Topic: Your console ownership timeline?

My personal list goes as follows... (also, a lot of time in the late 90's and early 2000's were PC focused, but I'm skipping that for consoles and portables only).

1990? - Nintendo Entertainment System
1992? - Sega Genesis
1993? - Sega Game Gear
1994? - Super Nintendo
1997 - Nintendo 64
2000 - Sega Dreamcast
2001 - Nintendo GameCube (sold after a month)
2001 - Microsoft Xbox
2007 - Microsoft Xbox 360
2009 - Nintendo Wii
2011 - Nintendo 3DS
2012 - Nintendo Wii U
2013 - Playstation 4

i am not sure exactly when it comes to the first 3

1996? - GameBoy sold
1998? - Playstation sold
2002? - XBox sold
2006 - Wii sold
2008 - Gameboy Advance sold
2009 - DSi sold
2011 - 3DS
2014 - XBox (again lol)

I was born in 1995, and I had my dad's NES during my first five years of life.
2000 - Gameboy Colour
2002 - Gamecube
2005 - PS2 and GBA SP
2007 - Nintendo DS Lite
2010 - PS3
2011 - Wii
2012 - 3DS
2013 - Wii U

And I'm getting a PS4 this year.

1990 - NES
1992 - SNES
1996 - Gameboy Pocket
1997 - N64
1999 - Dreamcast
2002 - Gamecube
2004 - Gameboy Advance SP
2006 - Wii
2006 - Nintendo DS
2007 - XBOX 360 - SOLD 2007
2009 - Nintendo DSi
2010 - PS3 - SOLD 2013
2011 - Nintendo 3DS (Ocarina of time edition)
2012 - Wii U
2013 - Nintendo 3DSXL (ALBW edition)
2014 - New 3DS (AUS Import)
2015 - New 3DS (Ambassador edition)
2015? - New 3DSXL (Majora's mask edition?)

Yep, that seems about right. Just the Dreamcast that I still own that's Non Nintendo!

I cannot remember other than I got an imported USA N64 day 1 (Or at least ordered as fast as at all possible.) and a PAL Dreamcast day 1.

from my 5th birthday onwards the list starts like this and progresses as such~
November 13th, 1998 - Nintendo 64
1999 - Gameboy Color / November 13th - Sony PSone
2001- Gameboy Advance
2002 - Nintendo GameCube w/Super Mario Sunshine bundle
2003 - GBA SP
November 13th 2004 - PlayStation 2
late 2005 - Nintendo DS w/ Mario Kart DS bundle
January 18th, 2007 - Wii
June 7th, 2011 - Nintendo 3DS
September 2011 - Xbox 360
March 7th, 2013 - Wii U
November 21st, 2013 - Zelda edition 3DS XL
November 12th, 2014 - Xbox One

NES
Genesis
Saturn
Playstation
Dreamcast
Game Gear
N64
Odyssey 2
Xbox
JVC X'eye
Gamecube (traded with a friend for his PS2)
PS2
GBA
Gamecube
Xbox 360
SNES
GBA SP
Wii
Nomad

I think that's the order of how I got them.

NES - October 18,1985 Yep got it launch day since that is my birthday as well
Gamboy - August 1990 (As an early birthday gift so I can take it on the family vacation)
SNES - Christmas 1991
Sega Genesis - Christmas 1992
Sega CD - Christmas 1993
Virtual Boy - Summer 1995
N64 - Christmas 1996
Playstation - Sometime in 1997 not sure exactly when
Gameboy Color - Summer 1999
Playstation 2 - Christmas 2000
Gamecube - 2002 (Whenever they had the Zelda Collectors Edition disc bundled with they GC)
Gameboy Advance - Christmas 2003
Gameboy Advance SP - Spring 2004
Nintendo DS - Summer 2005
Nintendo Wii - Launch day 2006
Xbox 360 - Christmas 2008
Nintendo 3DS - Summer 2011
Nintendo Wii U Launch Day 2012
Nintendo 3DS XL - 2013
Sega Dreamcast - 2013
Black Sega Dreamcast -2013
Playstation 4 - Launch Day 2013

I had leftover Atari 2600 and Radio Shack TRS-80 around the house from older siblings.

My first real console was the
NES
Tandy 1000
SNES
Gameboy
PS1
Gameboy Color
486 intel with Voodoo 3 GFX card
Various upgrades to said computer...
Gameboy Advance
Gamecube
Wii
Quadcore PC with Nvidea 760 series GFX
Wii U
3DS

1991 NES
1996 N64
1999 GBC
2000 Pokémon Pikachu, GBP
2001 Pokémon Pikachu 2 GS, GBA, NGC
2004 GB (Original), GBASP, NDS
2005 GBM
2006 SNES, VB, DSL, G&W, Nintendo Mini Classics, Pokémon Mini, Wii
2009 DSi
2010 Pokéwalker, DSi XL
2011 3DS
2012 3DS XL, Wii U
2013 2DS, Wii Fit Meter

Most of these are estimates. Before 2006, I don't know when exactly I got what.

