I have always bought consoles for the games. Back in the 90's I bought the SNES for Zelda(A link to the past? I thinks thats it), the PS1 for FFVII, the XBOX for Morrowind, Gamecube for it's Zelda game, and the PS2 for Vice City. Oh, and the 360 for Oblivion.
Oh yeah, the N64 for its Zelda game too. I cannot remember the name of that one for the life of me.