Oh dear...look, I don't want to be rude, I understand that you're quite young, so you have usual cockiness of someone in his early 20s, but you should really check facts before posting randomly.

As someone who's twice (and then some) your age and been PC gamer since '95 (computer gamer since early 80s), I was actually there when titles like Doom, Half-Life and Baldur's Gate released (all of those accidently are some of my favourite games) - those were all PC franchises that later got either ports, sequels or, in BG's case, spin-offs on consoles...which console is quite unimportant, since focus of my previous post is that those titles are originally PC IPs.

As for PS2 and Xbox - PS2 was very, very important console for western devs heading into console market, but Xbox was something that PC devs understood quite well and could easily work with, making both PC and Xbox versions of their games without a lot of trouble. 360 built on that, and biggest legacy of Xbox, IMO, is that now (more or less) all consoles are PC-alike.

Gran Turismo 4 did not natively render at 1080i, it still rendered at 480p. 

The original Xbox was capable of rendering natively at 720p at a time when HD televisions were rare (or didn't exist?). No other console at the time could do that. Definitely ahead of its time in that sense.

When the Xbox came out, I watched as they basically copied everything that was popular in gaming at the time. They just added more power. The only thing I'll give them credit for was the internal HDD and the awesome online functions. When I found out that they could download game content, I was pretty impressed. That's about it, though.

Now, the Xbox 360? That was an awesome console! It kept evolving and adding new features right up to the end. Compared to what other consoles were doing when it launched, it truly was next gen! PS3 came along and offered many of its features but you have to give credit to the 360 for doing so much stuff and doing it first. It's a great console, even today!

Edit: Shout out to the CD ripper ability.  I think they had custom soundtracks on the original Xbox.  That's a cool feature that I miss nowadays.  Nobody buys CDs but still, an ability to copy MP3s would be swell.

well this link shows 4 games displayed 1080i https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Turismo_4

and if you want to talk about resolution as being ahead of its time you could put 3 1080p monitors to play gt 5 for you that would be ahead of time?

Was taking a dig at his age necessary to prove your point that he was wrong? You could have just posted a source to prove him wrong.

Given his tone in last part on his post, while being completely uninformed, plus his general tone in the thread...yeah, I say it was absolutely necessary.

Indeed OG Xbox was great. Got one new as a gift, and played it a ton. Still works today. My 7th gen consoles however could not last half a generation.

I probably rented Halo 2 $150 worth then bought the legendary edition and the map packs. One of my top 10 games to this day. Its sad that Halo 3 was such a letdown to me.

Morrowind still the best elder scrolls game imo. Fable also best fable.

It still kind of funny to me that the new brands seems to have the most passion behind it. PS1, Wii and Xbox brands were great pushes in gaming. Hoping the same magic can happen with NX.

Gran Turismo 4 still rendered internally at 480p when outputting to 1080i. Kind of like how you can set an Xbox 360 to output at 1080p when most games render at a lower resolution internally.

Having a system support an internal rendering resolution that wouldn't be mainstream for years is very much a feature that is ahead of its time.