How many of yall are 40 and up gaming

[PS5 Pro]

Interesting poll, thought everyone left console gaming for greener pastures

Well with the $80 price tags and so many games releasing each week?
Who can even afford to be a gamer there days with no blockbusters to help
If only where was a cheaper way to play MORE GAMES

I guess you nigggaz just have 9-5's and then after work you come home to a nice home cooked meal
Might watch some TV with the fam.. Then its bedtime. Wifey like "what up, how about some hanky panky" and you're like...

Spoiler

Nah I'm busy playing Death Stranding 2

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I guess you nigggaz just have 9-5's and then after work you come home to a nice home cooked meal
Might watch some TV with the fam.. Then its bedtime. Wifey like "what up, how about some hanky panky" and you're like...

And the other 10 play xbox

 

[PS5 Pro]

And the other 10 play xbox

On Xbox we play games like spin the bottle.
Then I be like "You try to concentrate on dodging in Expedition 33 while I hit that"

Now my girl be like "Sohh... when we gonna play some more Expedition "

Spoiler

Xbox Shuffle Dem guts

 

[Address_Unknown]

Spoiler: Pedantic nikka babble

Made 40 this year.
I'm an odd man, doing odd things into the late hours so my gaming time can run from 6Pm - 3 am if I maximize all my 'free' time, which I often do for games that got me hooked [Steamworld Dig 1 an 2, Coral Island, Trials of Mana, Sleeper Citizen] or games that got my hyped [Dead Space Remake, Control, Warhammer Darktide, No I'm not Human, Buckshot roulette, Persona 3 Portable, Dredge] and I just plug away.

No kids, No wife, but been in situations in which I basically acquired both and had to move like an acting husband/dad, but after 12 am, Me and my Insomnia always kept a game or two rolling so to say "I don't have time" or "don't as much as I used to" ain't really a thing that happens to me.
Also, I play almost anything on everything. Xbox Series X/S my main console but I got PS5 for the exclusives, Switch for the same reasons even though I play that less and less after I stopped binging Animal Crossing.

Also got all the older consoles still in reach. Dreamcast, Ps1,2,3,4, Xbox,360,One, Psp/Vita Nintendo DS. Got massive backlogs on Steam, GOG and with Gamepass being a corner stone of my gaming setup, It's safe to say that I will more than likely DIE with games unplayed/unfinished and I'm honestly comforted by that 'cause I've never fallen into the "I don't play like I used to" shyt, like at all.
Recently wanted to missle dropkick my bro off balcony of the apartment I helped him move into recently when he claimed that I "stopped playing" all the cool shyt I did back in the day since he learned about Gitaroo man, Star Ocean 2, Tactics Ogre, Brave Fencer Musashi in favour of GTA and Call of duty 'cause he has this running joke that I've 'devolved' from playing dope shyt and can't play/beat Obscur on the hardest difficulty 'cause I ain't got the chops anymore.
But really, the fact that games are so fukkin' plentiful now compared to the early days of the NES up until the Ps2 in which I used to devour (pause) damn near any game I had and was left weeks, months without something new, that I just wanna play any and everything that interests me to an obsessive level.

Like this shyt. This is quite possibly one of the most boring games to look at and at times play but I honestly ENJOYED every moment of it because it interests me and I found it fun. And I do that shyt while maintaining a healthy (enough) social/work life hooked up to a functionally erratic sleep schedule.
Also, if I ever get around to having kids one day, I plan on passing off all my old/cherished rpgs/games/consoles to 'em in the hopes that they too would come to appreciate and understand what made their old man a gamer well into his last years and why that love never wavered. Like I wanna sit and geek the fukk out about how crazy Mario Rpg, Parappa the Rapper and Morrowind was decades after they were released on some legacy shyt and why they held such special places in my heart, type shyt. Might not happen and even if it don't, I'm good just as long as I can still play/enjoy games to some comfortable degree until I'm dead.

 

[PS5 Pro]

Spoiler: Pedantic nikka babble

Made 40 this year.
I'm an odd man, doing odd things into the late hours so my gaming time can run from 6Pm - 3 am if I maximize all my 'free' time, which I often do for games that got me hooked [Steamworld Dig 1 an 2, Coral Island, Trials of Mana, Sleeper Citizen] or games that got my hyped [Dead Space Remake, Control, Warhammer Darktide, No I'm not Human, Buckshot roulette, Persona 3 Portable, Dredge] and I just plug away.

No kids, No wife, but been in situations in which I basically acquired both and had to move like an acting husband/dad, but after 12 am, Me and my Insomnia always kept a game or two rolling so to say "I don't have time" or "don't as much as I used to" ain't really a thing that happens to me.
Also, I play almost anything on everything. Xbox Series X/S my main console but I got PS5 for the exclusives, Switch for the same reasons even though I play that less and less after I stopped binging Animal Crossing.

