Ever buy a game console, just to play a certain game?

[Corby]

For me? It was the Xbox 360! Just to play Star trek Legacy. 

[128Kgames]

GameCube to play the Resident Evil games...

[Cebus Capucinis]

I just got an Xbox One X solely to play RDR2 🤠🤠🤠

[fiddlepaddle]

I got my first Game Boy to play Tetris.

[Steven Pendleton]

PS4 for Metal Gear Solid V. Then 2 weeks later they announced the PC version and I was not very happy that I wasted my money on the PS4.

 

Also 3DS just for Tales of the Abyss, a game I'd already played like 6 times. That turned out okay, though it's too bad that the performance and the audio are significantly worse than the PS2 version.

 

I forgot Switch just for Shin Megami Tensei V. That ended up being a pretty disappointing game in most ways, sadly.

 

Also forgot SFC just for Super Metroid. That was definitely worth it!

Edited December 27, 2022 by Steven Pendleton

[Reaperman]

I bought:

• a ps3 for gran trusimo 5, which ended up coming out ~2 years later... 😡
• a 360 for forza 4, which is about all that specific console ever did for me.
• and I'm probably the only person in the world who bought a switch specifically for Virtua Racing.

[Tanooki]

Not really, I usually like to know what's there now or in the coming months at least to care.  The closest by default would honestly be N64, if you discount the Dream Team stuff and the potential stuff for 1996, it basically was a Super Mario 64 play machine, pilotwings in a foggy distant second for some days/weeks after for most.

[The Usotsuki]

GB for Mortal Kombat II, SNES for Super Mario All-Stars.

[CapitanClassic]

I would definitely say the N64, specifically for Super Mario 64. Although, there really wasn’t more than 3 games available for the first several months. Although even then, I cannot remember buying any game until Diddy Kong Racing was released.

 

Before that, a used SNES specifically for Link to the Past and Super Mario World.

[DeathAdderSF]

Nope.

 

But Earthbound def added to my incentives list for buying a used Pooper Nintendo back in high school.

[newtmonkey]

Yes!  Just a few days ago, I bought a Wonderswan Color just to play Wild Card.

[schuwalker]

Initially, I bought a N64 for Goldeneye. Later on... I purchased Shadows of the Empire and Rogue Squadron. Being a fan of the N64 latter game, I bought a Gamecube for the sequel to Squadron which eventually led to Rebel Strike.

[Steven Pendleton]

Gamecube is worth owning just for Rogue Squadron II. Even if it was the only game on the system, it would automatically justify buying a Gamecube.

[jerseystyle]

PS4 to play The Last of Us (Remaster), Switch for Mario Odyssey, PS2 for Dragon Quest 8, N64 for Mario 64. 

[jerseystyle]

1 minute ago, Steven Pendleton said:

Gamecube is worth owning just for Rogue Squadron II. Even if it was the only game on the system, it would automatically justify buying a Gamecube.

Yeah good call. Awesome game.

[CatPix]

While I eventually acquired both, I choose the PS3 over the Xbox 360 to play the Silent Hill games that would release on it (although with Konami it was rather random what would release where).

Same thing from the previous generation, I chose the PS2 to play GTA 3 and Silent Hill 2.

In both case tho I ended up acquiring dozens of games for the platforms; I haven't bough a console so far to play only one or a few games.

Edited December 27, 2022 by CatPix

[bomberpunk]

The only reason I own an N64 is for Conker's Bad Fur Day (multiplayer Beach & Heist). I need to get an original Xbox for my Spy VS Spy game.

[+Cafeman]

I bought PS4 specifically to play Spider-man.  Every other console, there were multiple games I knew I wanted but nothing specific. 

[agb]

PS one to play original Asteroids.

[NeonSpaceBeagle]

Last fall Xbox 360 to play Forza horizon 1 and 2 and then the Xbox series x for Forza horizon 3 4 and 5.

 

Ugh and the 3ds for MK7

[Max_Chatsworth]

I guess I did in spirit.   I asked for and got the ColecoVision for Christmas the first year it was out and I was in 6th Grade(that would have been 82 at Christmas time).    I asked for it specifically because I wanted to play Venture.  Yes, I know it is a pretty weak game, but my brother and I loved it in the arcade.  Hell, not even the arcade, I don't think I ever saw it in a proper arcade or even pool hall slowly turning arcade. It was always in something like a convenience store. Or grocery store foyer.  The really funny part is the ONE place we played it the most and it was there for at least a year I think was one of those big Venture discount stores near my grandma's house in Mission, KS.  For fellow Americans on here, you may remember those stores.  They always just had a plain black and white diagonally striped sign.  The name of the store had nothing to do with the fact that they had a Venture game.  We'd walk miles ever Christmas break when we'd spend part of it at our grandmother's house to play that game almost every day.  It was utterly simplistic, but one of if not THE first video game that we saw that was a like "Whoa!  A dungeons and dragons type game!!!"  

 

So yeah...I wanted the ColecoVision so badly just to play this game mostly. Also it had a Donkey Kong where the god damn screen was oriented correctly like the real game, not that 2600 abomination! Ended up with quite a few cool titles.  

 

[Tuxon86]

19 hours ago, Cebus Capucinis said:

I just got an Xbox One X solely to play RDR2 🤠🤠🤠

Still pleased with your purchase?

[Cebus Capucinis]

7 minutes ago, Tuxon86 said:

Still pleased with your purchase?

Butt of corpse!

[Max_Chatsworth]

4 minutes ago, Cebus Capucinis said:

Butt of corpse!

Is that....is that a necrophilia reference?!?!

[Cebus Capucinis]

13 minutes ago, Max_Chatsworth said:

Is that....is that a necrophilia reference?!?!

It's a roasted pork butt joke, you sick bastard!