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Ex Xbox players Why'd you leave Xbox?

What year did you leave Xbox

  • 2001

    Votes: 3 1.6%

  • 2002

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • 2003

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • 2004

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • 2005

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • 2006

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • 2007

    Votes: 3 1.6%

  • 2008

    Votes: 3 1.6%

  • 2009

    Votes: 11 5.8%

  • 2010

    Votes: 6 3.2%

  • 2011

    Votes: 4 2.1%

  • 2012

    Votes: 10 5.3%

  • 2013

    Votes: 32 16.8%

  • 2014

    Votes: 8 4.2%

  • 2015

    Votes: 8 4.2%

  • 2016

    Votes: 3 1.6%

  • 2017

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • 2018

    Votes: 6 3.2%

  • 2019

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • 2020

    Votes: 7 3.7%

  • 2021

    Votes: 3 1.6%

  • 2022

    Votes: 3 1.6%

  • 2023

    Votes: 24 12.6%

  • 2024

    Votes: 19 10.0%

  • 2025

    Votes: 26 13.7%
  • Total voters
    190
naming got too confusing

wanted to buy the new xbox but bought a xbox 360 because xbox 1 sounded inferior to 360
 
2011.
Cause Dead Space 2 on the 360 was on 2 discs, making me stand up to change disc and the ps3 version was on 1 disc, with the wii version added for free.
Literally tossed my 360 in the trash and went and got a ps3.
 
I left Xbox in 2014 when I got a PS4. I'd generally owned all MS/Sony/Nintendo consoles from each generation before that. But when Xbox showed off the Xbox One's "features", I was out, and I haven't bought an Xbox since.
 
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Yoshichan said:
naming got too confusing

wanted to buy the new xbox but bought a xbox 360 because xbox 1 sounded inferior to 360
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Ironically this was the reason it was called the Xbox 360 instead of Xbox 2. The PS3 and Nintendo "revolution" (codename for wii) made them come up with xbox 360 so as to not look inferior to 3 and include "revolution" in it too. Then they released 'One' once they thought that there was no reason to feel insecure.
 
Not sure what leaving a brand actually means. xbox is a shell of it's former self but I still play a lot of Halo 3 on PC so I don't know what camp that puts me in. I guess it stopped being my favorite game console around the xbox one launch days and the recent GP price hike took away the last good trait it had imo.
 
After playing the exclusives like oblivion, mass effect and tales of vesperia, I switched to PS3 and never looked back. When the PS4 came out I had started building gaming PCs too so there was never a reason to consider an Xbox console again.
 
Still using my XSX, and more then ever because i want to use it fully before my GP subs ends in 6 months, about leaving Xbox.. hmm chances 50/50 i will get a new one, all depends on price and what the hardware will offer, i want to have 2 options to play and PS6 is a given, but i'm not sure about the next Xbox, when they are done with console exclusives then i don't really have to have an Xbox since i can get most if not all of them on PS6, so we'll wait and see what it will bring, what for sure is that in a few months i will probably won't touch my XSX because i only bought 3 games for it, and when my GP sub will end i will have nothing to play on it.
 
I voted 2010 because that was when they announced Kinect. It's been going downhill ever since.

The Peter Moore days will always have a soft spot in my heart. I mean, I bought the damn thing 3 times (Normal, Elite, Elite S). First one RRoD'd 3 time I think. But all the games and the multiplayer just made it worth staying.
 
I started out as a PS gamer with the PS1 and PS2 but I got an Xbox for its modding capabilities and was impressed. I goth both the Xbox 360 and PS3 at launch day but the Xbox 360 clearly had the best software in the first two years (including exclusive Square Enix titles and two major JRPGs). Gears of War was the first online coop game I ever played, both the graphics and the perfect online experience made a big impression. The first two PS3 years were rough. But then PS3 started hitting its stride around 2008/09, I got into buying Blu-Rays after HD-DVD went the way of the dodo and I appreciated how the PS3 was such a complete complete system that didn't force you to buy proprietary addons or a subscription to play online. And then Uncharted 2 arrived, one of my all-time favorite games. There was nothing like that on Xbox.

The PS3 had become my main console and at the same time MS stopped caring about core gamers, but wanted to focus on the casual mainstream audience that had gone gaga for motion controls. Kinect happened, MS focused on nothing else but motion waggle games and their four biggest franchises (Halo, Fable, Forza and Gears).

Then the Xbox One presentation happened and I was an ex Xbox fan for good. But the break happend earlier, in 2010 when Kinect became everything for MS. I wasn't a huge Wii fan, Kinect was sooooo much worse.
 
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First they removed the (wink wink, serious gamers get a discount) for Game Pass, then they doubled down by jacking up the price.
I was out. Happy with my PS5 Pro and Switch 2.
 
2013/2014. The Xbox One just turned me off so bad. I tried getting a PS4 around that time either and it just didn't do much for me either. I started solely focusing on PC more and more then.

