360s main selling point is that it was the best console of this generation.

Yeah I know, that gets really irritating...

Xbox Live Gold.

had the best indie support out of any console for a long time, usually got the best multiplats & the online was almost perfect

+Halo/Gears

Isn't it Halo?

agreed.

To play Halo and Gears - thats it probably. 

An online service that is simply the best on consoles.

More games than any other console this gen.

An excellent array of exclusive retail games dating back to 2005 (games in its first year included the excellent PGR3, Crackdown, Dead Rising, Saints Row & Gears of War, thus there is a HUGE back catalogue of games there to catch up on).

Don't get me started on XBLA, its been nothing short of exceptional from day 1, overall it blows the competition out of the water.

It's simple.

It's not a Wii, and it's not a PS3.

You have to pick one of the three, if you're shopping for a game console.

It'll be different for different people, I imagine. For me, it's the exclusive games. I've always been a bigger fan of Xbox exclusives than I have of Sony or Nintendo exclusives. I went out and bought an Xbox for Halo and Fable, even though I already owned a PS2 (I had gotten it as a Christmas gift a couple years before) and had a few games for it.

Oh, and the controller. Transitioning from the SEGA Dreamcast to the Xbox was very easy in terms of controller layout; I never really liked the Playstation symbols on their buttons, and their controllers didn't have proper triggers.

Yes I agree. If theres one thing next gen systems need, it's rumble.