Poll: Have you ever bought a console for one game?

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Yep.

I bought Nintendo's GameCube for the Resident Evil remake. Ended up buying the rest of the RE games released for the system, but the Remake was why I initially made the purchase.

 

[Goofguy]

Never have and never will. Undoubtedly, there would be no shortage of other games I would eventually get. However, I'd rather get the console that interests me for multiple reasons as opposed to just because of one game.

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

I bought a gamecube for supersmash bros, that was the game that had me buy it but there were plenty of others that followed. I would say Vita, but I bought it with a few titles in mind.

 

[Blazingdragoon04]

No, but I'm very very tempted to buy the 3DS for Paper Mario: Sticker Star. I love that series; each Paper Mario game has such great, quirky humor and fantastic gameplay, and I believe the newest one will still have all that. Plus it seems like they made it a bit more challenging, which is one of the only things I would change about the Paper Mario games; they are just a bit too easy.

 

[regalphantom]

For one game, no, never. For me, in order to justify the purchase, there would need to be at least a few games worth my time before I would consider picking one up. Heck, I still wouldn't have a 3ds if one wasn't gifted to me, and there is quite a bit that I have played on that (I would maybe pick one up sometime early next year if I didn't have one already).

 

[Andy Shandy]

I'm tempted to get a WiiU for ZombiiU at the moment, although I do know that there are games coming out later that I'll want as well (Super Smash Bros, Zelda, Pikmin 3, Rayman Legends etc) so I'm not sure if that counts.

 

[StylinBones]

Yes, I bought a PS1 strictly for Tekken 3 and a PS2 for GTA III. Then I bought an XBox 360 and there were like a jillion great 360 titles, so I kind of lucked into that one.

 

[solemnwar]

Yes. I bought the xbox360 for the sole purpose of playing Fable II.

You read that right. FABLE II. Aw yeah.

I have others now, of course. I haven't played anything on that console for a while now though... had to tear apart the basement (where all my shit is) and I haven't had a change to put everything back together yet.

 

[The]

Last summer, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time got announced, so I got myself a PS3 in anticipation. Of course, I got other games for it to pass the time. 1.5 years worth of time. It's like a time thief. A thief in time.

 

[Baralak]

I will most likely buy a WiiU for Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate.

Hopefully, there will be other games I want by then, but I will be getting it for that game

I'm going to get a Wii U specifically for Bayonetta 2.

 

[Nazulu]

Nope. I will though if I can find another game as amazing as Half-Life 2, Portal, Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, or something as addictive as Super Smash Brothers Melee.

 

[Something Amyss]

Does the Pokémon series count as one game? Because Pokémon were pretty much THE reason for me to get a DS. But there was more than one title on the system, even discounting version X/Y splits.

 

[Palademon]

Might've gotten a Wii just for Twilight Princess, not sure.

I certainly asked for an Xbox for christmas just for Timesplitters 2.

Probably got a 3DS just for Ocarina, and had to wait, only for a awesome Zelda 3Ds to be released as a bundle.

Might get a Vita just for Perosn 4 Golden, even if I play it a few times then get bored or stuck.

I have no respect for money

 

[flying_whimsy]

Yes, a couple of times (though I usually buy used or refurbished if I'm going strictly for one game, the only exception was the wii).

Wii - Super Mario Galaxy (I played through most of the game at the demo console at my local Gamestop, to be honest; I finally broke down and got the console hoping some other good stuff would come out).

Dreamcast - Jet Grind Radio (picked it up the system a couple of years ago; also got it because the dreamcast is just cool)

Xbox 360 - The Dead or Alive series (been a huge fan of it for years; it has more than just jiggle physics)

I also did some major upgrades to a computer once just so I could play portal.

 

[charge52]

I bought the PlayStation 1 exclusively for Croc 1.
Totally
Fucking
Worth
It.

 

[Ice Car]

Not me, but I think my brother actually bought an Xbox 360 for Blazblue. That's the first game he got on it and it didn't come with the system so I assume that's why he bought it.

(Yeah, it was my brother that got me into BB)

 

[Frezzato]

I bought an Xbox just for Halo CE.
I also got a 360 just for Mass Effect, which a few people have already admitted to.

It's strange to think of it, but I didn't have games in mind when I got my PS1, PS2 and PS3, although the vast majority of games I've bought are for those three systems. Actually, scratch that. I bought my PS1 for the first Spyro. No regrets.

 

[prince off awsome]

Never done it, but I plan to for persona 4 on the vita.

 

[epidemia]

the title reminded me of something I had almost forgotten. I bought an Xbox and a copy of Halo back when it was new, since everyone seemed to agree it was the best thing since sliced bread. I had never been so underwhelmed by any console Ive owned, and Ive owned many. It looked like a hunk of junk. And that feeling applied to the game too. It had been along time since I played a halfway decent FPS (hardly any were ever released for the playstation2.) I immediately returned everything and iirc, got a full refund. I ended up working at that videogame shop for a year or two as it turns out.

I also bought a Gamecube specifically for Zelda. Luckily I ended up getting two of those, and two metroids which were ok, and an awesome resident evil, so that one actually worked out great.