For me, there were no exclusives, or at least nothing that excited me or spoke to me. So, the purpose of having it felt pretty pointless.
 
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As a console gamer, ~ 2017 or so when I sold my Xbone. I left sooner since I could get the games I wanted on PC. I do still sub to gamepass but will let it lapse this fall and may go back for a month or 2 here and there when the backlog gets interesting.
 
kruis said:
I started out as a PS gamer with the PS1 and PS2 but I got an Xbox for its modding capabilities and was impressed. I goth both the Xbox 360 and PS3 at launch day but the Xbox 360 clearly had the best software in the first two years (including exclusive Square Enix titles and two major JRPGs). Gears of War was the first online coop game I ever played, both the graphics and the perfect online experience made a big impression. The first two PS3 years were rough. But then PS3 started hitting its stride around 2008/09, I got into buying Blu-Rays after HD-DVD went the way of the dodo and I appreciated how the PS3 was such a complete complete system that didn't force you to buy proprietary addons or a subscription to play online. And then Uncharted 2 arrived, one of my all-time favorite games. There was nothing like that on Xbox.

The PS3 had become my main console and at the same time MS stopped caring about core gamers, but wanted to focus on the casual mainstream audience that had gone gaga for motion controls. Kinect happened, MS focused on nothing else but motion waggle games and their four biggest franchises (Halo, Fable, Forza and Gears).

Then the Xbox One presentation happened and I was an ex Xbox fan for good. But the break happend earlier, in 2010 when Kinect became everything for MS. I wasn't a huge Wii fan, Kinect was sooooo much worse.
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PS3 is the only Playstation where it wasn't my main console my 360 was but soon as I got PS4 I loved it and my Xbone was ignored.
 
Topher said:
Sold my XSX in 2023. Didn't see the point anymore.
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This is me.

Backwards compatibility was very cool, hardware-wise it was excellent and Gamepass, in the beginning at least where you could get it for peanuts was something not seen before, and yet...

Jumped back in in November 2020 (XSX, day1) but after years of (broken) promises, bullshit PR and game no-show I just couldn't anymore and jumped back again to Playstation.

Just goes to show that software is the real driving force no matter how good the hardware may be.
 
Late 2015.
I had an Xbox One purely for Halo 5 and Rare Replay. (It was the Halo 5/Guardians branded console as well.)
The controller kept randomly disconnecting (not ideal when trying to get through Halo 5 on Legendary). I Googled it and saw many many people having the same (unresolved) issue.
I got pissed off and sold it all. I think the console was in my possession for 4 months in total.

Never bothered with the Series X, That bridge is burned.
 
I still play games on my Xbox but I don't buy new games there anymore. I don't see any reason to continue to invest in a platform that the company doesn't seem to believe in.
 
DavidGzz said:
You can't leave Xbox bros, they are a 3rd party. You tried, they adapted. 😉
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Jokes aside, I just had a look at my library. last xbox game i got was halo 3. last abk game i got was cod ghost. and the last bethesda game was fallout 4. i have not given ms a red cent over a decade now.
 
Grildon Tundy said:
I left Xbox in 2014 when I got a PS4. I'd generally owned all MS/Sony/Nintendo consoles from each generation before that. But when Xbox showed off the Xbox One's "features", I was out, and I haven't bought an Xbox since.
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Same for me. Had a blast with the 360, then was incredibly put off by the info for Xbox One. Weren't they planning to have an unremovable camera that was always online or something?

Whatever it was it made me get a PS4.
 
Venzik said:
Same for me. Had a blast with the 360, then was incredibly put off by the info for Xbox One. Weren't they planning to have an unremovable camera that was always online or something?

Whatever it was it made me get a PS4.
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Yes--that's exactly what it was: In the initial reveal, the Kinect's camera and microphone were required and active even when "off", including a 24-hour online DRM check-in. From AI:

"It listened 24/7 for "Xbox On," tracked heart rate, facial expressions, movements, worked in the dark, and sent data to Microsoft's 300,000 servers."

I remember talking with someone at work at the time (who was also a gamer) about how invasive that was, and he looked at me like I was the crazy one for it even being a concern.

Microsoft eventually walked it back, but that initial reveal made me so mad.
 
Went back to mostly PC and Nintendo in 2012 after my second Xbox 360 died.

The next Xbox did not look good to me and I knew was going to be down hill from there for them.
 
Bill Murray Well Its Groundhog Day Again GIF
 
Sold my Series X in 2023. Left Game Pass in 2025.

I have a PC and would rather buy games on sale.

I honestly don't miss either service, but I respect those that still use the platform. It's just not for me anymore. I doubt I'll ever come back, given their current strategy.
 
Sold my XBSX and let my GP sub go last year but I will continue to play "Xbox" games on PC. I have not ruled out getting the next Xbox console but for now I have no Xbox console.
 
