Topic: How many video game systems did you purchase because of Castlevania?

[Castlevania Crypt]

How many video game systems did you buy specifically because of a Castlevania game? This could also count as systems you may have been planning on buying eventually, but purchased much sooner due to a Castlevania game. Here is what I bought because of Castlevania:

Game Boy Advance - I know I would have bought this system anyway because of the Mario games, but once I saw Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance I immediately bought the GBA SP, and it remains one of my favorite systems.

Game Boy Player for Gamecube - I bought this GBA Player specifically to play the GBA Castlevania titles on TV, however I probably would have gotten this eventually.

Nintendo DS - I bought it right when Dawn of Sorrow came out. I still have the same original DS and it works great. It is a little bit larger than what they have out now. I know I would have eventually gotten a DS, but Castlevania is why I bought it so fast. This is also one of my favorite systems.

PlayStation 3 - I bought the PS3 and Lords of Shadow together when LOS was released. I was also happy that it came with a free download of SOTN for the PS3. Even though I have 2 copies of SOTN on PlayStation, I still had to beat it on PS2.

PSP - Bought this system because of Dracula X Chronicles, and I think the PSP is the worst system I ever purchased. I just don't like any of the titles they released for it. After I bought a PSP every time I looked at the games I saw nothing I was interested in. I am more of a retro gamer and am not interested in newer series like Call of Duty, or whatever else PSP was pushing. I was planning on getting Silent Hill: Origins, and the 2 Grand Theft Auto games they made for PSP (Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories) but luckily for me they ported those games to PS2.

I can tell you that from my experience with PSP there is no way I am buying a Vita, unless they make some really, really awesome, exclusive games for Castlevania, Silent Hill, and Resident Evil. I already have a 3DS and bought it because of Mario Kart 7. This was the first time that Castlevania was not released before Mario Kart on a Nintendo handheld.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Sorry bub. I love Castlevania, but not THAT much. The only system I ever bought exclusively for ONE GAME was my (long since RRoD'd) Xbox 360 Elite way back when Halo 3 was a brand new thing.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

PSP for "The Dracula X Chronicles", though a few other titles came out that made the purchase easier.
The first PSP I got was a model 1000 (Phat) and it was off of a buddy so it was a lot cheaper (and with many many accessories).  I promptly had it modded.
When the PSP Slim came out, however, I sold my PSPPhat to my sister and bought the Slim.... which I promptly had modded as well.

The GBA was an odd one: I really got it for F-Zero but CotM was a launch title so it was an easy sway.  Also, I didn't have a Gameboy at all so it was a good purchase (though I did have a Super Gameboy peripheral for my SNES, which I used for Metroid II and the GB CV's).

[Ratty]

DS and GB Player for Gamecube.
I think I'm going to give the DS to my significant other when I finish playing all of the DSvanias though. The only other games I've gotten for it are
Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ*, Chrono Trigger, Solatorobo: Red the Hunter and FF3. Yeah I know, shameful to have not already played them all but I've only seriously been into gaming 3 or 4 years, and been extremely busy in that same period of time. Like to spread them out and savor them.

*Which is as awesome as it sounds.

[Castlevania Crypt]

Sorry bub. I love Castlevania, but not THAT much. The only system I ever bought exclusively for ONE GAME was my (long since RRoD'd) Xbox 360 Elite way back when Halo 3 was a brand new thing.

Well the Nintendo handheld systems I would have bought anyway because of Mario Kart and other games. I also remember being excited about Resident Evil: Deadly Silence on the DS. Its just that Castlevania was often a launch title on these systems, so it encouraged me to buy the systems sooner.

Also, I didn't have a Gameboy at all so it was a good purchase (though I did have a Super Gameboy peripheral for my SNES, which I used for Metroid II and the GB CV's).

I also never owned a Game Boy, however I did buy all 3 of the Castlevania Game Boy titles real cheap a few years ago since I can play them on the Gamecube GBA Player. It actually colorizes those games a bit and makes them look a little better.

DS and GBA player for Gamecube.
I think I'm going to give the DS to my significant other when I finish playing all of the DSvanias though. The only other games I've gotten for it are
Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ*, Chrono Trigger, Solatorobo: Red the Hunter and FF3.

I have a little over 30 DS games, I found quite a few other titles on it besides Castlevania that I like. 3DS though I only have 3 games, well 4 when Mirror of Fate comes out. I am also waiting for the price to drop a little on Resident Evil: Revelations. Good thing is even if you give your DS away you can still play those games on 3DS if you get one.

[knightmere]

The only system I specifically bought to play a Castelvania Game was a Japanese Sega Saturn, to play NITM. And yes it was worth every penny.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I also never owned a Game Boy, however I did buy all 3 of the Castlevania Game Boy titles real cheap a few years ago since I can play them on the Gamecube GBA Player. It actually colorizes those games a bit and makes them look a little better.

This is true...
However, with the Super Gameboy you could CHOOSE the colors you would want.
I spent quite a few hours setting up the perfect colors for the games I played. Metroid II was particularly awesome-looking, as the atmosphere was mossy and green with a pitch-black background and golden armor Samus.

EDIT: Actually I got a Saturn for NitM as well.

[knightmere]

This is true...
However, with the Super Gameboy you could CHOOSE the colors you would want.
I spent quite a few hours setting up the perfect colors for the games I played. Metroid II was particularly awesome-looking, as the atmosphere was mossy and green with a pitch-black background and golden armor Samus.

I remember having a Super Gameboy back in the SNES days, those were sweet.  Some of the games had really awesome borders as well.  It was like the precursor to the Gameboy Color. I too spent lots of time perfecting color schemes.

[e105beta]

I love video games too much for me to ever wait for a Castlevania game to come out to buy it.

There's always been another game that has made me buy the system earlier.

[Ratty]

This is true...
However, with the Super Gameboy you could CHOOSE the colors you would want.
I spent quite a few hours setting up the perfect colors for the games I played. Metroid II was particularly awesome-looking, as the atmosphere was mossy and green with a pitch-black background and golden armor Samus.

Yeah they even used that on the cover of the retail Super Gameboy box.

[Kaori]

For me:

Nintendo DS - Dawn of Sorrow
PSP - Dracula X Chronicles

You could technically count the 360 for LoS, but I had actually bought that for Tales of Vesperia. And then Devil May Cry 4 came out, and then LoS came out (I'm kind of glad I didn't buy the 360 solely for LoS since I didn't really like LoS that much). And I bought my 3DS for Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance quite some time ago. So yeah. The DS and the PSP are really the only systems I bought because of Castlevania games. My DS got plenty of use for other games, but my PSP just sits there as a portable emulator. 

[beingthehero]

I bought a PSP with DXC being my primary motivation, but Portable Ops and Valkyrie Profile also helped.

[Flame]

None. I HAVE bought systems for Megaman games however.

[RichterB]

just one: GBA for Circle of the Moon. 

...Contra 4 convinced me on a DS Lite, though.

[shelverton.]

I did buy a DS because of Castlevania, and I'm gonna do the same with 3DS. Other than that I've got tons of consoles and handhelds, but I got all of them for very different reasons. Everything from Zelda, Final Fantasy and Mario, to Shenmue, GTA and Shining Force.