Happy Birthday!

Was spicing this thread up neccesaru. Yes the ps3 is also a great console but of you want to talk about it being better than the x360 then make a thread about it.instead of sending this thread off topic.

My favourite seventh gen console, and one of the best consoles ever made, hardware issues aside.

I actually happen to own the Halo: Reach limited edition, which is a sight to behold (even though I hate the game, which is extremely ironic), and the console has given me tons of enjoyement. Unique moments, almost every one of them fun (some annoyances here and there, like trying to beat Catherine on hard). Opened up the path to experience some truly awesome games (on top of my head, Gears of War, Red Dead Redemption, the aforement mentioned Catherine, Lost Odyssey, Fallout: New Vegas, Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising, Nier, Vanquish, Braid...and the list goes on) and incentivated me in some instances to play online, which is extremely rare because I favor singleplayer almost above everything.

It had its flaws. The very first model came up with almost nothing (it didn't even have HD output, which is why some might argue PS3 was the very first HD console); the second models and onwards broke way too easy. There's a noticeable lack of proper support after 2011, which is around when Kinect came to life (there were some great things though, like the The Witcher 2 port). Paid online, which neither console of the competition had. And one could say MS's first party isn't as strong as Sony's or Nintendo's. And even so, after everything I've said, I still see the console as a truly marvellous thing. I loved all three consoles during the seventh gen - by far, my favourite gen ever, and I truly think every gen should last as much as the seventh gen did, because it gave us gamers tons of things to enjoy (and some to endure, duh) -, but I can honestly point at the 360 and claim that if I had to be stuck with one on a desert island with electricity, it'd be the 360.

I guess M$ having "Turn 10 Studios" in their fold is appropriate.

Congratulations are on order. Thought MS would release a cheaper redesigned bundle to celebrate.

My fondest memories of it are 2005-2008. After that, it became a shooter/Kinect box I didn't have anymore use for sadly :( The jrpgs and niche games stopped coming out for it.

But wow blue dragon, earth defense force, eternal sonata, katamari, ace combat, infinite undiscovery, project Gotham racing, halo 3, forza 2. Those first 2-3 years were amazing.

It will go down as one of the greatest gaming machines in history.

I find it funny that Microsoft claimed that they found genuinely support the Xbox 360 for at least 10 years. When was the last 1st party Xbox 360 exclusive even released?

In a nut shell, Live Arcade was a vehicle that pushed smaller games similar to titles of previous generations but with modern sensibilities.

Those games being available on a digital marketplace and marketed by MS got them more attention then a bargain bin ever would have.

I feel MS gets crapped on a lot for not working well with smaller studios, but MS literally helped make those style of games popular. So much so that their competitors followed suit.