Xbox 360 is retiring as the king of all game consoles

Thirty years ago when someone mentioned video games among the uninitiated, the common response might have been a reference to Nintendo. But today, it's arguable that “Xbox” has become a symbol for video games.

[Overload]

"But today, it's arguable that “Xbox” has become a symbol for video games."

Lol. What?

[Teh_Leviathan]

The key word there being "arguable."

I suppose you would argue that it's Playstation? Doesn't mean anyone is right or wrong.

[Overload]

What? The Xbox is a game console. Of course it is a symbol for videogames.

[Wh15ky]

I thought the key word was "a".

[naruga]

king of consoles wiht 80 mil sales (half of them rebuys because RRoD) ?? ....while both PS3 and failed Wii surpassed it ?? , while neither in Japan or Europe Xbox has no place at all??...cmon guys 50 mil consoles bought by US and Uk and some dudebro games dont make a console king ...an opportunist lucky slave maybe ..King is and remains PS2 ..either in quality and quantity ..end of story

[johndoe11211]

"I suppose you would argue that it's Playstation? Doesn't mean anyone is right or wrong."

The playstation 2 is the biggest selling console in history. The ps1 is the second biggest selling console in history, the ps3 is the 5 biggest selling console in history. You would be 100% right to say that playstation is the symbol for video games. That's not an opinion, that is a measurable fact. The only way tthose stats would look different would be if you decided to throw handhelds in the mix and then xbox still would not be anywhere near that race, it would be sony and nintendo. Microsoft would be about 600 miles behind them both.

[Kingthrash360]

Xbox 360 was a good console.
That is all.
It didn't even get support the last 3 years.
Fun fact xbox 360 last AAA exclusive was Alan wake in 2011.
Nothing new came for the system it's last years.
That trend continues with the Xbox one...it's last AAA exclusive was sunset overdrive. Qb is a console exclusive but hey let's count that..between sunset and qb there was a year and a half of nothing. And what's next?? The next new AAA ip for xbox one is recore (no date) and scale bound (next year no date).
You can't be king of games if you don't bring games.

[garrettbobbyferguson]

I would honestly argue that Mario is a symbol for gaming. Not because anything is better or has more sales. Simply because of how iconic Mario is. When people think of video games, they think of Mario. Similarly when they think of Disney, they think Mickey.

[Godmars290]

Try laughable.

PS2 launched, went on to sell 150 million versus the roughly 20 each of the competition. Yes, Xbox came in second that gen and fans of the console celebrated that fact, but was that something worth celebrating?

Now there's the 360 versus the PS3 and Wii, and despite releasing a year and a half, though held a significant lead in the US throughout it's life, looking at worldwide sales it only lost ground. It can even be argued that they ended at #1.

If anything this is another instance of the Xbox camp leaning towards delusional. Being defensive if not nationalistic over a US brand.

[Kingthrash360]

Ended at 2 or 3...wii was #1 with 110mil...ps3 and Xbox went 83ish mil.
Fact.
But between ps360 with the head start of the 360 and the 80 percent failure rate causing rebuys, (I bought 3 all together myself ) the 360 sales exceeded it's install base by a few million...making it kinda disappointing to be arguably second.

[donthate]

Godmars290:

I think the impact to the industry as a whole has never been more influenced by a single console. Think about what the Xbox 360 popularized, and what you have today. This is a good read on what the Xbox team fought for and culminated in online connectivity, upgraded software and achievements:

http://www.gamestm.co.uk/in...

[truegamerkt]

Most of the world would say Nintendo or PlayStation. You'd have to be very young to say xbox imo.

[letsgopal]

Wii U become a symbol of Video Games.

I suppose you would argue that it's Xbox? Doesn't mean anyone is right or wrong.

[mechlord]

Thats not how one uses the word...ican't just say ouya is arguably the king of all things gameable...

[II__BONE__II]

So it's arguable that the GREATEST car EVER made is the Volkswagen Beetle.
So I'm right by making that statement? Or stupid for ever implying it,...Like in the article for instance?

[Paulino30]

That is a logical statement Teh_Leviathan.
But remember you're on N4G..
Anything not supporting SONY is the wrong or opinion...lol

[Unspoken]

Too many bronies trying to down play the importantance of the 360 in today's market space. They believe that without competition Sony would have become what they are today on their own, considering they lost so much ground with the PS3, and PSN was a joke, and the draconian DRM debacle and root kits.

Even the Wii surpassed the PS3 in sales beating it so badly, that the blind fanboyism that we see today is the fallout. Only at the very end did the PS3 desperately claw it's way out of last place. Last gen PS3 was certainly the failure out of the two. But you guys go ahead and try to rewrite history. LoL

[rainslacker]

I would argue that Nintendo NES or SNES or has more right to have the title "king of consoles" than the 360, due to the heritage and recognizable reputation it brought to Nintendo...I mean, people did use to say "play Nintendo" a lot. Some people say "play Xbox", although the only time I've ever actually heard that is in media where it's likely paid for.

