@Luke Maciak: Yeah, I’ve seen those games on the PS1. It looks extremely uncomfortable to play. :P

@IceBrain: I’m also very much inclined to buy a PSP, just to get into the homebrew emulator scene. The DS homebrew also has emulators but the hardware simply isn’t powerful enough to play SNES or any other generation of console after that. Tyrian 2000 has also been ported to the DS but the screen isn’t big enough and part of it is cut off. Functional enough to play, but it just seems unpolished and cumbersome.

Yeah, as much as I like Wii, it really is not something I would buy for myself. I’m more into single player FPS and RPG games.

I was considering getting an Xbox actually – it has better game selection and bigger community than 360 at this point.

@Mart: Same here – I like western style RPG’s. The JRPG genre doesn’t appeal to me that much.

I’m not that much into RTS or turn based strategy games but they do exist on consoles too. At least they used to. I actually own Warcraft, Command and Conquer and Red Alert for PS1. The gameplay is incredibly shitty with the pad but they exist,

@IceBrain: PSP looked interesting, but it seems to be a dead end technology. The mini-discs it uses did not catch on and I’ve heard they are expensive to make which means that less and less places produce them. So the platform is actually in decline, but the homebrew market is keeping it afloat. :)

The best new-gen console is PSP, mainly for it’s homebrew emulators. I can play almost every game made before the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube. But I still have a N64 in perfect condition and I take it for a spin every now and then. Unfortunately, I only have eight games, so I get a little bored sometimes : p

I owned a PS2 previously, but I was a poor uni student back then. So I sold it off to actually buy a new graphics card. :P It was not one of my proudest gaming moments.

PC gaming will always be my favourite, as my fav genres can only be effectively played on a PC. I love those management strategy simulations, like Gal Civ, Railroad Tycoon, Simcity. (GOG.com now has Capitalism Plus. I’m going nuts!) You can’t replicate these text-laden mouse-driven games on a console. Even if you can, I doubt the market that consoles target prefer these kind of games. I also love text and stat based RPGs, so again, best platform for that would be the PC. I never got into (and never will) jRPGs, which is like the main sub-type of RPG on the PS3. Fancy unskippable cutscenes with no impact on gameplay, minimal dialog choices and random encounters? Me no like.

I do have a Wii now, perfect for parties and social gathering. 4 Wiimotes + Wii Sports = hours of tennis and bowling. Yeah, I agree that Nintendo is shrewd with the Wii. Making it accessible means ability to sell to the mass market, not gamers. But games on the Wii is either really good, or really bad. It’s just wierd that way.

I love on-rails shooters (Time Crisis!) and I want a bluray player for the living room, so I’ll probably be getting a PS3 soon enough. The 360 has some nice games on the Live Arcade too.

For gaming on the go, I have a DS, just because of New Super Mario Bros and Prof. Layton. I’m not sure if the iPhone can be considered as a gaming device, but I’m certainly playing a lot of mobile puzzle games on it. Bejeweled is great for a 15-min session while on public transportation.

To me, each and every platform has its own appeal. I don’t really care which company makes it. As long as it’s fun, “I want to go to there…”

The last console I had was the PS2. It was a good system, but I sold it not too long after I got out of the military, so I could focus on passing my college courses (the GI Bill can be quite the incentive). Nintendo has always had an array of their titles (Mario, Metroid, Zelda, etc.), so you know their systems will always have at least a handful of good games. The problem is that it seems like that handful can stay pretty small (e.g., the N64 had a few great games, like Goldeneye, but not too many others). The Wii can be fun for casual gaming; it’s pretty easy to pick up, even if you’re an idiot. I just couldn’t justify paying that much without it being a hard core gaming machine. Most gamers I know have the 360, and many have had problems with it (including my brother, who has quite the frustrating story, but I won’t get into that). It’s got some great games though, and that’s really what drives the system. The PS3 is an impressive device, and I would heavily consider it if I were to get a console, but a large part of that is because none of my nearby friends has one, and I could find a friend any day of the week to play the 360, if I wanted. It would definitely be between those two though; the Wii would not enter my realm of consideration.

Still, the best system was the SNES!

I have a PS2 and a GameCube myself. Haven’t really seen much point in getting the newest generation of consoles. The Wii looks the best of them, but not good enough to justify the price, and Sony lost me when it decided to drop the b/c from the PS3. That was the major selling point of the PS2, all those RPGs which really don’t decrease too much in playability over the years were still usable without keeping around my old playstation. Now I know they did the software emulation, but there were just too many bugs and slow updates for me to consider that anything but a joke. I’d still take it over the 360, even without my loating of Microsoft, I know too many people who bought a brick to go down that road.