Seriously? Man, I’d say the opposite. That the 360 was the WORST console of the past decade! What age are you, may I ask?

Im afraid this article is very poorly written, and youre arguments are shamefully presented.

Also, the fact that you said ‘yeah it sucks, GET OVER IT’ it your edit makes me cringe. Very unprofessional.

I could make a much better case trying to say the same thing as you, and not come over as a 15 year old wannabee freelance journalist who just got his first pen.

This is why the gaming industry remains a joke to other journalist areas, because of little pricks like you.

xbox sux stupid fag

PS2-3 FTW!!!

Totally agree, the Xbox 360 was the most revolutionary console on this decade when it comes to online gaming. The wii might have been a wiser choice but as an hardcore gamer I just can’t make it count.

The PS2 was great but it was a huge step back from the Dreamcast. No online play in 2001 when we had it since 1999? I’m glad Microsoft picked up where Sega left, Sony ruined everything when it comes to multiplayer games.

The PS3 is just the biggest joke of all time. Remember when they presented Motorstorm and Killzone 2? How it was supposed to be so superior next to the Xbox 360? Turns out it’s not that great and even being released a year after the X360 it lags behind in multiplatform games and in the upcoming exclusives.

Who in their right mind gave this down syndrome patient the okay to write on this website?! The Playstation 2 was by far the console of the decade, they are still making games for the fucking thing, I still have my original fat ps2, AND IT STILL WORKS. If the 360 did anything for this console generation it has made me second guess Microsoft’s intentions as far as their feelings toward consumers. The consoles break CONSTANTLY and they are just now getting them fixed, and lets not forget that I have to pay an extra 100 dollars just to get my xbox connected to my wireless network, and god forbid I have a third party memory card because microsoft wants me to go out and buy their 120gb hard drive for some 120 dollars. I can go pick up and 250 gb sata hardrive and throw it in my playstation for around 100 dollars, do you not see the problem here? Obviously not, I refer you to my prior statement, please take in to consideration the possibility that the author of this article has a slight to medium case of down syndrome.

saw your “edit”, and you are still discrediting the PS2..

the fact that many of its great exclusive games could have been made on the other systems does not change the fact that they weren’t

there’s absolute nothing in your article that supports what you intend, yes the x360 introduced a very solid and feature rich online system to consoles, but that was going to happen even without it, as the PC gaming was going in that very same direction long before the x360

the PS2 was responsable for the biggest change in console gaming, making people see that games aren’t just some mindless thing to kids do to kill time, games can be experiences as rich as any good movie or book ;)

@Joe Jackson

Yeah. It also revolutionized the failure rate! LOL

Fuck, most of you guys are retarded. If you can’t spell or use proper grammar your opinion does not matter on the internet. I’m sorry, I didn’t make the rules, that’s just how they are.

LOL ps2 best konsole all time!!! you suk!!

Lol@ the guy who praised the PS3! Cell processor is a good and revolutionary thing?! SInce when?! It’s not better for it’s time than the Emotion engine or the SNES graphics card.

This article is a joke. All the points you listed have been around waaay before the Xbox ever hit the scene. MP has been going on since dial-up days and has been infinitely more successful on the PC that it ever will on any console. I’m not a PC Gamer (used to be) but this article sounds like someone who was born last decade.

And to the guy who bought a 3DO and a Jaguar… I wouldn’t be boasting about that… especially if you’re trying to represent the 360, lol.

Strangly enough there are a lot of folk pissed off by this article. It’s just *HIS* opinion… although I have to say I’ve got to agree with the best man. Both the PS2 and the Gamecube didn’t exactly bring anything new (or rather daring) to our industry. And to define a decade, you’ve got to have balls and come up wih some new ideas.

The only thing Sony Playstation managed to do was to popularize ideas already in existence. Implementing en populairizing the use of DVD’s, wasn’t anything new… it rather was a logical step from CD’s. Microsoft and Nintendo were probably already busy implementing DVD in their consoles before the existence of the PS2 was known to the public. So there goes that argument…

Then there is an argument stating there are still games begin made for the PS2. That fact is impressive indeed, but by stating this, you are also saying that the console that defined the decade would be that one wich is the most popular one… And by that, you could even zo say that Transformers 2 defined the last 10 years of film. And that my friend, is a statement I can not support.

The Xbox 360 has certainly proven itself to have a huge impact on the gaming industry. Almost every single improvement the PS3 made in comparison to the PS2, were standards Microsoft set with their Xbox and perfected with their Xbox 360. To have such an impact on the strategy of a consolegiant as Sony, is impressive to say the least. And then there is that argument of broadening the market with XBLA. This has been one of the greatest improvements this decade. Finally there once again is room for originality and a fresh air in this rusty industry.

