Not really... I'd still rather have the de facto Xbox Achievements over anything else.

A little bit but not that much. MS hurt themselves in the end and the PS3 took advantage of that. Plus the PS3 was looking like the superior machine in the last few years.

Well, microsoft is in an awkward spot with their business. Their core business is windows/pc market. So, if they want to keep people buying pc's to play games they need to make sure they support pc's. However, they also have a gaming console to support. In some ways, the two could be seen as competing products and it is never good when a company is competing against itself.

It is actually pretty amazing that microsoft is even in the gaming industry. Entering the console market was more about defending their supplementary business rather than their core business. Shows a disturbing lack of forsight that they viewed sony as a big rival with the gaming market and yet they never saw apple coming with the mobile market.

Now, that being said I love microsofts consoles and i love them being in the game industry. I'm just saying it was probably some poor business decisions that lead them to enter the gaming market directly...

I love Xbox too, but I just see that PC compites with 360 sometimes, and the one that takes advantage from this is Sony. Minus value for your console means the competition has better deals to offer.

I would say no, not at all.

Just look at the game sales. Many are more fun to play on an Xbox than a PC.

SimCity and things like that are really nice on PC. But I think most other kind of games just aren't as much fun with you are just pushing buttons on a keyboard.

Wish we could get some of the mods on things like Skyrim though. That would be super cool.

As a pc gamer, ms ruined pc gaming. Multi- plats are nothing more than shoddy console ports also.

This has always been true though. Halo for PC was stellar, fable for PC was awesome. So I do not think specifically xbox 360 was damaged.