How modern do you go?

[CRTGAMER]

I have gone as far as the Wii, PS3 and 360. Actually the kids have the PS3 and 360, but I have been buying used must have games for the consoles while on the cheap. Eventually will obtain PS3 slot slim and newer 360 consoles for the reliability.

Have spares of most of the consoles, just picked up a third vertical Wii for Netflix vacation trips. First order of business was to download all the Game Demos, Internet Browser, Zelda Save Patch, YouTube Player and of course Netflix. Of note a 2gb SD Card enough to hold all the game demos which eventually will not be available. I have bought a few download Wii games thru Club Nintendo redemption, frustrating that unlike game discs the downloads are not available on all my Wii consoles. Heck, even the demos are locked to each console!

For now see no reason to buy the newest consoles with concerns that even some of the disc games require online authentication. Last Guardian for the PS4 has been teasing me though!

[retrosportsgamer]

I go up to PS4 (and have a WiiU), BUT I've put a good bit of thought into this being the last "current" generation for me for a while. I have no interest in VR. I'll follow the NX news but no intent to purchase (the WiiU was the first console I ever bought on launch day).

Have plenty to play in this generation (stuff is cheap too outside WiiU) and have been refining my retro collection and playing that stuff as well.

[Sarge]

I go all the way to current stuff. There are still games released that appeal to my tastes, even if there are less of them than before. Still, even some of the modern AAA stuff appeals at times, so I'm not a retro-only sort of person.

As Bone said, though, I've got a cutoff at the other end. I typically don't play stuff older than NES. Not that I hate any of it, but most of those games are much simpler than I prefer to play. I certainly enjoyed a few of them growing up, but I need a wee bit more than score-chasing to really feel like I'm "accomplishing" anything.

I do, however, own an Atari 2600, C64, and Colecovision, and I need to reobtain an Intellivision.

[J T]

My most modern consoles are the PS2 and Gamecube, but I transitioned to exclusively using PC for modern games sometime around 2010. This was largely a money decision, as well as a space-saving decision (digital games). I don't have any hard line for how modern I will go, but if I had to pick a generational style I most enjoy, it would be the 16-bit era. I haven't recently felt much of an urge to play modern games, with a few exceptions (I am looking forward to a PC upgrade so I can play No Man's Sky, for instance). I was buying lots of modern games last gen, but really tapered off in the past 2 years. I'm having a good time in the past and don't feel that same urge to be "caught up" on the latest that I used to feel.

[TEKTORO]

I'm liking up to the PS4 right now and can't see me growing out of games or Sony for that matter, so I'm likely to keep going the same route. Sony library is like gold to me so as long as they keep the classics while innovating, I'm most likely gonna stick with them and their formats. Xbox 360 was a fun era and did a lot right then but their catalog just doesn't go back far enough for me to care what they have going forward, kinda was like a fad tbh. They nailed FPS and some other things but not enough so much so that I don't follow anything their doing or have planned.

[ExedExes]

This is my style plus a little more. Actually, it's more like J T. 2nd-6th gen on consoles and handhelds, excluding the DS. Modern stuff goes to PC (GOG/eBay/thrift store finds).

[noiseredux]

I love old 2600, C64 and DOS games.

I also love games that came out this year.

[samsonlonghair]

This is my style plus a little more. Actually, it's more like J T. 2nd-6th gen on consoles and handhelds, excluding the DS. Modern stuff goes to PC (GOG/eBay/thrift store finds).

It was only a matter of time before someone posted this XKDC. Thank you. I always get a kick out of this one. Also, I still haven't played portal yet.