Well, seeing how the only good games on the Xbox are Halo, and Halo 2, I'm glad they killed it off. Xbox 360, already, has better games than the Xbox.

a.l.e.x59 said: Well, seeing how the only good games on the Xbox are Halo, and Halo 2, I'm glad they killed it off. Xbox 360, already, has better games than the Xbox.

Add to that Morrowind, Ninja Gaiden, Fable, KOTOR 1 and 2 and a crapload of multiplatform games and you would be right, so the xbox actually had lots of great games other than Halo so you are completely wrong :) Also coming out a year sooner than PS3 and Wii is a huge advantage, so I don't think killing off the Xbox was a mistake. It forced Sony to rush their console to market at high production cost, pricing it very high at launch thus hurting it significantly.

M$ clearly did this because they wanted to move on from the failure of the Xbox to the possible success of the 360. Sega tried the same thing when it went from the Saturn to the Dreamcast. Things are working out much better for M$.

The Xbox had a lot of great games .And ,at the end of its life ,it was getting nearly all the western software along the PS3.It missed the japanese games ,but it had some few exclusive japanese games of high quality as Ninja Gaiden or Panzeer Dragoon Orta .

MS did a good thing for themselves killing the machine ,but not so for the userbase .I was quite happy with my Xbox and Cube and suddendly the Cube was as good as dead and the Xbox was dead and even its remaining games werent released in my country by MS .

But the Xbox wasnt going to win the PS2 ever ,and by rushing the 360 and killing the Xbox they managed to accelerate the transition to the next gen and forced Sony to release the PS3 before stipulated and at high cost and with not too much software developed for it .So it was a good move from MS point of view ,if they sticked with the Xbox many users would have waited before rushing for the 360 ....but killing the Xbox so soon meant for them they had to buy a new console and the only one disposable was the 360 .

Too bad that rushing the 360 also meant no HD player ,no BC with Xbox games ,red rings of death etc .

I think the author of this article got it wrong. Sony was able to keep their other consoles in production because it was the market leader and continued to be supported by the consumers which in turn was supported by developers. The Xbox did not enjoy such success and as such Microsoft (and even Nintendo) had to move on to their next generation machines to 'wipe the slate clean'.