Best Xbox console generation of all time?

This is an Xbox...

  • Original Xbox(2001)

    Votes: 45 23.7%

  • Xbox 360

    Votes: 134 70.5%

  • Xbox One

    Votes: 3 1.6%

  • Xbox Series S/X

    Votes: 8 4.2%
  • Total voters
    190
Everybody is going to say 360, but for me it was the original. The PS2 was a lot of hype, but never really delivered on the HW side. The games came because it was selling, but the HW just straight up sucked. The Xbox had Halo and other games that blew it away, multiplats looked and ran better on Xbox, using your own music in games was epic, etc.
 
Topher said:
Xbox 360 is what turned millions of people into Xbox fans
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Half-truth.
Kagoshima_Luke said:
Everybody is going to say 360, but for me it was the original. The PS2 was a lot of hype, but never really delivered on the HW side. The games came because it was selling, but the HW just straight up sucked. The Xbox had Halo and other games that blew it away, multiplats looked and ran better on Xbox, using your own music in games was epic, etc.
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360 will be the GOAT forever, and my favorite 7th gen console overall, but there´s something about the OG Xbox. It was really the most powerful console of its era and really brought for me that sensation of "the future" is now after the Dreamcast. I mean, it was on the same generation that DC (my all-time favorite console) and PS2, but when i saw stuff like Rally Sports Challenge and Riddick by 04, and then next year Doom 3, Far Cry Instincts, DOA 2 U, Halo 2 in action...And also add multiplattform games like NFSU 2 and San Andreas looking better than PS2....And the Latin America perk of modded consoles with N64 and Neo Geo emulators...Dude it was too much to handle! It was the fucking console of my dreams at the time...I still play with it to this day, and, in fact, i´ts the last console i´ve been amuzed and jaw dropped until this day (the other one, of course, was Dreamcast which OG Xbox was sort of an spiritual successor).

EDIT: And also rip music CDs and put their songs into the soundtrack of games like San Andreas.... Fucking epic!
 
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Topher said:
Whole truth
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I can only go off general perception, which tells me most people who played 360 eventually went back to PS3 then PS4 way before MS "shit" the bed with anti-consumer policies with the XB1.

I personally just think a lot of things went right for Microsoft in 2005 outside of losing the physical media war.
 
Let's say the 360 launched with a built in HD-DVD drive and launched at $500/600 like the PS3 did...you think people who have been as receptive to it in 2006 when the PS3 launched?
 
Artistic said:
I can only go off general perception, which tells me most people who played 360 eventually went back to PS3 then PS4 way before MS "shit" the bed with anti-consumer policies with the XB1.

I personally just think a lot of things went right for Microsoft in 2005 outside of losing the physical media war.
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I don't think that is "general perception". I don't know how many 360 fans went to PS3 (or if that is even accurate) but I do know 360 brought over a shitton of PlayStation fans which is in itself was a major accomplishment. What went right for Xbox 360 was some major innovations such as achievemnts, cross game chat and superior online. They also put Xbox on equal footing with PlayStation in terms of games. Something the og Xbox did not do.

I haven't seen you post your arguments why you think the og Xbox was equal to 360. Did I miss it?
 
I think and for probably for the obvious reasons the Series S and more specifically the Series X has the best hardware/OS experience yet that Xbox has to offer.

At the same time, I'm at a different point in my life where gaming isn't as prelevant to me anymore. I still game here and there, but it's not like my HS days for sure. My passion is still there for a lot of my hobbies, but I guess I've become so focused on the business side of things where I forgot to just enjoy them.

I can't speak specifically on exclusives because I haven't completed many of any lol, but I've had fun with FH5, Halo Infinite, and more. Just need to change my habits.
 
I still think the original was a really solid beginning. For me it was the most memorable, especially some great launch titles. I also loved the Duke controller. Microsoft had a good underdog vibe. 360 was fine until they pissed it away and allowed PS3 to take over. But since then XBOX has been a disaster and just continues to be a cancer on the console industry.
 
1. Xbox 360 (set the standard for online console gaming, solid line-up of games, best performing multi-plat titles on console, best controller that gen, etc.)
2. Xbox
3. Xbox Series X
4. Xbox One dead last (Microsoft had less studios producing less stuff I even cared about, and game pass only happened in the last few years of it)
 
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Bry0 said:
I voted OG. It laid the groundwork for Xbl, arcade, and the big franchises.

360 xbl and the dashboard and all of that was also huge and arguably more directly influential, but the OG laid the groundwork for all of it.
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I'll never forget playing Ghost Recon on Xbox Live for the first time in college after I got back from winter break.