Also got all the older consoles still in reach. Dreamcast, Ps1,2,3,4, Xbox,360,One, Psp/Vita Nintendo DS. Got massive backlogs on Steam, GOG and with Gamepass being a corner stone of my gaming setup, It's safe to say that I will more than likely DIE with games unplayed/unfinished and I'm honestly comforted by that 'cause I've never fallen into the "I don't play like I used to" shyt, like at all.
Recently wanted to missle dropkick my bro off balcony of the apartment I helped him move into recently when he claimed that I "stopped playing" all the cool shyt I did back in the day since he learned about Gitaroo man, Star Ocean 2, Tactics Ogre, Brave Fencer Musashi in favour of GTA and Call of duty 'cause he has this running joke that I've 'devolved' from playing dope shyt and can't play/beat Obscur on the hardest difficulty 'cause I ain't got the chops anymore.
But really, the fact that games are so fukkin' plentiful now compared to the early days of the NES up until the Ps2 in which I used to devour (pause) damn near any game I had and was left weeks, months without something new, that I just wanna play any and everything that interests me to an obsessive level.

Like this shyt. This is quite possibly one of the most boring games to look at and at times play but I honestly ENJOYED every moment of it because it interests me and I found it fun. And I do that shyt while maintaining a healthy (enough) social/work life hooked up to a functionally erratic sleep schedule.
Also, if I ever get around to having kids one day, I plan on passing off all my old/cherished rpgs/games/consoles to 'em in the hopes that they too would come to appreciate and understand what made their old man a gamer well into his last years and why that love never wavered. Like I wanna sit and geek the fukk out about how crazy Mario Rpg, Parappa the Rapper and Morrowind was decades after they were released on some legacy shyt and why they held such special places in my heart, type shyt. Might not happen and even if it don't, I'm good just as long as I can still play/enjoy games to some comfortable degree until I'm dead.

Well let me give you a quick insight on the kids angle.

Like everyone else, they want to play the new shyt. But the new shyt isn't what we play
They play Fortnite.. but they love Minecraft and Roblox, they enjoy games we ignore like a SpongeBob game
The NES style games that took dedication to learn all the little mechanics just so you could complete sections in games.. They are dedicated still to stuff like that. And thru my kids I learned that anyone can recapture their old levels of concentration if you are bugged enough to play.

My son is 6, beat CupHead on expert by himself when he was 3. But he would ask me to play with him daily and I'd give him at least 20mins of my time for that if not hours. Eventually I was as good as he was and that carried over to most games now. I'm getting back to being a beast at gaming

And they will enjoy testing out all your old favorites. Just don't expect them to love them as much as you did. There's likely a newer improved version out today but they will still try. And they will like some of them. They are comparable to some of the mobile/tablet games they be playing so.
I don't have the old retro setups tho, so maybe they'd feel different if they could play it the same way?
I think I owe it to them to have an NES with a CRT

 

[Address_Unknown]

Well let me give you a quick insight on the kids angle.

Like everyone else, they want to play the new shyt. But the new shyt isn't what we play
They play Fortnite.. but they love Minecraft and Roblox, they enjoy games we ignore like a SpongeBob game
The NES style games that took dedication to learn all the little mechanics just so you could complete sections in games.. They are dedicated still to stuff like that. And thru my kids I learned that anyone can recapture their old levels of concentration if you are bugged enough to play.

My son is 6, beat CupHead on expert by himself when he was 3. But he would ask me to play with him daily and I'd give him at least 20mins of my time for that if not hours. Eventually I was as good as he was and that carried over to most games now. I'm getting back to being a beast at gaming

And they will enjoy testing out all your old favorites. Just don't expect them to love them as much as you did. There's likely a newer improved version out today but they will still try. And they will like some of them. They are comparable to some of the mobile/tablet games they be playing so.
I don't have the old retro setups tho, so maybe they'd feel different if they could play it the same way?
I think I owe it to them to have an NES with a CRT ​

That's the main thing, breh. They live and breathe with you. The instances I had to show these kids anything other than Fortnite/Roblox was met with enough indifference for me to just go "Aight, here you go, plug your own shyt in" and leave it at that, not because I was frustrated or anything like that, but I wasn't around long enough or consistently for them to find any sort of curiosity with what I was playing, pass wanting to 'muck about' in it 'cause it was a game connected to a console they could press buttons on.
That's why I broke out the Wii and had shyt like Mario Strikers, Mario Kart so they could pick up and play/enjoy but I wasn't in a position to mold them into exploring anything other than what they wanted, and whenever I was over, I was on the clock. So it never stuck.
The women I was with? Different story. Had chicks that garnered an appreciation from gaming, Cuphead, Dredge, I'm not a human and Papers please. shyt in which we could sit down and talk about the shyt on screen and deduce what choices to make.
The closest I got to anything formative was beat em ups for obvious reasons, so I had alot of those on deck. But you right on having them like them as much as I did since their likes aren't rooted in mine from my era compared to what they know now though.​

 

[summwunn]

... my first console was Atari 2600 in 84 . ..

