I have a ps4 and TV I would like to bring to college and set up in my dorm. Is that unusual? Or pretty normal
Is it unusual? No. Is it common? At least for the TV, also no.
If you are thinking a 65" flat screen, you are probably overestimating that amount of space you will have. 
With the PS4, you might also be overestimating the amount of free time you will have. Personally, I’d wait until Thanksgiving break to decide.
I think every dorm I’ve been in so far has a TV, it just rarely gets used (at least for its intended purpose; one of my friends uses her as an excess-clothes rack).
I have a PS4 and TV setup in my room right now and I think it’s pretty ideal. The TV (32" flat-screen) is mounted on top of the PS4 and both are in a closet above my chest of drawers that has an outlet attached to the side. The one downside of this setup is that it’s too far to attach to the cable box in my room (which is under my desk, on the opposite side of the room), but that only matters for live TV, and the only thing I ever watch live is hockey. If you care enough, you can buy wireless transmitters that would allow you to put a TV anywhere and still get cable, but by the time I realized those existed I knew I would be living off-campus in a place with cable next year (still keeping my TV and PS4 for my bedroom in case one of my housemates is watching something else).
I only game a couple times a month, but I think that my setup works really well. I have Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu on the PS4, thus alleviating the need for live TV (Hulu especially comes in clutch because they get some shows the morning after original air, and it comes included with Spotify premium for students), and when I’m cleaning my room I like to put Spotify on the PS4. I’ve also watched a few movies on the PS4 by getting the Blu-Ray from the library. I prefer watching TV and movies on an actual television to watching on my laptop; the screen isn’t as bright and it’s farther away from my face, so it’s less straining on the eyes.
Overall, it’s one of those things that I don’t use all the time, but I would be frustrated if I wanted to use it and didn’t have the opportunity. Your post insinuates that you already have both, so it wouldn’t cost you anything to bring them along, and I’d recommend it.
It’s actually quite common for people to bring TV’s and video games up to college. For me, I didn’t bring mine because my mom thought that it would be a distraction for me. I respect her decision, but I believe that it would actually help me if it was always there for my use. It would help me learn self-control to use my time wisely.
A good initiative: If you keep up your grades up, then you can keep the Xbox up at college.
My S is a freshman, and he & roommate have a tv in their room. Right now, they only have an old Wii gaming system for it, and they play old Wii games late evenings when they’re not swamped with work (when they’re not playing poker, Euchre, or other board games). It’s not weird, and as long as it won’t become too much of a time sink, it’s a good thing to have for social fun and stress relief.
Kids do it but imo it’s a bad idea. You sit down start to play, then look up and realize class is over.
Yes, it is common to bring TV and video games to college. But it also varies from college to college, some colleges do not allow the special TV and video games as they have a common TV for one. Before bringing you can ask in your college or seniors, whether it is allowed or not to avoid the future circumstances.
Thanks for all the help! Haha I don’t think it will become a major time sink, I would just use it for netflix/gaming to get a break from studying, that kind of thing
I wouldn’t recommend bringing a gaming system in general - if you do, your dorm might become a social hub and it will be hard to get work done. I used to love playing video games but once college started, I haven’t really touched video games at all since August. You won’t have as much free time and you may find that you will want to use that free time in different ways.
I’m going to disagree with some of the posts in here.
I’m a lifelong gamer who played a lot of games all through college (and high school, and grad school, and now). College students do have a lot of free time. I had way more free time in college than I did in high school, personally, and also more than I do now as a full-time employee. (And that was with doing 10-15 hours a week of research plus working part-time plus taking a full load.)
Video games are like any other hobby. You can get engrossed and look up and realize that you spent 3 hours gaming and missed class, but you could do that with a good book or Netflix or wasting time on the Internet. But really, if you are a responsible young person who takes academics seriously I think your chances of doing that regularly are pretty slim. You can put boundaries on your play and limits on who can play it for how long. That’s part of being an adult.
Your dorm room doesn’t have to become the social hub if you primarily play single-player or online MP (really, there aren’t very many couch MP games for PS4 anyway) or if you don’t publicize the fact that you have a system. When I was in college several of my friends had system but there was only one friend who we used to go play GameCube (Smash!) in his dorm room and that’s because he’s the one who wanted to be the social hub. I bought a Wii in college and my room was decidedly not the social hub.
And really, I met a lot of people on campus through playing video games - mostly through talking about Smash and someone would ask, “You play Smash?” and then it was on.
If you’re the kind of kid who would skip class all the time and play PS4 instead, I think you’d know that already.
I’m an adult and I can still play 10-15+ hours a week of video games, sometimes more - just depends on the week. (But, I must admit that I am somewhat biased because I work for a gaming company. Still, I played that much before I worked in gaming!)
Yeah, plenty of people bring a tv and console. It’s not a big deal.
My son did. It wasn’t an issue. He and his roommate played, but it didn’t effect his college grades any more than it did his high school grades.
Brought my ps2 and a small tv with me to college in 2005. Served as a great way for my roommate and I to bond. He graduated magma cum lauded and I graduated cum laude. If you’re a responsible student it won’t be an issue.
I would suggest not taking it with you the first day of freshman year. Get used to classes, make friends, join clubs…and then think about it.