A question to console owners

[Vigormortis]

Well, I'm actually a PC gamer first-and-foremost, but I grew up on consoles. Still, I do have a few "current gen" consoles. Namely a Wii and a 360. (though part of me regrets not going the PS3 route instead of my 360. a very small part, mind you, but still)

But to answer the OPs question, let me put it this way:

If I were to open the closet in my living room, guess what I'd see in there... A series of neatly stacked consoles ranging from the Gamecube/Xbox era all the way back to the NES/Atari.

So...yes. I keep my consoles. In fact, every single one of my consoles; new or old; all still work. I keep them in good condition and, should something go "awry", I know how to fix them. Usually.

 

[Shinsei-J]

Still got my psx and ps2.
So keeping them just seems right to me.

 

[purplecactus]

As someone who doesn't own a console due to monetary issues but would like to... My master plan is to persuade my brother to buy it, then have him pass his old one on to me. That way I get a well-maintained console plus a whole heap of games, most of which I enjoy.

 

[mysecondlife]

Old consoles like N64's are deep in my parents' closet.

Consoles like PS3 is something I'd keep with me until it breaks. It beats buying another blu-ray player.

 

[The_Echo]

I keep them. I kept my PlayStation when I got the PS2, and I kept my PS2 when I got the PS3. I still have my Game Boy Advance SP and DS Lite while having a 3DS. I'm going to keep my PSP when I eventually get the Vita.

I figure eventually, I might want or need these older consoles/handhelds for something. Currently, my PSOne is hooked up to a second TV in my room. Sometimes I feel like playing some Pac-Man World while I watch Nick at Nite or something. My PS2 was unfortunately destroyed in a terrible dog-and-table-related accident; I kind of feel like getting another one.

If my NES and Genesis weren't missing a cable or inexplicably broken in some way, I would definitely still be using those.

 

[F'Angus]

Well I have my PS£ but I've still got my PS2 and my PS1. I don't see any reason for throwing them away.

 

[Able Seacat]

I would still like backwards compatibility please. I haven't decided if I'm gonna continue with the xbox or move to the next playstation. If I do go to the playstation it would be great to be able to play the PS3 games I missed.

 

[White_Lama]

Seeing as Microsoft seems to be more focusing on bullshit Kinect in the future I'm going to switch over and probably buy a Wii or PS3 and try out those game arsenals before I buy a next gen console.

And when I do I'll keep my 360 and still play it from time to time if I can't transfer memory/if it isn't backwards compatible.

 

[imagremlin]

Keeper here. They get stored/reconnected depending on what I feel like playing.

 

[LordFish]

As a member of The Master Race, the question in NA, however I do have a 360 for guests and multiplayer ext, I keep it in my bedroom, I'm surprise no one yet has answered "move it into my bedroom" or "move it into the living room for when the house is empty"

There are benefits to having tech spread out around the house

 

[Smeggs]

Wen you buy a next gen console, what will you do with your current gen console???
If the answer is keep it then why you need backward compabilyti??? You already have a device that plays current gen games. It's not that hard to switch cable.

Because on the chance that shit hits the fan with the new consoles like the current gen problems, it's nice to be able to have something to fall back to. For instance, when my first 360 got an internal component failure I had my PS2 to go back to until I was able to get a new 360.

 

[Shadowhawk77]

Keep them until there is no real use...I.E. i had a ps2 for about 3 years into having an xbox...but that was because i would replay final fantasy or kingdom hearts every once in a while but now that its no fun replaying them i gave it to a friend that has some old school games to play-keeping old consoles is basically making it a nostalgia machine and nothing more then that because they tend to drop in price dramatically(along with the games) and they generally have no new releases or updates making it slowly fall farther back from its newer brethren--->making no new fun for the console but a repeatable joy from the best games you have already played(if your into that kind of thing as some people cant ever restart a game without clawing their eyes out)

 

[Weentastic]

You never know when you might want an extra dvd player, or nowadays, you can even stream netflix, which is super awesome. If you happen to not have a bunch of hardware lying around that can do that, an old console is perfect for that.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

I still have all of my previous consoles. I'm surprised my N64 works as well as it does today.

Gonna sell my 360, though. Worst investment in my life. But without the 360, I would've never found out how awesome the PS3 is.

So I guess it wasn't all bad.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

I've still got a PS1 kicking around somewhere. I might have given it to my cousin, not sure.

Anyways, I'll probably keep my consoles for a bit and then give them away or sell em.

 

[karloss01]

I have every console that either myself or my father has owned since 1990, which is 15 consoles (both home and handheld) and over 200 games and was taught to never waste anything that still works (and expensive). other then my PS2, PS3 and 360 the others are safely in the attic or spare bedroom boxed and covered with the games in my room, should i ever want to play my N64 i can get it out and hook it up and play my Perfect Dark. if i want to play Chakan The Forever Man i can just pull out my Sega Mega Drive and play it.

the only way i'm gonna lose my consoles is if they are stolen or my house burns down, otherwise they will remain with me for as long as they can hold out; and even then i will attempt console CPR multiple times.

EDIT: also it means i can play old retro games as the designers intended and not have to hope that a emulation of a retro game on newer consoles is not filled with bugs or bits ripped out and replaced with a new or things taken away from it (recent classic sonic collections and Silent hill HD collection to name a couple).

 

[The Funslinger]

I kept everything. No real reason, I just don't like to get rid of old consoles. Maybe it's just nostalgia. Although backward compatibility isn't such a reliable thing any more. You can't be sure if all your old games will work on the new console any more.

The only reason I got rid of my old Xbox was because it broke. The disc tray went insane. It would open and close by itself randomly all the time, and it would never respond to any commands to open or close it. Eventually it just stopped opening all together. This was shortly after I got a 360. My 360 seems to be going a similar way actually. The disc tray gets stuck a lot of the time... when there's no disc in there. It's totally fine when there is a disc in there though, so I try to keep one in all the time.

My other older consoles work completely fine though. Except for the fact that my PS2 will almost always refuse to play GT4. Nothing wrong with corrupted memory or anything, it just won't read the disc 95% of the time.

For your 360 issue: I've had mine for years. The only problem was a few months ago the disc tray started having trouble opening. The console was vertical. I put it horizontal and it must have taken weight off some part of the tray, because it started opening easier. If your console is vertical, you might want to try that.

 

[Starik20X6]

Nostalgia, sometimes they come in handy, backwards compatibility isn't always there... Many reasons.

 

[MrBenSampson]

What worries me is what will happen if microsoft stops supporting the 360, and I get the red ring of death for the fifth time. Will I have no choice but to upgrade to next gen? If the next gen console doesn't have backwards compatability, what happens to my 360 library? Another scary thought is what will happen if they shut down Xbox Live for the 360. Will we lose all the game patches, reducing many titles to the buggy disasters they were on launch day?

As long as it doesn't break, I plan to keep it. Yesterday a buddy and I were playing a co-op campaign of Diablo on the PS1. Once we're done with that, we'll move on to the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1&2 for the PS2. On tuesday I had a couple friends over, and we played a few rounds of Mario Kart on the N64, before playing Gears of War 2. All of my consoles get a decent amount of use.

 

[Scrustle]

For your 360 issue: I've had mine for years. The only problem was a few months ago the disc tray started having trouble opening. The console was vertical. I put it horizontal and it must have taken weight off some part of the tray, because it started opening easier. If your console is vertical, you might want to try that.

I've always had it horizontal. I just guess it's because it's getting kind of old now. And we all know how well put together the disc trays of 360s are.