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Have you ever "skipped" a console generation?

Skipped a console generation before?

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Whether it's because of your own waning interest in games, not liking the direction of gaming, or certain business practices you didn't like. Whatever reason you might have had. Did you have a time of when you might have skipped?

I don't think I'll be bowing out of gaming as a whole, but I'm uncertain as to whether I'll buy a PlayStation 6 or Helix currently. That could change given enough time tho.

I think PS5 might be my last Sony system.
Nintendo has a little bit of good will, imo.
Xbox, I never messed with much beyond the OG and 360.

That said, even if i did skip next generation, there's still plenty of retro stuff that I can go back to or experience for the first time. Also, have some old games lying around I've been meaning to get to.
 
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The current one.

I've had:
NES
SNES/Genesis
PS1/N64
Dreamcast/PS2/GCN
Xbox 360
PS4

I bought a 3080 right when the PS5 released and have felt no need to buy one (but GTA VI may tempt me depending on how good it is).
 
I always need to pick up the latest generation on day one. I'll be getting a PS6 on day one, as well.

Xbox has completely lost me, though. It'll take quite a bit to convince me to get a Helix, and I've bought them all.
 
I had to think about that, since I've been in from the beginning. I think I have to say yes, because my first system was an Atari 5200. I also skipped the NES for the SNES.
 
nah I buy every console now regardless. I barely played my ps5 and Xbox over my pc but there was still a handful of games for each I had to play. Xbox's only saving grace for me is play anywhere. I would say 90% of my Xbox purchases this gen was play anywhere games.

But if now I mainly buy Games and play on my switch 2. Why?

1. I'm a huge Nintendo fanboy
2. If it breaks I can more easily afford to get a new one
3. I'm a super huge Nintendo fanboy.
 
Not a whole console generation, just some consoles in a generation.

Nintendo: NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, skip, skip
Playstation: skip, skip, PS3, PS4 Pro, PS5 Pro
Xbox: skip all
 
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I skipped consoles after PS3. Went 100% PC.

Technically a friend gave me his PS4 & I bought Bloodborne, but I only played it for maybe10h, now it sits there on the other desk collecting dust.
I still don't fully understand how to actually turn it on and off.
 
I've skipped the Wii and then got the Wii U. I skipped the Switch and got the Switch 2. I don't have the latest Xbox Series. I sure as hell wont be getting a PS6 or the Helix if they are going all in on the digital route. Switch 2 is looking like the last console I'll own.
 
Half of one. Xbox One, PS4, Wii U. I didn't want any part of that.
Came back when PS4 Pro released, along with Xbox One X and eventually the Switch.
 
No, never since my first console N64 I always buy all the consoles from each gen.

The next I already decided going with Switch 2 and PC.
 
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No not really. I did mostly stop gaming after my PS3 died in 2012 until I got a PS4 in 2015. I was really busy launching a new business and I just sort of fell off it for a while. That's the longest I've ever stopped gaming. I remember being pissed off when I started again how every game now seemed to force in totally unnecessary and tedious RPG mechanics.
 
I've skipped PS2 & PS3 generations. I was a PC-only gamer for many years and then picked X360 as the cheaper option (also thanks to getting games from alternative sources ;)).
 
Never a whole gen. I've skipped on very very few consoles since I've been able to work and buy them myself. Only systems I never bought were the Saturn and Series consoles. There's older ones like the Neogeo (I"m buying the AES+ Ult bundle though). I've had a PC since around 13-14 so I've always been riding the waves between PC, console, and handheld gaming. The way things are currently looking I wont get a PS6 unless they turn their exclusive output around. There's no reason to buy an Xbox unless you think gamepass is something must have. I have a Switch 2 though and have been enjoying it A LOT since Starfox and looking forward to Splatoon Raiders. But I most "modern" gaming on my PC (and deck) and lots (most) gaming on retro on my Superstation One and soon to be Ayn Thor
 
Not yet. I will say that I've been playing less and less each generation though. I legitimately have played maybe 10 total hours on the PS5 and 30 minutes on the Switch 2. If I'm playing games, it's usually on PC now. I keep the consoles around for exclusives, but even those haven't been drawing me in. It's going to be an easy decision not to get a PS6.
 
Didn't bother with a PS5. (I owned a PS4 Pro.)
Didn't bother with Xbox Series X because I had hardware issues with an Xbox One (I sold it after just 2 months of owning it.)

Happy with my PC. (My Switch 2 gets a little use, purely for exclusives.)

I doubt I'll bother with a PS6. As much as I like Uncharted and The Last of Us; I refuse to give Sony any of my money after their recent decisions to ditch the PC market and stop producing physical media.
 
I skipped the PS1 and the Xbox 1.
I was doing the PC thing back in the olden days. Still do PC today.
I eventually got a PS2 somewhere along the way.

I had a Sega Tower of Power. Genesis/CD/32X/Master system.
I used to have a used Dreamcast for a while till it died.

I also skipped the majority of the Nintendo consoles. The Wii U was my first Nintendo console that wasn't a handheld.
Wii-U, Switch 1&2. And lots of Nintendo handhelds. I think I've had all the Nintendo handhelds.

It's looking likePS6 and the Helix are going to be skipped this generation.
I'll wait till Sony either releases their 1st party games on PC OR wait till they rerelease and remaster their games on the PS7.
 
Not yet. I started playing games sometime around 1997 so when I was like 5 and I've had at least 1 of the consoles every generation since then. My first console was the PlayStation 1.

