Why do you choose Xbox?

[Shadow1980]

It had Halo. Bungie-era Halo was probably my favorite non-Nintendo game series at the time. I'd argue it still is. I played a ton of Halo CE & Halo 2 over at a friend's house, and we had a bunch of LAN parties for Halo CE back in the day. I didn't have my own Xbox until I moved in with one of those friends and he let me use his second Xbox as a hand-me-down.

By time 2007 rolled around and the buildup to Halo 3 started, I had been using Nintendo systems as my primary consoles for nearly two decades. Also at that point, for two generations straight, PlayStation was for me "the console that Final Fantasy is on now" for the most part, and the brand didn't have much appeal to me beyond that. But with the PS3 being too expensive and Nintendo going with the underpowered Wii, that pretty much left the 360 as the go-to option not just for Halo but for third-party games as well. The 360 ended up being my main console that generation.

I switched to the PS4 as my main at the start of last generation, but ever since the Xbox One X came out I've been kinda going back and forth between Xbox and PlayStation as to which "conventional" console was the one I played the most. Right now, most of my backlog is on PS5. With MS taking the "kinda-sorta third-party" approach by putting more and more of their games on PlayStation but not so much the other way around (basically just MLB The Show, which MLB forced them to, and Helldivers II a live-service game). I'm likely to just forgo Xbox entirely next generation.