Reply 20 of 35, by Kerr Avon
Overall, I probably spend more time playing on my consoles than my PC. I have;
N64,
PS2,
Original XBox,
Gamecube,
XBox 360,
PS3,
PS4.
The N64 is my favourite, having my two favourite ever games (Perfect Dark, and Goldeneye). The original XBox (I hate the way Microsoft stopped us from saying the "XBox 1", by naming the XBox 3 the "XBox One") doesn't just have superb games (including some great versions of contemporary PC games) but also (when modded) has some superb homebrew, including fantastic versions of many emulators, some great ports of open source games (including the commercial games like Doom 1 and 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Alien vs Predator, etc), and is a fantastic media player.
I'm not too keen on the PS4 (I only bought it because the one game I really wanted at the time, Batman: Arkham Knight, wouldn't run on my (or most people's, due to it's terrible state at release) PC), as it's basically a PC but with none of the PC's advantages. Console games used to be fully tested before release (in most cases), but almost every PS4 game seems to need a day one patch (and the patches can be huge).
I work away from home a lot, and I can't drive, so I mostly go by public transport. And a console is much easier to carry than a desktop PC (I have two laptops, but neither of them are real gaming laptops, as apart from anything else, there's always the risk of them getting stolen, so I can't really afford a top end laptop, just in case). My original XBox, and PS2 both have an internal hard drive with lots of games installed, so I can take the console without having to carry games, plus I have an Everdrive 64 flash cartridge for the N64, with every game on that, so I needn't carry N64 games with the console.
I've not bothered modding the other consoles though, so I have to take the games I want to play when I take one of those consoles.