I regret buying a 3DS. Ended up selling it a month ago when i could still get most of my money back
What a disappointment game catalogue wise.
This is the type of stuff I mean. I'm not picking you out but it's a recent comment that justifies my point.
1) The 3DS has been on the market for 13-14 months where the general lifetime of hardware tends to be 4-5 years. Should this truly be considered a regret?
2) Why did you buy the 3DS in the first place?
3) If there were certain games or genres you enjoyed and were expecting, why didn't you wait until they came along?
These same arguments could be made for the Vita and quite possibly for the current cycle of consoles for sale.
I understand people want things yesterday and today, and not tomorrow, but we need to be realistic here. If you're buying a console or handheld and you regret it several months down the track you should be asking yourself why it was bought it in the first place.
Well, you have to consider situations like the Saturn losing support, 360 rrod, and PS3 ylod.
I know people who bought the Saturn solely for Panzer Dragoon Saga. They would easily go on record in stating that the Saturn was an enjoyable console for them. I myself was very close to buying one so I could play Virtua Fighter and import X-Men vs Street Fighter. Do people regret the Game Boy because, despite its sizable library of software, there are only a handful of games worth playing on it?
As for the hardware issues regarding the 360 and the PS3 it seems to mostly come down to bad luck. Though I'm not so sure you can blame it on the console specifically, after all there are games tied to those systems and you can't have one without the other, rather that hatred should be focused at the manufacturers.
I regret buying GBA day one, I regret buying NDS day one, I regret buying PSP day one (jap. import), I regret buying Wii, I regret buying Xbox 360, I regret buying PS3. Somehow I regret buying any console in the last 8 years. I bought and sould PS3 about 3 times, just because of exclusives. If I buy a console I play at most 3 days in a row and then never ever touch that thing again, and I even don't know why. Probably I just can't lower my standards since I'm a PC gamer for over 15 years.
These are problems easily addressed. The solution is yourself.