eugene on 21 November 2007
They have always been popular, its just that consoles were never able to have pc quality FPS games until the original xbox came out. The controls never felt right before until the xbox game pad and xbox had higher 480 p resolutions which back then were revolutionary. Halo or maybe goldeneye can be credited to making it mainstream to consoles and Halo 2 made online multiplayer FPS games mainstream in the living room especially to casual gamers. FPS games was sadly overlooked genre on the PS2.
