Poll of the Day > What would be the order of most time youve spent on each console

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PC>SNES>GBA>GC>GB/GBC>DS>N64>3DS>NES>PS2>Wii>WiiU>All others

Though its hard to say from GBA to NES

I just know i have put more time into PC by a long way, and SNES is the most played console.
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SNES and PS2 are probably tied for the most time.
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F if I know. If I had to guess...

PC
SNES
PS2
PS1
360
NES
64
PS3
GC
Genesis
Wii
PS4
Etc.
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idk but probably something like

3ds
pc
snes
gamecube
psp
wii
etc
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Gameboy color
ps2
Xbox 360
xbox one
ps3
pc
n64
ps1
snes
ps4
nes
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Honestly 360 would easily be first. I was playing that in my most carefree years. Living without my parents or a live-in girlfriend, and only working. I would play for hours and hours and hours for about four years straight.

The only one that could compete would be snes just from longevity

nevermind
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Tough to say, but...

PC > PS2 > NES > SNES > Gamecube > PS3 > Wii > Wii U > N64 > Genesis > Dreamcast > Atari 7800 > others

I have played a lot of PS1 games, but on PS2 and PS3's, so I put that time for that on those. Same with Atari 2600 on the Atari 7800.

Honestly though everything except the top 4 are just a guess.
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I haven't played many different consoles, so

Xbox 360 > Xbox One >>>> PS2 > PC > NES > Atari 2600 > PS3
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I think PC would probably be the most. I don't play very many PC games, but pretty much all of the ones I've played are games you can sink a huge amount of time into, like Minecraft, Rollercoaster Tycoon and The Sims.

The least is definitely 3DS or DS.

I have no idea what would go in between.

PS2 > Vita > GC > PSP > PC > 3DS > GBA > PS1 > DS > N64
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Pc PS3 then ???

Honestly I forgot about pc but my runescape play time was just about a full years worth plus the hours upon hours I've spent on Diablo 2 pvping. Then PS3 with online gave it much more playability with being to play against others rather than the older generations just replaying the story over and over again. After those two I'm not sure probably either n64 or PS4.
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Probably the newer consoles since games are 10x longer than they used to be + online play

Wii/Wii U
3DS
Xbox360/Dreamcast
Mega Drive/SNES
Master System
NES/N64
PSX/Other Nintendo Handhelds
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Obligatory "PC is not a console" comment.

Semi-obligatory "Handhelds shouldn't count as handhelds because that's always been bullshit" comment.



Okay, now that's out of the way... I have no idea. It's kind of difficult to quantify 34 years of gaming in any realistically accurate sort of way.

I can say that, over the last decade or so, the original Xbox slowly edged out the PS2 as my primary console of choice, and that the 360 pretty much replaced both of them entirely, racking up a hell of a lot of playtime over the last 5 or so.

Once the PS4 entered the picture, it muscled a lot of playtime away from the 360, though I still use the 360 for watching YouTube and occasionally playing any number of games.

Prior to that... my gaming history is basically ColecoVision/Atari 2600->NES->SNES->PS1->PS2->360->PS4, but it's hard to say which ones got played more. When I was younger games weren't as long, but I had way more free time to play them, whereas now, I have to budget time more effectively but I may still sink 40+ hours per run into a game like Mass Effect. I might be able to say that I played a game like Ninja Gaiden or Zelda II to completion MORE than I have Mass Effect, but those games also didn't take as long as ME does. So I have a real hard time parsing out overall playtime as a whole.

Just in terms of chronological time, though, I probably spent something like 5 years only owning a ColecoVision (that could also play Atari 2600 games), then I had my NES for about 4 years before I mostly switched to the SNES and never looked back. I traded in my SNES after about 4 years to get my PS1, and I had that for about 5 years before getting my PS2.

My PS2 theoretically lasted the longest, since I had that for nearly 11 years before I sort of drifted over to the 360 for good - but the PS2 also shared time with my original Xbox for most of its lifespan (I got the Xbox about 3 years after the PS2), and like I already mentioned, towards the end I was definitely spending more time on the Xbox than the PS2 (the last major PS2 games I remember getting excited for were all from 2006-7 or so).

I got my 360 in 2012, and I pretty much played nothing but 360 games from then until I got my PS4 about 2 years ago. Since then I've jumped back and forth between the two relatively evenly, though I'm slowly starting to drift more towards the PS4 overall these days.

I've always been a late adopter for consoles in general. The PS2 and PS4 are really the only exceptions, and even with those, I didn't get them until a year or so after release.


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