They have certainly earned mine, even though I wanted to buy the origional Xbox from day one, I wasn't sure if I could make the Xbox my console of choice, but when I finally purchased an Xbox two years after it launched, it was everything people said it was, the big game of course, Halo was incredible and made a Halo fan out of me as well has millions of other gamers. It wasn't all about Halo though the Xbox slowly gained strong third party support and exclusives such as the Chronicles of Riddick, Doom 3, and other games made the Xbox worth having.
Now fast foward to E3 2005, I didn't really care to look into all the new things that Xbox 360 would bring I was just happy that they added top buttons to the controller in reminiscents of the Playstation controller and a little game called Gears of War grabbed my attention and wouldn't let go.
Microsoft promised a videogame system that would change entertainment forever, but did they deliver on that promise?
From wireless controllers out of the box, finally no more wires, to game demos on demand, it was a delight to know that I didn't have to buy another game magazine to check out the latest game demos, what an awesome feature. Then came the online gaming features, which took a little getting used to but in no time I was joining games and chatting with friends and strangers. Gears of War lived up to the hype and we all knew Halo 3 was on the way, the reason I needed to get an Xbox 360, did Halo 3 live up to the hype, in my eyes no, but the multiplayer is awesome, along with the recording feature, which I believe every multiplayer game in the future should have, good thing Gears of War was there that game made up for Halo 3's campaign sucking hard, I haven't played Halo 3: ODST yet, but future Halo games is why I will always get an Xbox, I just love the Halo Universe, I am so looking foward to Halo 4 persumably on the next Xbox.
Along with Halo gand Gears of War, Microsoft made sure to give their supporters every game they so desire as a result we now have hit franchises like Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear and Tekken all out for or coming to our Xbox 360.
Microsoft has led the way this generation with a unified online gaming system, along with Movies, TV shows, Music Videos, Music and most important of all amazing and fun videogames on demand all in High Definition all coming from one service Xbox Live and from one box Xbox 360.
So did the Xbox 360 change entertainment forever? HELL'S YEA! And Microsoft aint finished yet, Project Natal will be here next year and who knows what the next Xbox will bring, all I know is that for us Xbox supporters awesome experiences are yet to come from Microsoft and their Xbox.