It was my first ever voice chat game (Phantasy Star Online on Dreamcast was my first online game).

Dude, I was up until like 6 in the morning playing with a squad crawling into enemy lines. It absolutely blew my mind and I've been hooked since. I'll never forget that experience.
 
360 was awesome, but the OG really offered something unique for it's time with it's online and LAN play (among other things). Honestly PS2, Gamecube, and the first Xbox were all most own systems. There was so much variety that gen.
 
Xbox was magic. Brought a whole new hemisphere of gaming to console. Felt like a generational leap of PS2 at times during the gen. The CD dumping and a handful of titles like Doom 3 and Splinter Cell mainly.

Xbox 360 was a cultural powerhouse. For me, I actually was more interested in PS3 since I thought the console design was more in line with the OG Xbox. I ended up leaving console gaming after beginning on NES mid generation since both were so poorly compared to a then-cheap gaming PC.

Bone and Series are just walled gardens playing PC games. My son has had a Series S all generation and was the perfect use-case for gamepass, so there's that. His gaming interests are what GAF would have called DudeBro at one time (COD and Madden etc), so Gamepass was a clear winner for his needs vs a handful of Sony exclusives. Since I play on PC they're just a non starter. Considered one for the living room, but honestly I'd probably grab a PS5 for the one or two exclusives that don't come to Steam. Odds are I'll get a beefy BeeLink though. Hell their top shelf might be cheaper than the PS6.

It wouldn't have helped Microsoft continue their goals of total gaming domination, but I often wonder what awesome things a true Xbox 2 could have brought.
 
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I'm not an Xbox person and I have never owned an Xbox but even I know that the Xbox 360 was Microsoft's best console although it all started going downhill the moment they introduced the Kinect.
 
Artistic said:
Might want to sit this one out.
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So either you don't agree that the X360 is the best system they made, or you don't agree that their focus to TV,TV, Media Center mantra! That started with the Kinect era was the beginning of the end or your just being nice and trying to shield me from would be disuadors of this sentiment by telling me to leave the conversation.

Hard to tell which one it is.
 
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Xion_Stellar said:
So either you don't agree that the X360 is the best system they made, or you don't agree that their focus to TV,TV, Media Center mantra! That started with the Kinect era was the beginning of the end or your just being nice and trying to shield me from would be disuadors of this sentiment by telling me to leave the conversation.

Hard to tell which one it is.
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Rankings are in the OP.

I wouldn't go off other people's opinions, base it off what you experience yourself.
 
OG XBOX was incredible and way ahead of its time. Its potential was never fully realized either. Second place is the Series consoles.
 
360 was amazing until the last 2 years. They went full on with Kinect and stopped investing in first party games.
That lead into the devastating xbone era and while the series x was amazing hardware, the decisions of the past really kept with them.
 
Artistic said:
Rankings are in the OP.

I wouldn't go off other people's opinions, base it off what you experience yourself.
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I never said that I never touched an Xbox system before I just said that I never owned an Xbox system before and that I wouldn't call myself an Xbox person.

Siblings and friends with this system exists you know? So forming an opinion on the state of the consoles and the Xbox Ecosystem itself is perfectly valid through those interactions I had over the years.
 
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I spent a lot of money during the Xbox 360 era on consoles due to the red ring 6 times and a DVD drive once. Various parts and pieces and tools and thermal paste and a drill plus a soldering iron and a few brand new consoles chewed through my finances at an alarming rate. Regardless, I still loved the damn console and the games and the communities more than any other generation prior to or since then. So many great memories. I've had quite a few good times with buddies from work during the current gen with the Series X, but nothing compares to what came before. Man I miss it.
 
360 felt energized with flavor and nothing got in its way but itself (RROD), traditions were made like party chat with friends after school, good home menu, 360! 360! 360!
 
Voted OG. I felt no console of theirs since has done more to differentiate itself from
the competition. Original Xbox felt like a powerhouse of a console too. Stuff like Ninja Gaiden Crimson Skies, jet set radio future, Outrun 2 were so damn good at the time. Not to mention playing Halo over lan on 2 TVs is probably one of my favorite gaming experiences ever.
 
360 was incredible.
Awesome exclusives, the superior console version of most third party games, great controller, powerful, reasonably affordable.
One of the best consoles I've ever owned.
 
Original cause I'll never get those lan party years back. Best type of gaming with the Halo 1 theme going while everyone got set up. Chills.
 
OG was the most impressive tech and graphics wise at that time, great games no RROD or expensive HDD 360 had. Halo made in 9 months is a magical achievement even today. Ed Fries was making great gaming deals with developers you can only dream nowadays.
 
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