Sony has more right to it, because they've achieved a lot more than Microsoft has. PS2 alone is the highest selling console of all time, and nowadays, Sony and Playstation is more synonymous with gaming than Nintendo was with the NES.

MS had one generation where they happen to do really well. They made a fine console, and they should be applauded for it. But other than upset what was practically a monopoly, they haven't achieved the same status with the 360 that other consoles have achieved.

@Unspoken

No one is downplaying the importance of what the 360 achieved, or brought to the table...at least not on this part of the comments. They're just saying it doesn't deserve the title "king of consoles".

Edit

I just got the title.

It's like when Leonardo Decaprio yells out "I'm king of the world" in Titanic.

He knows he's not the actual king, but the thrill of achieving something makes him feel like a king.

That's what this is all about. Just some people feeling good that MS actually achieved something worthy of ascension to the monarchy, even if it's only by their own personal standards. It's all about the feels, not reality.

All I have to say though is, "King? I didn't vote him him".

[CrazedFiend]

Somebody needs to pass that bong!

[bouzebbal]

Well deserved retirement, i was specially a fan of 360 but delivered a fierce competition to the PS3.
My favorite 360 games are Lost Odyssey, PGR and DOA4.

[Utalkin2me]

The title forgot 2 words on the end of that, which are "That Breaks".

[Askanison4]

I think it's relevant when you read the article. It backs up that statement with:

"[...] it wasn’t the Xbox 360’s more powerful hardware spec** that ultimately made it the giant it became in game culture, and thus popular culture, but the online community it popularized via Microsoft’s Xbox Live service."

It's hard to hard to argue that Xbox Live didn't dramatically alter the landscape. It had a pretty profound effect on the way we play no matter what platform you're on.

** relative to the original Xbox

[Kingthrash360]

Yeah, and thanks to xbl we pay a subscription for that, where the wii,ps3, wiiu and dreamcast did it for free.
They made online fps games a thing and that in itself is a triumph but they brought a subscription and ads with it.
We should have either online free with ads or gold sub without ads...that's where ms got greedy on us.

[Askanison4]

@Kingthrash360

A service like LIVE wouldn't exist without that money behind it in the beginning.

[Pogmathoin]

PSN is only becoming more reliable since, you guessed it, paid for it.....

[donthate]

Trash360:

I gladly pay the fee, considering the improvement to the service compared to say PC and the free monthly games are nice. Sony had to do it too, otherwise they couldn't compete otherwise and in many ways they still can't.

[Angels3785]

The only thing laughable about that was the xbox had "better hardware spec"

That guy is working off old news back wen the cell was not very well understood.

The ps3 consistently had better graphics near the end of it's life there is nothing that looks like uncharted Killzone or the last of us on Xbox 360.

And there are plenty of best graphics awards to prove that.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Nobody is arguing the relevance or at least the paradigm shift that XBL started, but saying the Xbox 360 is retiring as the king of all consoles is just lmao

[gangsta_red]

@Thrash

It's obvious now that Sony only offered online free to combat 360 and entice players to get their system that came out a year later.

That is why not long after they offered a Plus paid option and now mandatory paid online.

[mechlord]

Thats a fallacy though. The original claim (the one he cannot directly back up) has nothing to do with this second claim that he backs up. You keep that chain up and after 10 unrelated claims you throw a sentence that seems to make it all fit together..

Classic Jedi trick for the weak minded.

[cell989]

yeah between online pay to play and horse armor micro-transactions yeah they sure changed the landscape

[Godmars290]

"A service like LIVE wouldn't exist without that money behind it in the beginning."

That only begs the argument that maybe it shouldn't have existed. For the life of the 360 MS felt that they had to attach other free and paid services to XBL to try and justify it. Make money back on its investment and start up. MS had someone on Netflix's board of director who worked an exclusivity deal, but Netflix itself only really took off once that deal was done. For the effort Xbox brand saw no benefit.

[Unspoken]

They did it for free and you got what you paid for. All the services you mentioned were completely inferior and riddled with bugs.

[rainslacker]

It became popular in pop culture because MS paid a crap ton of money to have it inserted into pop culture. pop culture isn't created by mass migration to new products because people are enlightened to seek out such things, it becomes pop culture, because the media tells us that's what's popular, and what we're supposed to like. At least that's what pop culture is nowadays. That's the best conclusion I can come to to figure out why so many music artists are popular today, because 9 out of 10 of them have absolutely no talent.

[Utalkin2me]

@Pogmathoin

No, thats what you fanboys like to think. I had no online issues while playing on the PS3, all the while first party exclusives all had dedicated servers. And on top of that it was free.