....damn . .. . i just realized it was 1981 when i got that shyt for Christmas . . .. I got ColecoVision in 84 . .

 

[Tribaligenesis]

38 years old, the only games I'll actually play nowadays are mainly story based. Give me a good story and I'll play it

 

[Serious]

@breakfuss

 

[Jim Cornette]

Spoiler: Pedantic nikka babble

Made 40 this year.
I'm an odd man, doing odd things into the late hours so my gaming time can run from 6Pm - 3 am if I maximize all my 'free' time, which I often do for games that got me hooked [Steamworld Dig 1 an 2, Coral Island, Trials of Mana, Sleeper Citizen] or games that got my hyped [Dead Space Remake, Control, Warhammer Darktide, No I'm not Human, Buckshot roulette, Persona 3 Portable, Dredge] and I just plug away.

No kids, No wife, but been in situations in which I basically acquired both and had to move like an acting husband/dad, but after 12 am, Me and my Insomnia always kept a game or two rolling so to say "I don't have time" or "don't as much as I used to" ain't really a thing that happens to me.
Also, I play almost anything on everything. Xbox Series X/S my main console but I got PS5 for the exclusives, Switch for the same reasons even though I play that less and less after I stopped binging Animal Crossing.

Also got all the older consoles still in reach. Dreamcast, Ps1,2,3,4, Xbox,360,One, Psp/Vita Nintendo DS. Got massive backlogs on Steam, GOG and with Gamepass being a corner stone of my gaming setup, It's safe to say that I will more than likely DIE with games unplayed/unfinished and I'm honestly comforted by that 'cause I've never fallen into the "I don't play like I used to" shyt, like at all.
Recently wanted to missle dropkick my bro off balcony of the apartment I helped him move into recently when he claimed that I "stopped playing" all the cool shyt I did back in the day since he learned about Gitaroo man, Star Ocean 2, Tactics Ogre, Brave Fencer Musashi in favour of GTA and Call of duty 'cause he has this running joke that I've 'devolved' from playing dope shyt and can't play/beat Obscur on the hardest difficulty 'cause I ain't got the chops anymore.
But really, the fact that games are so fukkin' plentiful now compared to the early days of the NES up until the Ps2 in which I used to devour (pause) damn near any game I had and was left weeks, months without something new, that I just wanna play any and everything that interests me to an obsessive level.

Like this shyt. This is quite possibly one of the most boring games to look at and at times play but I honestly ENJOYED every moment of it because it interests me and I found it fun. And I do that shyt while maintaining a healthy (enough) social/work life hooked up to a functionally erratic sleep schedule.
Also, if I ever get around to having kids one day, I plan on passing off all my old/cherished rpgs/games/consoles to 'em in the hopes that they too would come to appreciate and understand what made their old man a gamer well into his last years and why that love never wavered. Like I wanna sit and geek the fukk out about how crazy Mario Rpg, Parappa the Rapper and Morrowind was decades after they were released on some legacy shyt and why they held such special places in my heart, type shyt. Might not happen and even if it don't, I'm good just as long as I can still play/enjoy games to some comfortable degree until I'm dead.

Wtf is wrong with you, have you got BPD?!

 

[richaveli83]

Over 40 and "primarily" PS5. Primarily is in quotation because I barely even play it. It's essentially a blue-ray player. The last time I played a game was back in April.

 

[Brolic]

So most of the brehs making the PlayStation vs Xbox threads are 38+ years old ?

 

[Jim Cornette]

Got a 2yo and a 1 month old....

Haven't gamed in about 3 months now

All I can see myself getting to is about 30 mins here and there of MLB the show on my switch...
Think imma be strictly handhelds from here on out. Thinking bout getting a ps portal and calling it a day

Edit: 35yo

 

[daemonova]

Interesting poll, thought everyone left console gaming for greener pastures

Need money for that

 

[Belize King]

39 and copped a Switch 2. I play Mario Jamboree with the Wife. Mario Kart World whenever I get some alone time.

I might get 4-6hours a week. My Wife gets 10+ hours a week.

I miss gaming. The 2-4 hour type gaming. The last time I truly gamed was 2018 and I was ripping through XCOM runs.

I have a few games since then with 30-50 hours in them. It would take me a year to get there though. I think I’m done as a true gamer. I’m switching to Texas Holdem and golf as my hobbies.