Best Xbox console

[Ganoncrotch]

Ruler said:

Original Xbox by a miles stone

 

- it was segnificantley stronger than its competetion, Xbox 360 not much or doubtfull

- the hardware is more reliable

- it had a harddrive only using it for game saving instead of annoying updates

- you could softmod the console and play emulators on it, or making the console region free

- its game libary is better, if you love the PS2 essentially you should love the first Xbox library

Not sure I would agree with that, The Crystal version of the original Xbox were very prone to just stopping reading disks and the way that the original Xbox wasn't set in stone which hardware it had meant there was lots of variants with little things like older types of PC harddrive which again were prone to dying for no reason. off topic though, was the original Xbox the only console which has featured a full 3.5" HDD in it? (with the exception of a original PS2 with network adaptor.)

As for the softmodding, agree with you completely, the original Xbox is a fantastic device for running MAME on a TV or any emulators up to the original Playstation quite well.

Outside of gaming, people have the original Xbox to thank for one thing which a lot on here probably make use of today, XBMC was created to stream content from your PC on a network in your house to the Xbox system, then people thought... hey couldn't you use that to stream content from other places on the internet, and many years later they said... hey isn't XBMC a strange name, we should call this... Kodi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_%28software%29

So yeah, you have the original Xbox to thank for possibly one of the best pipelines of pirated tv shows and movies on the internet... and MS thought they were being so creative with X1 being TV centric. (have to link this... I'm sorry, just love the cuts in the video lol)