The best piece of hardware I ever felt I got as far as consoles are concerned was that first version of the PS3. It was sturdy, backwards compatible through two systems, could play blurays.... My xbox360, meanwhile, broke almost immediately (and again about a year later, and now is not working yet again; perhaps I'm just unlucky) and was about the noisiest console I've ever encountered.
That said, my Xbox 360 still got more use lol
Btw, I want to make a special mention for the gamecube. It was also exceedingly well built, the games were great, and it looked wonderful with a controller that some disliked but I'm quite happy with. The original Xbox wasn't too shabby either.







