cycle was a PS3. I got it when Killzone 2 came out. Since I get into the console cycle early, I'm among the people who want new fucking hardware now,

" Normally i buy consoles very early after launch. I bought the xbox360 months after launch. The RROD story was already building when I got mine. I've preferred the MS consoles over the PS, mostly because of the controllers and LIVE. I've been planning on getting a PS3 when the price is low enough for me. Hell I already have 3 PS3 games (infamous, uncharteds) waiting to be played. I'll grab a PS3 after the next price drop for sure. I prefer to get consoles at launch but I have other interests that drain my wallet so the secondary console has to wait. "

I try to get consoles as early as I can, I don't want to miss out on any good launch titles and since I'm Australia and we don't get consoles till few months later than US that allows me some time to consider the games that come out for it in those few months as well as any hardware problems that rise up.

I didn't anytime before now but I think that from now on I will be a very late adopter of the consoles. I play PC games a hell of a lot more than I ever play my consoles.

The only console I bought on release date was my original xbox. Everything else I have waited years before buying. There's three main reasons for this. The first is technical issues. RRoD put me off buying the 360 and the price put me off the PS3. Secondly, with the 360 revised version (Jasper chipset and new look) along with a cheaper price convinced me it was time to buy. Thirdly, by the time I bought it, there was already a huge catalogue of quality games at fantastic prices.

All my previous consoles Megadrive, Playstation 1&2 , N64, Gamecube were all bought well into their cycles

It's the same with games, I wait 6 months after release before buying for better prices and the games patched so the majority of bugs are fixed. I generally play single player so whether others are playing the mutiplayer or not doesn't matter.

I always buy them early, I see little point hanging around.

I usually wait a bit so a lot of the hardware problems are ironed out and so I can afford it.  I got a Wii in 2007, a PS3 in 2008, and a 360 in 2009.

I bought my PS3 in August of '08, so I'm not sure if that was late or not. I think with my Sega and N64, I came in to the party a year or two late, but I was only a little kid, and only discovered them long after their release. We got our Gamecube on launch day, and the original XBOX a couple of years after. This generation I bought the 360 a month or two (possibly less) after release. 

Depends on HYPE