I loved the first Xbox and naturally got a 360. But right there is where they lost me. The console died 11 friggin' times. Whenever the UPS guy came to pick it up, he already knew what was going on. The console also destroyed some of my discs. Microsoft insisted it was because I "moved the console", which I didn't. I was busy holding the controller, I'm not moving the console when I play a game!

Whatever, at some point I didn't send it in anymore. I got myself a PS3 and never looked back. Especially not after the terrible reveal for Xbox One.

They lost me with the Xbox One. They brought me back with gamepass, but after about 4-5 years I ended my sub to that a couple of years ago and sold my Series consoles.

I can play their games on PC, and I'm only really interested in Forza Horizon and Bethesda stuff. The rest of their games I check out when they are heavily discounted, or if they add them to one of the lower gamepass tiers I might dip in for a month and check them out.

I also sold my PS5 at the end of last year and my Switch 2 hasn't been touched since the end of June. I primarily use an ROG Ally with SteamOS for gaming at the moment.

I was more referring to there being about 50 million less Xbox Series consoles than Xbox 360 consoles sold, so around that many people (obviously with some margin for error due to those who owned multiple of either) decided to stop buying their consoles.

"Userbase" perhaps wasn't the best term, but around 85 million people bought a 360 vs around 33 million who bought a Series.

I was already really, really annoyed about having to pay for online play. Then I had an RROD outside warranty. Meanwhile PC had Steam sale with prices that were unheard of on console. And I could play my games at 60 fps and with mouse controls.

With time, the PC advantages have become less important to me and the console advantages more important, so I was planning to go back to Xbox. Too late for that now though. I am looking at buying a PS5 but I would have preferred if Xbox had stayed around.

During the 360. My PC broke down and I didn't feel like building another one. Then I went to a friends house and saw Gears of War on his TV and it looked amazing. So I got an HDTV and 360 soon after that. Towards the end of the gen I started noticing that the games weren't really coming out and they had stalled. I was done with Gears so getting Judgement did nothing for me.

Xbox one reveal was the final straw. I didn't' want to leave the ecosystem but I relied on used games to purchase new ones. I also used it as a way to demo games and then return them if I didn't like them.

The funny thing about that is I got a much better job soon after making a lot more money and went completely digital. I loved not having to get up and switch games. At that point though I had discovered so many great games and IPs that weren't on Xbox I never even considered going back.

As far as owning Xbox hardware, they initially lost me in 2013 at the launch of the XOne, but I finally picked one up when Sunset Overdrive launched with a white XOne, and no Kinect.

I stuck with it for a few years, but when Xbox announced their first party games would launch on PC simultaneously, I made the permanent switch to primarily PC gaming in 2017. I've always played on PC since childhood and had already been begun building my Steam and GOG library, but I always had an Xbox for the likes of Halo, Gears, Ninja Gaiden, and the Western RPGs that Xbox had became synonymous with. Once day and date with PC started happening, I was out. So it's been 8 years now.

I was never a Game Pass player, but I still love so many of the studios and IPs Xbox owns and I still support. Going forward, I'm most likely done with Xbox hardware. I was thinking about the ROG Ally X, but at the price point, I'm better off with my Steam Deck.

Xbox was waaaaaaay better off when they were a rounding error on Microsoft's overall spreadsheet.

The studio closures last year killed the fanboy in me, those this year were the straw that broke the camel's back. Technically, they haven't lost me yet since I still own a Series X, but I have not renewed my Gamepass subscription earlier on this year and I will not buy more Xbox hardware (if there is any); I have reprogrammed myself to be totally indifferent about achievements (playing more Playstation and Switch 2 now- previously I would buy every multiplat on Xbox ) and readied my mind to transition to pc gaming when this generation ends.

The severe mishandling of IPs under Xbox and then the firing of over 9000 Microsoft employees to replace them with AI, all so Satya Nadella could be even richer.

I've never been much the regular Halo type Xbox gamer personally, but nonetheless I guess technically the "Xbox gamers" category can include me since there have been two short-lived points in time during which I preferred the Xbox brand. Of course, that also means there were two break-ups of sorts.

For a few years back in the late 2000s, the Xbox 360 was my primary gaming platform of choice. That was really just because the PlayStation 3 was ridiculously expensive by the standards of the time and initially flopped and the 360 seemed to get the major games I was interested in sooner, or even sometimes exclusively, during that window of time. I think a lot of gamers not enthralled by the domination of more casual games on the Wii were in the same position at the time of just defaulting to the Xbox brand at a time when Sony had briefly become less relevant. Until the cheaper, quieter PS3 Slim came out and we went back to our normal brand preferences pretty quickly.

That said, truth be told I can be a bit contrarian (e.g. still rooting for Dr. Pepper ) and something about the loudness of the PlayStation 5's design just didn't appeal to my brain while the volume of indie games in the Xbox Series showcases in 2020 (e.g. Call of the Sea, The Medium, Bright Memory) did, so I made up my mind early on in this console gen that the Series X was gonna be my default console of choice, at least between the two. I wound up being a tad disappointed by the indie games I'd looked forward to in those showcases, but the real turning point for me was the announcement that Microsoft was buying Activision-Blizzard. See the whole appeal of the Series X to me was this sense of like Microsoft maybe going a different direction (I'll call it the Ori direction), accepting the Xbox brand's third-place destiny with some grace and embracing the more marginal gamer who craves these sorts of "AA" experiences; not being quite so elitist. As such, the sheer greed of the decision to buy the biggest third-party publisher in the business took me aback, especially in a context where Blizzard's then-CEO was in a lot of hot water over a toxic work environment and refusing to leave. That was the point where I decided to stop using the Series X as my default platform on which to play multi-platform games, so as not to reward them so much. I think a lot of people must've felt somewhat similarly, as the negative publicity and legal challenges surrounding the acquisition saga ultimately forced them to basically render it meaningless and in fact to overcompensate by going into full reverse on console exclusivity to such an extent that it seems like now the Xbox brand severely lacks for appealing exclusives and is just directionless, lost. I think what was supposed to be the beginning of a massive comeback for them in this industry ironically wound up being instead perhaps the brand's biggest catastrophe to date.