When they announced Day 1 release of all 1st party games on PC and Gamepass. That is when i realized that Xbox is worthless piece of plastic. I sold my S and never looked back.

The only Xbox console I have owned is the One S which I got really cheap when Target was trying to get rid of them. I got my money's worth, but Rare being a shell of themselves and mostly first person shooters are what never really pushed me to give Xbox a fair chance. Had Rare been pumping out Banjo and N64 like games the past 20 years things would have been a bit different. I play the occasional first person shooter, but it's not anywhere near my favorite genre

I was a day one adopter of both the Original Xbox and Xbox 360, and was an Xbox Live member day one in the UK.

But it was 2009 I think and Microsoft added adverts to the console UI for things like food and clothes. I and many others complained, waited a week to see if Microsoft would walk it back, they didn't so I sold the consoles, games and cancelled my Gold subscription.

I was already starting the lean towards the PS3 anyway as Sony had finally ramped up the output quality of their games and Xbox exclusive games had started to dry up.

The adverts in the UI was the very beginning of the slippery slope of Microsoft trying to nickel and dime Xbox customers. I was furious that not only was I being asked to pay a subscription when on PS3 it was free, but on top of that payment they wanted to show commercial adverts which I found disgustingly greedy.

I was always PS since 1997 but I went Xbox for a bit and had no PS3, even played Skyrim, MW3 and GTA5 on Xbox first. Where they lost me was making the Xbox one a media center and not showing any cool games. I'd have probably stayed if there was Alan Wake 2 and really solid games lime that. I do not like the core Xbox games like Halo or even left for dead, they don't appeal. I don't feel I missed out on much skipping Xbox in the 8th gen and I know I'm not missing anything in the 9th gen as they end up in my PS store front.

I don't know if I was every a "foremost" Xbox gamer. Maybe between 2008 and 2011?

I first invested in the Xbox ecosystem in 2008 with Xbox 360. I quickly consumed all the backward compatible Xbox games I could find: Halo, Morrowind, Splinter Cell, Ninja Gaiden, Halo 2, Psychonauts, Jade Empire, etc. Then I moved on to the 360 library: Kameo, Perfect Dark Zero, Halo 3, Crackdown, Left 4 Dead, Mass Effect, Arkham Asylum, Gears of War, Oblivion, etc. I routinely played Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Halo 3 online with friends. It was amazing.

Looking back, the slow decline started around 2011. Microsoft was still publishing great games like Gears of War 3 and Mark of the Ninja, but the frequency of must-have games began to drop. It also hurt that the company's flagship IP, Halo, began its downward slide around this time.

Still, I wasn't about to give up. While the Xbox One launch was disastrous from a PR perspective, the system actually provided a bunch of great games over its lifespan: Sunset Overdrive, Titanfall, Ori and the Blind Forest, Quantum Break, Forza Horizon 2-3, Gears of War 4, Cuphead, and, finally, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, arguably the best game of the entire 8th generation. There were some underwhelming games, of course: ReCore, Crackdown 3, Minecraft Dungeons, etc. And the Halo brand sank deeper into ignominy with Halo 5.

The wheels really started to come off with the Xbox Series. More delays, cancellations, and closures. More false hopes and broken promises. More overt signs of mismanagement. And, worst of all, fewer and fewer first-party games worth playing. I actually think Halo Infinite was a return to form, but the distribution of that game was very messy. I got the S model for $239.99 in November 2022 and since then I've used it mostly as a backward compatibility machine and to play Sea of Thieves, a game from 2018, with shorter load times. I just don't think the platform has any kind of future.

And it's not even that so many first-party Xbox games are now, or soon will be, available on PS5. It's that I don't really want to play those games, no matter where they are.

They lost me the moment they ditched Games with Gold and pushed Gamepass.

The Xbox One was a solid console and I enjoyed it... Mostly for the enhanced backwards compatibility.
The Xbox Series? Something to be said when in 5 years my Xbox Series physical game collection comprises just 50 games... When my OG Xbox has 200 physical games, which is a console that sold less.

I am primarily a PC gamer, but i do like to use my consoles to drop in a Blu-Ray movie or play a game with my cousin.

They haven't lost me yet, but they're on the verge of doing so. I've played on all four generations of Xbox, but I have a feeling the Xbox Series X will be my last. With MS opting for a quasi-third-party strategy and therefore making Xbox largely redundant, there's a very good chance that any future Xbox Studios games I'm interested in will come to PlayStation at some point, if not at launch then a few months after. I'm one of the nearly half of all Xbox players in the U.S. that also owns a PlayStation, but that era of overlap could come to an end in a few years. If I can get Halo, Gears, etc., on the PS6, then what point is there in spending hundreds of dollars on the next-gen Xbox? Maybe if those big marquee franchises are timed exclusives, like at least a year, I might consider getting the next Xbox, but if it's a simultaneous launch or the PS version isn't too far behind, then that will make me lean towards not getting the next Xbox. What would definitely get me to swear off Xbox would be them abandoning disc drives entirely. No physical, no buy.

I do plan on keeping my Series X, though, as everybody I play online or chat with online are on Xbox. I basically have a social circle on the platform. Hopefully the Series X is supported for a very long time.

The 360 is the only console of them I really enjoyed considering I was the young teenager mindset of playing the hot new shooters with my brother and some friends.
Though, the online, Xbox Arcade games and especially it's controller were all things I truly enjoyed of the experience.

Honestly, there wasn't an inherent problem that made me go elsewhere. Actually, I just wanted a DS and then 3DS because I simply preferred playing Nintendo flagship games than most of what I got years ago.

360's one of my favourite consoles of all time, but the Xbone just never clicked with me as even after they walked back Kinect and the used games stuff, games like Gears 4 and Halo 5 just didn't look that interesting to me compared to their predecessors on 360.

A lot of the games on it I was interested in like Doom 2016/Eternal, Witcher 3, Nier Automata, etc ended up coming out on Switch, and then later I got a PS5, so there's only a handful of Xbone games I can't already play. 

I was considering getting a Series, but once they started bringing their games to PS5 there was just no reason to any more.

That's fair enough, not out of pocket at all.

I am a Playstation/PC Gamer, had Playstation 1-4 & PC since 2002. I had also Wii U and Nintendo Switch , but not a big fan of Nintendo games I bought the consoles for Bayoneta and Xenoblade Chronicles.
The only Xbox Console I bought was Xbox 360 for the exclusives. They lost me because of the lack of exclusives as also Playstation 5 lost me.