Poll: If you had to choose just one console for the rest of your life...
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The playstation ones are because it's backwards compatible, so long as you have the right model, hence it's PS1, 2, and 3 rolled into one.TheKasp said:
I'd go with a fully BC PS3, largest possible games library.
Hmm. That sucks. Must be something that varies by country though, because I've quite literally never seen a gamecube game for sale around here about about £12 (maybe $16-20 or so depending on exchange rate.)urprobablyright said:You speak wisely, but alas I made a few bad mistakes that prevented me from attaining that backwards-compatible status. Firstly, my gamecube got damaged and unusable about three years before the Wii came out and, in exasperation, I got rid of all my gamecube gamesCrystalShadow said:Talk about stupid, i could get sooo much money for Tales of Symphonia if i got tired of it today.
Got a Wii, but didn't have my GCN games anymore and, like I just said, they would have cost an arm and a leg if I wanted the same titles back. (on those ones I listed earlier in this thread, I'd say the total cost of those six or so titles might have been a lot more than six or so standard contemporary Wii games. I sold the Wii after about 2 years because I hated Tales of Symphonia 2. Turned the Wii in for half the price of a PS3, which i sold about 9 months later.
I got metroid prime 1 for about £5, and Zelda for £8... Tales of Symphonia I unfortunately haven't seen around, but the other titles you've mentioned I have seen, and they didn't cost much either.
Actually, there still seems to be a serious glut of gamecube games right now here...
I can't say the same for N64 games though. They reached rock-bottom about 2 years ago, but now they're going back up in price. (and there are a lot less shops selling them.)
Also, a shop nearby had a copy of Secret of Mana (for SNES) and wanted £120 for it... Considering new it probably cost £40 or less, that's pretty scary. XD
Honestly though, the second-hand market is pretty much pot-luck as to how much things cost.
Definetly my PS3. I own both it and a 360, but I have hardly touched the Xbox since I got the PS3.
Ah. Australia. That makes sense. I remember paying that much or more for games there. Granted for a really long time the exchange rate was £2.5 to $1 or worse, so 'cheap' wouldn't have been the same then than it is now. (At that exhange rate, the standard price of £35-40 for new games equals about $90-100. - Of course, at current eschange rates it's under $60... So cheap in international terms is a bit arbitrary. )urprobablyright said:Well in Australia the rare GCN games cost $50, $80, $100 or more... Tales might cost a small fortune even in your cheap heavenCrystalShadow said:
If games cost that little here I'd buy them. Or I could just go back to Beijing and buy everything for 50c a pop
Anyway, yeah... Rare games are expensive. As a general rule if you need to resort to finding a copy online, it'll cost a lot.
But I agree, from what I remember living there that it can be difficult to get games cheaply in Australia.
(Notwithstanding all of the cheap N64 games I got from cash converters. But then, I did have the added benefit of being able to do so in Sydney and Brisbane (And Canberra come to think of it. - I travelled a lot back then. Oh. Dubbo too... >_<). I must of gone past 30 or 40 second hand shops to find the more obscure stuff I own. - Even then, Conker's bad Fur day was almost impossible to get.
Gamecube games were another issue when I lived in Australia, because the Wii hadn't been released yet, which makes for a different situation.)
Anyway, are gamecube games particularly hard to get there? (For instance, if there's cheap second-hand stuff around, what does it tend to be?)
Eh. Like I said it's often just luck finding things cheaply. (And big cities - the more places you can check, the more likely it is you'll find what you're looking for without it costing a fortune. But... Some things are nevertheless incredibly rare.)
This isn't a hard decision, I'm going for Xbox 360. Just to be clear yes I own and love playing games on my Gamecube and SNES but to me the Xbox 360 had alot more offer to me.
Not to mention all the downloadable content and retro games.cnaltman62 said:
For me it would either be this or those franken-consoles that can play all games from the N64 backwards like the Retron3 that can do NES, SNES and Genesis games. I know there's another that has a few other systems jsmmed into it.