But not only Microsoft defined some of the most important moments in gaming history the last ten years. Nintendo had their share of fame too. While the Nintendo Wii may not be for everyone.. it sure hell is something for most of humanity. Like XBLA is broadened up the market, but in this case in an entirely new direction. Some think this is for the bad of the industry, but it will no doubt be in favor of gaming. While film already has a long history of standardization, the gaming market is still a bit small. And it will no doubt take a long time before it’s as far as film is today, but with the Nintendo Wii it took a great leap into a still uncartain, but exciting future.

And last but not least. The one piece of technology (software in this matter…) I think was the most important for the gaming industry the last decade: Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash! Thousends, maybe millions of people found their way to gamemaking through Flash. While it certainly still isn’t easy to make games with, it really removed that high barrier that was in the way of gamers that wanted to create their own games. Like XBLA, it has broadened the market, and has given space for those with little experience to show commercial big-budget titles games can be great with just an (or simple :)) idea in mind.

So… that is my take on the most defining (and probably best) ‘consoles’ of the decade :).

@EVG, you want good single player experience? Dragon Age, Bioshock, Dead Space, Mirror’s Edge, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Bayonetta, Dead Rising, Braid, Shadow Complex, Oblivion, Fallout 3. There are still a SHIT TON of GREAT single player games.

@CircleofFire,

Braid was on XBLA before it was on Steam. Trust me because I bought the game on both.

Microsoft may not have created DLC, but they are the ones who made it a successful business model and beneficial to the consumer.

XBLA is magical. Yes, digital distribution did exist before but it failed miserably every time until Steam came around. Microsoft made the digital distribution of small and cheap titles something that exists and is extremely successful.

Updates are absolutely great. Having a game that can never be changed or fixed is an issue of the past. The ability to fix glitches and update an entire UI to implement more and more features is absolutely better than not having that ability.

When looking on the whole of things, the Xbox 360 has done more to change gaming that the other systems, in my opinion. It introduced more new features to the console market and then standardized them to make the competition include similar features in their consoles to the point where all systems offer many of the same features.

I also forgot to mention that Microsoft basically recreated the Dreamcast in their vision. So the whole argument about redefining the gaming industry, I mean “the real console of the decade” would be Sega and not so much Microsoft. They just got rich of off someone’s ideas, but in the end the XBOX 360 still uses the same media format as the original XBOX 360. The tables are turning, in my perspective.

This article is a joke. It must be.

Dear Lord… I stop watching the site for 5 fucking minutes and the world ends!!!

A few months ago I had contacted this site about writing some of my own articles from time to time, but some crazy things came up in my life and I had neglected following up on it. Silly articles by Rich make me want to reconsider just so I can post rebuttals to his insanity.

All of your points boil down to features of the Xbox Live service. While it is true that this is intrinsically linked to the Xbox 360, it does *not* make the Xbox 360 the “console of the decade” because Xbox Live has nothing to do with the console itself.

I know you’re not going to want to do this, but humor me for just a moment. Take Xbox Live out of the equation, and evaluate the 360 against the PS3 (or PS2, if you want to). What exactly has the 360, by itself, done for gaming and/or the industry? Not a whole hell of a lot, even when compared to the original Xbox. The original Xbox standardized HDDs in consoles, before the Xbox that was just not done. The 360 came along and F’d that up by making the HDD optional, a decision that still puzzles me.

Now let’s compare it to the PS3. Let’s see, the PS3 made Blu-Ray and Wifi standard – not to mention they learned both what to do and what not to do from MS, and made the HDD a standard feature as well. Then there is six-axis control, which regardless of how you feel about it (I personally think it’s kind of silly, yet it does have some good applications like Flower), is something new to the industry.

The fact is, when you compare the *console* against any of the others, it really didn’t do all that much, other than piss off a lot of people with RRoD (myself included, 3 times and counting). Sure, MS *does* replace the systems for free for 3 years, but it’s a massive inconvenience and while I could be forgiving if it happened only once in a while, it has really gotten to be quite ridiculous.

Now, if the argument you want to make is that Xbox Live is the console internet service of the decade, I think you’ve got a lot of valid points and I’d find little to disagree with. I think Sony’s online offerings, while definitely very good for being free, are still a far cry from Xbox Live, both in features and ease of use. None of this should be surprising though. MS is a software company and Xbox Live showcases their strong points very well. Sony is a hardware company and the PS3 showcases their strong points very well.

Anyway, Xbox Live != Xbox 360.

You’re clearly not an idiot, but you are most definitely bad at expressing yourself and arguing a point.

People are often too quick to call you an idiot instead of trying to understand where you’re coming from. The most frustrating thing about you is not when I disagree with you (which is often), but when you’re touching on a really great point but are not able to articulate that point. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve listened to the Chatterbox podcast, wishing I could call in and defend a point you touch on that Alon and Ara are so quick to dismiss. In fact, were it not for you I’d have probably stopped listening a long time ago. Alon and Ara seem like smart and decent guys, but they agree on almost everything and it would be boring listening to a show just to hear a couple of guys agree with each other all the time.