[MRMagoo123]

"Xbox 360 retiring as last like the original xbox"

[Khaotic]

He was more talking about the introduction of the party chat feature on the 360 at launch

[Sunny_D]

Party chat feature came later in the 360's lifetime not at launch.

[Wallstreet37]

What was "Party Chart" did it show me where all the parties were happening at any given time in the neighborhood? lol I would love a "Party Chart"

[Khaotic]

@wallstreet I'm amazed how you never get tired of being a raging fangirl.

[Khaotic]

@sunnyd my bad the 360 had that feature when I bought one but that was late 2006 or early 07

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Half weren't rebuys they were warranty replacements which are not sales.

[thejigisup]

Millions have repurchased the console, glad that "king" is gone and past us

[ziggurcat]

No. It took a lawsuit for them to admit that there was a problem, and it only became replaceable via the warranty after that (which was a few years into the console's lifespan). Countless consoles had to be repurchased prior to that happening.

[Tsar4ever01]

The "King of all consoles "!? He said? Ps2 's 155 million + in life time sales says your full of it, buddy! And on top of that the Ps3 even caught up and surpassed them in life sales before all current gen consoles were out. That's right, Sony ended last gen in 2nd place in sales world wide. The only thing the 360 is really king of is having the highest Hardware Failure Rate in all history of console gaming. But to be fair I give MS their due for this much though, making on-line gaming a thing and being the 1st out from the transition from standard definition gaming to gaming in HD. And it's XB live set the standard from which we all online game nowadays. But calling it the console king is way to much credit. This writer must be living in another universe. A universe of No Man's Sky. Lol!! Oh by the way xbots just might never get to play that.

[DixieNormS]

Shut up fan boy. It's like me saying you'll never get to play sunset over drive. I'm getting sick of this site.

[Wallstreet37]

Dixie....

Even millions of xbox fans wont get to play "Sunset Over Drive" nor care too given its abysmal sales lol

[meche334]

The 360 bought parties and downloadable content and lots of other things that shaped the gaming industry

[Gol3m]

Sunset overdrive is trash

[Monster_Tard]

@Wallstreet37

Well it was gave away with GWG this month, so I don't know about that
.

[ashcroft]

That's not entirely wrong. How many parents refer to a game console as an Xbox. Similar to how everything was called Nintendo back in the day.

[MRMagoo123]

none that I hear , most parents know the difference now days.

[rainslacker]

When I watch some modern TV, it would appear all of them. But you pay enough money, and you can get actors to say anything. Outside of that, I've never heard a game console, contextually speaking, as "going to play Xbox". I'm sure it exists, but it's hardly on the same level that it was for Nintendo, or even PlayStation. "Go play Nintendo" has waned in more recent times, but I still often hear, "Go play PlayStation". However, the more common vernacular I tend to hear is "Go play some games", as it actually always was even for Nintendo and Sony.

Keep in mind, most of the parents today that I imagine fall into the age range you're speaking of, grew up in the PS1 and PS2 era. The clueless one's may refer to it as Xbox if their kids are lame and actually speak like that on a regular basis.

[trooper_]

Sorry but the PS2 was the king of all consoles.

[Fatal-Aim]

Lmao!

The 360 came in 3rd place (Wii, PS3, 360), as it managed to lose it's 2nd place position to the PS3. Not to mention that it was only good for FPS and Racers. That doesn't sound like king to me; that sounds like a VERY selective market. Why do you think it did so horribly outside of the UK and NA?

[BIGBOSS08]

yea that line literally had me laughing!

[meche334]

@KingThrash360 Gears of War Judgement, Forza Horizon, Forza Horizon 2, Halo 4, The Witcher 2,

[XanderZane]

No different then Atari, Nintendo (NES, SNES, Wii), SEGA (Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast), Sony (Playstation), etc.... Pretty much any gamer already knows this.

[Big_Game_Hunters]

Seriously though, PC has been the symbol for games for a while now.

[ScamperCamper]

Idiotic premise. Yeah, RROD and broken burnt in rings on games and movies. Multiple dead Xbox 360 consoles. How many did you have to return? Most people more than one. Sure, yeah, amazing quality and reliability. Such a great console. First ever to scratch out discs to make then unplayable! Now that's a great slogan. It's the king. It's the king of breaking and king of couriers like Purolator because of all the business Microsoft gave them with all the returned consoles. What. A. Joke. Grab some self respect and call the Xbox 360 was it really is.

[Next_gen_2015]

@Kingthrash360

Alan wake was the last AAA exclusive on the 360? Ever heard of Halo 4 or Gears of war judgement?

Please don't post again...

[Foehammer]

Well done 360

10 1/2 years was a great run.

