Console Sizes.

As a collector your priority should be on the preservation of your collection, and giving it adequite space & care. Not collecting something because you think it is too big is.... Stupid.

What you should really be saying is, you like to cram all your stuff into as little space as possible, and thus you prefer small consoles. A true collector would not care about such trivial things as space. As a collector your collection would be boxed up nicely, or in nice display setups anyhow. Organizing you room in such a fashion shouldn't be too hard.

Most of my consoles are boxed away, since my room really IS to small to display them all.
I mainly collect non-current generation consoles, which I have for collecting, not for playing. I have a current gen console for playing, which is the GC. You are right that I shouldn't make a decision on which console to buy based on size. It is just that I am very happy that the GC is so small, because I can nicely put it in the small space under my TV :)

Dreamcast is the latest gen console I have :dry:

I don’t like super tiny consoles. But I really hate the big ones. i.e. Xbox. I guess the impression It gives my is, well we don’t want to invest the money in to make its small, or can’t figure it out. Xbox has its place, but to me its always been an over bulky gaudy looking thing. Sure the size of a consol means very little about game play, but look what most of us do to are computer case. We all like a nice looking toys.

To be honest, console sizes really do not matter. Whether it's a Gamecube or slimline PS2 to an XBox and Dreamcast, they all stay connected to a TV, you don't handle them to play so there's no problem about discomfort. Unless you carrry your console to your mates house all the time, and even if that was so I still wouldn't mind carrying an XBox, I'm still happy with a PS3 the size of an old VCR. It's about function, not form!

Why do people make such a big deal about every little aspect of a consol? It seems to me that at the end of the day it's the games that matter.