5th Gen - PlayStation 1
6th Gen - PlayStation 2, Xbox
7th Gen - PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii
8th Gen - PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Switch, Switch OLED
9th Gen - PS5, PS5 Slim, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Switch 2, PlayStation Portal if that counts

Handheld wise excluding Switch I also had a GameBoy Color, PSP, DS Lite, and Vita.

I also had some form of "gaming pc" the entire time (In the earlier days I wouldn't consider the PC to be a gaming pc but I played games on it. I would say my first "real" gaming PC would have been when HL2 came out) outside of a period in the 7th gen where I stopped playing PC games altogether. On the PC handheld front it's Steam Deck, Steam Deck OLED, and then later on another Steam Deck as I sold the other two but missed having it.
 
i skipped the xbox one/ps4 generation, i gamed myself into oblivion with the 360 so got a bit burnt out.

ive since played all the games i missed from that generation on my series x via back compat tho.
 
In terms of Nintendo I had a Famiclone and a SNES, bought a GB too but skipped GBC/GBA, N64 and GC entirely. Then bought a DS first and then a Wii. Skipped 3DS and Wii U entirely. And almost skipped Switch too. In terms of Microsoft, I skipped everything. In terms of PS I skipped everything but PSP (which I bought to watch Mission: Impossible videos only). So yes, I spent quite a lot of time without a "current gen" console.
 
I was born in '76 and have owned every gen since OG Atari:

Atari 2600
Colecovision
NES
Genesis
3DO
PS1
N64
Dreamcast
Xbox
Xbox 360
PS3
Xbox One
PS4
Series X
PS5
 
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I owned a PS2 and loved it. I skipped PS3 and got a Wii instead because it was the only console that had the sort of fun adventure games I grew up with. Then came PS4 and it still didn't have much of anything I really wanted so I got a Switch as it had Zelda. Then finally I thought that PS5 had enough games like RDR2, Spider-Man 1 and Ghost of Tsushima that I could have fun with. Expecting more to come. Then I was hit with Spider-Man 2 where they mixed in a bunch of non-Spider-Man shit. Then I was hit with not getting Ghost of Tsushima 2. And now the generation is coming to an end and I don't know when Intergalactic will really come.

At least GTA VI is a super major game I'll be able to enjoy on my PS5.

Will not most likely be getting a PS6 since I don't know what I would even play on it. Most third party games are no longer in my tastes. There's no longer games like Ape Escape or SSX. I don't want overly serious and cinematic games with shallow and tedious gameplay. I think I'll just clear out my backlog during the next gen and get a Switch 2 once it gets Zelda and Mario. So technically I haven't been skipping generations, but it feels like it due to me being a Playstation fan.
 
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From home computers in the 80's to the PS5/Switch 2, I have not skipped any generation.

Console makers are making more plausible that I will for the next generation.
 
Last console hardware I bought was: Xbox One, PS4, Wii U, 3DS

Not once have I felt like I've missed anything not owning a PS5 or an Xbox X Series X S One X Series

I didn't bother with Switch either, maybe I'd have enjoyed it but I didn't really care for the idea of the handheld/console combo. Didn't love the joycons, and sure you can get proper controllers the console, but the games were still designed with joycons in mind.

On the non-console side I went from: Spectrum, Amiga, PC and have kept the PC thread since and expect to do so forever. The Sony/Xbox offerings just feel like shit PCs with walled garden store fronts. Not interesting.
 
I played the least back half of 16bit era and PSX and N64 generation because I was playing high school sports and chasing tail all day. But I made up for lost time. I stopped owning every console every gen midway through PS360Wii and switched to PC. Got teenage kids, so we've still ended up owning every console in the house somewhere other than the PS5. But my oldest still talks about maybe getting one sometime. Stay tuned.

I got a N64 for Christmas, but pretty much ran through Ocarina with a strategy guide and after that it became an NFL Blitz and Ready 2 Rumble machine for high school blunt sessions. Wasn't doing any critical gaming again until PS2 era. But I had a Dreamcast in college and it kinda the same role as the N64. Tony Hawk machine, probably never played it alone though.

PS2, Xbox, GC is far and away the pinnacle of gaming in America. Classics dropping monthly. More great AA than you can play. Just tons of excitement and it all felt so affordable.
 
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I somewhat skipped the 32 bit generation, as at the time I ended up buying the N64 which for me could hold its own on anything the PS1 and Saturn had, I did have the CD32 at launch, but lets face it, it was the LEAST powerful 32 bit system in the history of that generation and didn't get much "mileage" if at all out of it...
 
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I noped out of console after 360/PS3 gen.

360 was good but I had to buy a second because of RRoD - annoying. PS3 I picked up late gen for the supposedly good exclusives. If Uncharted 1 & 2 were what was going to pass for good on console going forward, they were no longer for me.

PC my beloved since ~'95. Amiga before that.
 
I have had black and white Gameboy (1994 - 1998), Playstation 2 (2003 - 2006) and Playstation 4 Pro (2016 - 2019).

I got my first PC in 1998 and played 95% of my played games on that.
 
Skipped this gen. No interest in Xbox S/X or PS5. I'll get a S2 when it has about ten games that interest me. Its currently on four.

PC comes first for me.
 
I have been gaming before consoles and it is starting to look like I will be gaming after. I have never skipped a console gen. I have not ever skipped a console from any of the mainstream makers and have owned a lot of the alternate consoles. I am sure I have missed a few obscure ones. Gaming has been my main hobby and I have been all in. Going into next generation it looks like I might start downsizing and consolidating. Probably for the best, my granddaughter is eying my house and will probably boot me out in the next five years. :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
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