What systems do you regret buying/not buying?

I've never had a non-mainstream console or computer really, I've owned (in order of my buying them*):

ZX Spectrum (48K, 128K, +2)
Atari ST (STFM/STe)
PC (various, from 1996 to present day)
N64
original XBox
PS2
Gamecube
XBox 360
PS3

and also a PSP and an android tablet (Galaxy Tab 2, I think, it's not here for me to confirm). I don't really regret buying any of them, but I can't stand playing touch screen games, no matter how often I've tried, but I use the tablet for reading ebooks/comics, and for 'net access, so the fact that I can't play games on it is a nuisance but not enough to make me regret buying it (it's brilliant as an ebook!). I didn't like most PSP games either, but I got it modded and used it for emulators (ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and occasionally Amstrad CPC, mainly) plus as an ebook reader (when it broke, I bought the tablet, which made a much better ebook reader).

I do regret never owning an Amiga, though. I went down the Atari ST route as most of my friends had one, so I bought an STFM. Later on, when Atari released the "Amiga beating" (yeah right!) STe, I bought one, and though it's gaming output was largely very disappointing (there were very few STe only games released, most were just STFM games with no additions at all for the STe, and most of the few games that did use the STe's extras were released when the ST was almost commercially dead), so I should have bought an Amiga instead of the STe, but it's not a huge regret, as the ST scene was great and I enjoyed those gaming years.

I would have liked to have had a C64 as well as a Spectrum, but if I could go back, I wouldn't change the Spectrum for a C64 or any other contemporary machine. The Spectrum had, to me, the best overall games library of any 8-bit computer, and I loved the magazines (Crash, Your Spectrum, Your Sinclair, etc) and most of my friends were Spectrum fanatics too. And when the 128K came out, it did produce a small but often great selection of 128K games, unlike the under-used Atari STe.

So overall I've been lucky in the machines I've chosen. They've all had great games, and from the N64 onwards I still have and use them all (plus the PC, though my current machine is much more powerful than my 1996 one, of course), and I still emulate the Spectrum and Atari ST. I'll no doubt get an XBox One or a PS4 when they have games that attract me, but for now I'm content with what I've got.

How about you, do you regret owning or not owning any machines?






* I didn't buy the 48K ZX Spectrum or the 128K Spectrum, they were bought for me by my wonderful grandmother (I miss you).

 

PC Engine, other than that no regrets. I have everything I want.

 

I regret buying a Dreamcast. Bought it new from a shady vendor in a magazine ad. Didn't have any internet back then. It broke within 4 weeks, send it back to the vendor, he send it to Sega, Sega wanted about 70 bucks to fix it. I didn't want to pay that much, so it came back still broken, I sold it for parts.
Lessons learned: Don't buy anything from magazine ads. Don't buy anything from Sega. If something breaks, fix it yourself. I love Chu Chu Rocket.

 

I can't tell if that last post is trolling or not.

 

I regret not buying a Dreamcast... I will, and hopefully soon, but it's crazy expensive now here in Argentina, and since we can't import anything without special permit, my only option is to pay whatever sellers ask (currently, cheapest I found is approx USD 240, used, in good shape).

I'd love to buy other consoles, but that's the one I really regret not buying earlier.

 

I wish I had kept all my NES/SNES and Master system carts, If I had sold them I'd have made a nice amount of cash. Probably subject for another thread though.

 

i regret not buying any atari st line of computers and some older computers and consoles when they were originally released, but that is what i love about collecting, i am correcting all those wrongs i did not purchasing various systems back in the day and getting them all now.

i cant really think of any regrets. maybe back in the day when systems were originally released, i regretted those purchases then, but now its great to be able to own all the classics!

i love the classic computers and consoles.

 

:witless:
not sure if it counts, but the worst system i bought was a vita. (PCH-1003)
good thing it wasn't at retail new price, system had been fired up and looked at by previous owner (no profiles created) and whizzed in a corner since.
i was completely off my tits getting it at a severely reduced cost, HID is made for woodpecker beaks, not man-hands and....nvm!
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the only thing it remains in storage for is to be a ps3 controller (in place of the six-axis pad) when i can crack it. :smile-new:
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had many different machines i do regret buying, but none as much as the vita!

 

Maybe my first batch of Genesis systems. I still don't know what's exactly wrong with one of them despite a recapping, I don't have video. But at least it was a learning experience.

Definitely not my Sega Dreamcasts, having a lot of fun with these RDC releases. And it's the first system I successfully padhacked for, using a Mad Catz 6 Button controller.

 

Back in the 1990's and early 2000's I would have liked to get into computers more for all the PC gaming plus the amazing stuff, including eBay and e-commerce.

 

I regret getting the original GBA. The screen was so hard to see I played it only a few times. Ofcourse the game I got with it was Castlevania CotM. But it was so hard to see that it was nearly a complete waste. It wasn't until years later that I got a GBA SP that I actually got into GBA games.

 

I regret getting a PSP 1000, just because the 2000 and 3000 allow for video out and have better drives. Though getting a Memory Stick adapter was one of the best decisions I ever made.

My only regret is that I once saw a boxed Magnavox Odyssey at an antique shop. I think it was $25.

 

I bought a 360 that quickly ended up in my closet... twice.

Originally, it was somewhat early in the generation, and I was pretty let down by how Perfect Dark Zero turned out (pretty much the reason I bought the console in the first place). After trying a few other games, and buying Tony Hawk's American Wasteland for like... the fifth time, I sold the whole lot to some guy without losing much profit.

Years later, I bought a second 360, which I still have. Funnily enough, the HD port of the original Perfect Dark was part of the reason I bought it again, as well as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD (normally I don't care about HD "remasters," but the notion of Perfect Dark running at 60 FPS seemed like a great thing). This console got much more use than the first one, and I enjoyed playing Resident Evil 5 and 6 via system link with my brother. After that, though... I pretty much packed it away in the closet and went back to PS2.

One thing I noticed in the years between each 360 purchase, though, was that the dashboard went to hell-in-a-hand-basket since the original incarnation.

 

Yeah, I sometimes get nostalgic for the old Blades interface, because it wasn't 40% ads.

 

Only one that comes to mind for me is the PS Vita, mostly because of the fuck-off expensive proprietary memory it required to do anything and me realizing it has very little to offer in comparison to the 3DS. Admittedly, it was an EXTREMELY whim-based purchase, so as quickly as I bought it, so swiftly I realized my mistake, so I returned that shit in a span of under 24 hours of purchasing it.

Will probably want one when actual PS Vita homebrew/emulators become a reality, however (as opposed to most everything being done through PSP mode at the moment). God, I bet that N64 emulation will be tits ​on a Vita.

 

Regret on the purchase of psvita first gen and the wiiU. *Don't bash me please*

 

A Nomad when they were $89 new and a Dreamcast when they were $50 new (if I remember right) to keep as factory sealed.

 

Quick question, which current system is more dead in the water, the Vita or the WiiU?

I'm saying Vita.

 

Absolutely the Vita, the Wii U has Smash Bros. and Zelda coming some time in the future while the Vita has jack and shit, and Jack left town.

 

I think the Vita is because there isn't anything stand out unique to the platform. The Wii U atleast has Mario Kart 8, the new Legend of Zelda, and more Nintendo franchise titles coming. The Vita seems like it will get alot of PS3 ports and things.