Topic: I put to you this question

[Stogi]

How many great games do you need per system? And how expendable are those games you play once and never need to play again?

[Stogi]

8 games. 8 great games is all I need to come back to, to reminisce.

[Caterkiller]

I say for me roughly 20, 5 of which have to have great multiplayer. I'd say half are expendable.

[Adrock]

I play fewer and fewer games every year and typically only complete campaigns once. Other M and Uncharted 2 are the only games I've completed more than once this generation (Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition as well if you count having completed it previously on GameCube). I purchase games based on my interest in a game. I don't need games. i won't buy something just because it's available. I have to want to play it. I buy more when there are more games I want to play so it buy in spurts. As far as gaming as a past time I enjoy, a really good game every few months is enough for me. Most games are expendible to me.

[alegoicoe]

I'll say about 10 to 15 in the life span of the system. Thats about how many games i own for Wii. On PS3 and 360 combined I have 11.

[ShyGuy]

Six great games, but at least a dozen good games.

[azeke]

Usually one or two great games is enough for me.

I bought Wii for Mario Galaxy games.
I bought Xbox for Bayonetta and Mortal Kombat.
I bought Wii U for NSMB U and Rayman Legends :sad trombone:

[Sarail]

Smash Bros. and whatever Intelligent Systems and Monolith Software make for the console. That's all I need. Everything else is just icing on the cake.

[Ian Sane]

I probably need about 4 games a year and a typical console lasts 5 years so that's 20 games.  Now those are all good games but one truly great one a year will suffice.

Years ago this would matter a lot more but I have so much less free time now.  During the Wii's life I went from waiting around for new games to play to having a few titles I have never played because I haven't had time to play a game in months.  In the future when I have kids and such I can probably go with one game a year actually, but we're not there yet.

[Caterkiller]

I probably need about 4 games a year and a typical console lasts 5 years so that's 20 games.  Now those are all good games but one truly great one a year will suffice.

Years ago this would matter a lot more but I have so much less free time now.  During the Wii's life I went from waiting around for new games to play to having a few titles I have never played because I haven't had time to play a game in months.  In the future when I have kids and such I can probably go with one game a year actually, but we're not there yet.

Just wait til those kids hit 5, at that age all I wanted my mom to do with me was play Mario.

[Louieturkey]

I probably need about 4 games a year and a typical console lasts 5 years so that's 20 games.  Now those are all good games but one truly great one a year will suffice.

Years ago this would matter a lot more but I have so much less free time now.  During the Wii's life I went from waiting around for new games to play to having a few titles I have never played because I haven't had time to play a game in months.  In the future when I have kids and such I can probably go with one game a year actually, but we're not there yet.

Just wait til those kids hit 5, at that age all I wanted my mom to do with me was play Mario.

Heh, my three-year-old son wants to play Lego Batman 2 with me all the time.  I come home and he hugs me and then asks to play it. I have a feeling it'll only get worse as he gets older.  The neat thing is I already see him getting better and listening to me when I ask him to walk somewhere or pick something up.  Makes it a whole lot easier to progress through the game.

As for the number of games, I don't think it matters.  I really have no time to play games but when I do, I want to play with my wife.  So really, I need maybe 5 (10 at most) good co op games at this point.  The Lego games work with my son.  RE5, Borderlands 1 & 2 and now Dead Space 3  work for playing with my wife (though I bet she'd have fun with the LEGO games a well).

[pokepal148]

depends, if its like a snes i get at a garage sail then a dozen or so will do
a current gen console will need more then that given it will get more attention

[Spak-Spang]

I think I need 8-10 great games from various systems.

Honestly if I had 1 good to great game every 2-3 months that is re-playable an truly memorable or a classic I am happy.

Though, I would prefer to have something like 20 games in the life time of a system about 5-6 years of those kind of games.  I have learned I want less games with story and more games that are just fun to play and easy to play again and again...because story focused games usually don't have the replay I want.

By this standard, I am completely happy with the Gamecube, Wii, and Nintendo 64 lineup.  Was highly impressed with the DS lineup and I see the 3DS lineup shaping up nicely.

I think the key is having that diversity in those big hit games though.  I only need one killer platformer, one killer FPS, and one killer Puzzle game, racing game ect.