First off, I just want to say that this is a great idea for a thread. I agree that people have been focusing way too much on the negative stuff rather than just enjoying games. This happens with ALL three consoles and it needs to be toned down a bit.
Why I love my 360:
To be perfectly honest, I hated the original XBOX. In my younger days I was a bigger fanboy than I am now and loved Nintendo and Sony greatly. The XBOX just came off as the arrogant console, and its over hyped Halo franchise annoyed me to no end.
But then one summer I visited my friends up north, and I played Halo 2 for the first time. Halo multiplayer is awesome to say the least, and people were surprised at how well I played it, despite me never touching an XBOX controller before.
But it was the 360 that really sold me the XBOX. I noticed that unlike the original XBOX it had a more varied game library and featured many games I would like to both own and play (like the "Dead or Alive series" and some of Rare's games). I played a friend's 360 and fell in love with its features, like the ability to download demos directly to your hard drive, its expansive multimedia playback and how easy it is to add news to your XBOX Live account.
The XBOX Live Arcade is perhaps my favorite feature. I love classic gaming, as well as the oddball indie title, and the marketplace provides them by the tons. if I had more money I would be buying a lot of points just to get a lot of my favorites.
I am also liking how its getting many of the PS3's exclusives. I can't afford a PS3 at the moment, so the more games to hit the 360 the better.
My only concern is that the 360 sees nothing but gray FPS, in the same vein that the Wii is only getting party games. Its a very powerful system, developers should be more inventive.
But overall, I went from being a hater to a believer in just a few years.