1994 - SNES
1998 - Gameboy Pocket
1999 - N64
2001 - PS1
2003 - PS2
2005 - Xbox
2006 - PS3
2011 - Wii and DS
2012 - Wii U and 3DS
2015 - Xbox 360

Atari VCS2600
MB Vectrex
Sega Megadrive
SNES
Gameboy
Atari Jaguar
3DO
Sega Saturn
Playstation
N64
Dreamcast
XBox
Gamecube
Nintendo DS
Xbox 360
Wii
Nintendo 3DS
XBox One
Wii U

The NES, SNES, and Game Boy were all bought before I was born. As for the other consoles....

1998? - N64
2002? - GBA
2003 - GCN (thank you Smash Bros. for telling me when I got this)
2004? - PS2
2005 - DS
2008 - Wii
2010 - Xbox 360
2012 - 3DS
2013 - Wii U

???? - NES (Had as far back as I can remember)
199? - SNES (I vaguely remember getting it on Christmas, but I was so young I don't remember the year)
199? - Genesis (I never actually played it, I just remembered my dad played sports games on it during the time we had the SNES)
199? - N64 (Got during a Christmas I remember vividly, other than the year. I know it wasn't launch though)
199? - PS1 (Same Christmas as N64 I believe)
199? - GB Pocket (Got at a garage sale one year)
2001 - PS2 (Got for Christmas)
2002 - GBA (Christmas again)
2007 - GCN (Bought with B-Day money), 360 (Dad won in a contest), Wii (Christmas)
2009 - DS Lite (Bought with graduation money), iPod Touch 2nd Gen (Bought myself)
2010 - PS3 Slim (B-Day gift for dad)
2011 - 3DS (Bought myself), 360 Slim (Brother bought, after original died)
2014 - Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (Got through a rewards program)

The first console In my house wasn't mine.My father bought a NES clone with pre-installed games to play light gun games.

My consoles:
Playstation
DS
Wii
Wii U
2DS

1999 - PlayStation (shared with my brother)
2000 - Dreamcast (shared with my brother)
2000 - GameBoy Color
2003 - PlayStation 2 (shared with my brother)
2004 - GameBoy Advance SP
2005 - PlayStation 2 Slim (my own one)
2008 - Wii
2010 - Nintendo DS Lite
2013 - Wii U

Uh let's see...
1989 GameBoy
1989 NES
1990 Sega Genesis
1991 Game Gear
1992 Super Nintendo
1994 Jaguar
1995 PlayStation
1996 Game Boy Pocket (the love I had for this thing...)
1998 Game Boy Color (probably would have been later if my mother's fat dumb boyfriend didn't destroy my precious Pocket)
1998 Nintendo 64
2000 PSOne
2001 GameBoy Advance
2001 PlayStation 2 (original)
2003 Nintendo GameCube
2003 GameBoy Advance SP
2004 Nintendo DS
2005 Playstation 2 (slimline)
2006 Xbox 360
2006 Nintendo DS lite
2006 PlayStation Portable
2006 PlayStation 3 (launch)
2009 Wii
2013 Nintendo 3DS
2013 PlayStation 3 (super slim)
2013 Nintendo 3DS XL
2013 PlayStation Vita
2014 Nintendo 3DS (F that XL nonsense)
2014 Wii U
2015 New Nintendo 3DS (I predict I will get this)

1985? Amstrad 6128 (still have)
1989? Amiga 500
1991 Game Gear (still have)
1991 Megadrive (still have)
1993 Mega CD (still have)
1995 32X (still have)
1995 Saturn (still have)
1996 PS1
1997 N64 (still have)
1999 Dreamcast (still have)
2001 PS2 (still have)
2001? Game Boy Advance (still have)
2002 Game Cube (still have)
2003? Game Boy Advance SP (still have)
2006 PSP (still have)
2006 Wii (still have)
2007 DS Lite (still have)
2011 3DS (still have)
2013 Wii U (still have)

Over the last 10 years, have collected the following;
SNES
Multi Mega
3DO
Atari 7800
Jaguar
Jaguar CD (toilet seat)
Amiga 600
Amstrad GX4000

2003 - PS2
2004 - Game Cube
2004 - Game Boy Advance
2007 - PSP (SOLD)
2007 - DS
2008 - Wii
2010 - PS3
2011 - N64
2011 - 3DS
2012 - Wii U
2013 - Sega Genesis

This is not counting duplicates, of course. Now, if it were like that...

1989? - Gameboy
1991? - SNES
1996 - Sega Saturn
1998 - N64
1998 - Neo Geo Pocket
1998 - Gameboy Color
1999 - Dreamcast
2001 - Xbox
2001 - GBA
2002 - Gamepark 32
2002 - Gamecube
2003 - PS2
2004 - Nintendo DS
2005 - XBox 360
2005 - PSP
2006 - Wii
2007 - PS3
2011 - 3DS
2012 - Wii U

Quite a few regrets in there (NeoGeo Pocket; GamePark 32; Nintendo DS; PSP; PS3 where I got very little out of them due to not having my taste in games, too little games or being personally a bit out of games at the time). Historically I've always bought what appeals to me. There is nothing non-Nintendo out of the current gen (mainly because I got so little out of the PS3 and XBox 360).