The xbox one came out. And all the magic the 360 had was gone. The dashboards looked like windows 8, the green LEDs on the console and controller were now white. The ABXY buttons were now black on colors. Shit exclusives. Game and text chat became policed hard, killing the "Xbox live community". Turning the entire brand into a subscription service in 2017 was the final nail in the coffin for me. I was a huge Xbox fan back in the xbox 360 days.
 
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I bounced in 2015 I think, whenever they announced QB on PC. Just didn't see much of a point in keeping the One especially when I was buying most third party stuff on PS4.
 
Let me put it this way.

I was the biggest Xbox fan in the original and never owned a PS2. I hated Sony and the PS2 for the fact that it was such a visual downgrade from the Xbox. Dumb reason, but that's why.

I switched from worshipping Xbox and hating PS when I saw that MS was backing HD-DVD for the sole purpose of pro-longing the format war. It was obvious very early on that Bluray was the better format on paper...although it took a while for those advantages to manifest. I was a home theater enthusiast and I HATED that. Between 360 and PS3, I was more or less split down the middle in terms of which console I favored. Multiplat games were usually better on 360 and in many instances it wasn't even close. That changed once 3rd party developers started using the PS3 as the lead platform. At that point they got closer to par. I went very much into PS once the first party games started to fruit. MS drastically took their feat off the gas in quality first party output.

For the PS4/One generation. I drastically preferred the PS4 and the reasons are obvious. MS didn't know what the hell they were doing. I barely touched my Xbox that gen, until the Xbox One X came out.

I was initially excited when the Bethesda acquisition took place as I had hopes that it would lead to more games from franchises like Doom, Fallout and Elder Scrolls....low and behold we got none of those yet.
 
For the same reason I left Sony. Midway through the PS360 era. I was no longer forced into paying the walled garden tax on every gaming item I wanted. PC's were entering a pricing and compatibility golden age with the Nvidia 200 series and the ATi 4000 series. You could buy a 4770 for $99 and run every third-party game better than consoles. Combined with the experience of knowing all that shiny plastic becomes dusty clutter in the blink of an eye, the choice was clear. Just got a much better return on my dollar building my own gaming machine to suit my needs at the time.
 
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I sold my Xbox One X year 2020 but I hadn't played for a couple of years. I only had it to play some 360 classics and RDR2 but it was almost unused.. So I don't know, I left Xbox somewhere 2016-2018. After the Xbox 360 I lost almost all interest and it started going downhill very very fast.
 
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As en ex-PlayStation player, I feel discriminated by all these ex-Xbox player threads, and feel like we need more of those, too.

/s

Just for some balance, I left PlayStation in 2012 and have never missed it.
 
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2009

Because that E3 showing was straight ass and the Gears, Forza, Halo was clearly starting with ODLC.


Seeing Uncharted 2 + God of War 3 and Infamous was enough for me to take advantage of that 50% trade in bonus from GameStop and trading everything in. Got around 650, got a slim model and some back games and never looked back. Been PC + PS since then
 
I was a 360 kid, but left Xbox in 2015 when decided for a PS4 instead of the Xbox One, due to pricing mess with mandatory Kinect and no killer apps at the level of Bloodborne, Infamous Second Son and Driveclub. But, in reality, i started to turn 2 years before that to PS, when got a PS3 in 2013 for its killer apps (TLoU, GoW 3, Killzone Trilogy), because after 2011 360 has few real exclusive bangers after Gears 3 and Forza 4. I mean, 2012 Halo 4 was graphically impressive, but gameplay and plot wise felt like a step down from Reach. In fact, after Reach, Halo started it´s demise. By 2018 i was thinking on getting an Xbox One X, for taking advatage of the 4K and also the BC with improved resolution and framerate for 360 games, but then, found out was a better deal just to build my first entry level gaming PC (which i upgraded recently). I really had faith Series S/X could have been a killer comeback, but it´s even worst than One gen, so in 2023 i went for a PS5. Don´t get me wrong, the Series consoles both are good systems, and don´t deserve it´s current "lame" state, but the lack of exclusive killer apps and the day 1 Xbox/PC exclusives and also now Gears, Forza and Halo launching on PS5 made things unbeareable, because there is no real reason to get an Xbox other than loyalty to the brand (Series X) or a "budget" option for a "next gen" machine (Series S). Basically i went to PC because of Xbox...

PD: I still love and play with my 360 from time to time, and mad love to my OG Xbox which it´s one of my all-time favorite consoles!!!
 
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DEAD ORIGINAL said:
This is a couple questions for former Xbox players when did you leave? and why?
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Was a PS1 guy, skipped the PS2 for the Xbox, became a Xbox360 guy and bought a PS3 mid gen. Everything was possible at that point but MS totally lost me with the One.

Kinect, media center, sports and TV centered 'console' wtf ?!

So 2013 for me, with the release of the PS4.
 
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