Love the support it got right to the end as well as it got top releases along with the X1, Forza Horizon 2, TitanFall, TombRaider, etc

I think the 360's run was more inline with what ppl want when they spend top dollar on a console...to know they are the cream of that manufactures crop for, in this case, 8 years (before the X1 came out).

The sales of over 85m consoles in just 40 countries is also outstanding.

The Quarterly Financial Statements from top publishers like Activision, EA and Ubisoft consistently showed the 360 accounted for the lions share of their game sales so it's clear the functioning install base of the 360 was the biggest for 3rd party publishers.

Hail to the King Baby

[Teh_Leviathan]

Right?
And with continued software and technical support, as well as games still being released for it and servers remaining online, it could last another few years.

Great to hear.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Don't get too fuzzy calling the 360 the cream of the manufacturing crop. It had no blu ray and the highest fail rate of any console.

[donthate]

Yeah, but it also had the best warranty, and customer service of any console. It also had an incredibly designed architecture, that without raw power could beat the PS3 in game performance and still cost less. The Xbox 360 not only introduced a lot of innovation we take for granted today, but it also did it with value.

When the original Xbox launched it was the industry's laughing stock, and by the Xbox 360 it was a juggernaut. Today, as a brand it is side by side with Playstation.

[Sunny_D]

No wifi at the beginning, backed the wrong hd format with a useless paperweight add-on screwing customers over....

[Wallstreet37]

Donthate....

Stop lying..... Best warranty? Here goes fanboys selective memory and revisionist history. No it had a warranty that didnt include RROD, customer service and a company that didn't want to acknowledge the RROD fiasco or give ppl new xboxs after they died. Stop the bs the only reason Xbox 360 warranty got better was after "gamers" litigated against Microsoft because Microsoft turned a blind eye to RROD and said it wasnt an issue. They did nothing out of good faith but because a judge told them they were liable and had to remedy the situation. Best customer service lol yeah because you say so right? Smfh.

[badz149]

@donthate

Yup...give it to fanboys to pour praise for a company releasing a broken product just because the company had to offer extended warranty just so their product is not forced to be pulled from the market! Bravo fanboys!

As a brand they are side by side? LOL "side by side" is the last appropriate word for something lagging 20mil units behind in just over 2 years!

[Metfanant]

@donthate

Let's be realistic..it only had that "Best warranty" because MS was absolutely FORCED to provide that because of how God awful the hardware was in the initial design

[Unspoken]

How did the HD format screw customers? Lol It was an add-on, optional, you didn't have to buy. It was not mandatory like PS3 Blu Ray addition inflating the price and putting focus on media over games, thus truly screwing over the customer.

Totally agree with the best warranty and extending for everyone so it was a non issue. I don't know anyone who went and bought another one during that time when they had the warranty active.

[Sunny_D]

@unspoken

Then with your logic, how could the PS3 screw someone over when it's ALWAYS optional to buy a console. The blu ray has been there from day one and the customer knew what they were getting. Hell, many people bought the PS3 because it was the cheapest blu ray player at the time. Let's not forget the benefits of having blu ray with its 50gb disk allowing developers to fit their games on one disk unlike the 360's outdated dvd. NOW the Xbox one has a blu ray drive for a reason.

Oh, you're talking about the extended warranty MS had no choice but to give in response to all the lawsuits their asses were going to face for releasing such horrendous hardware?

[rainslacker]

@Unspoken

MS including DVD instead of an HD format actually screwed over everyone, regardless of if they brought the system or cared about an HD format.

The DVD format was already strained for capacity before the generation even started, and many games on all the systems were held back to accommodate for the lack of space. Just things like HD video streams from the disc were not possible on the 360 due to the transfer rate. Audio codecs went unsupported on the 360, while they were included on the PS4 versions, or they were left out altogether. All hail MS for not forcing an expensive technology on us right?

No, MS HD add on didn't screw anyone over unless they actually brought it, but they offered something that some people would want and made it optional. Sony's inclusion did increase the costs of the system, but it was a cost that was necessary due to the need for higher storage capacity, so it was beneficial. I mean, your reasoning would suggest that Sony including a DVD drive in the PS2 was also anti-consumer, despite increasing the cost of the console, because DVD wasn't exactly cheap at PS2's launch. But it was necessary, because 4 disc CD games were becoming too commonplace.

[DarXyde]

donthate,

Some fundamental disagreements.

As far as the best warranty, I suppose that is technically correct, but it was really about saving face. Not saying there's anything wrong with it; Sony did it as well during the PSN hack. They went above and beyond to make amends. In either situation though, I do believe you're giving these companies too much credit.

"Incredible" architecture is a stretch. It had the simplest architecture of the HD consoles, but one can argue Wii's architecture was better since it was familiar. That is, the architecture closely resembled GameCube's. Not really anything incredible about Xbox 360's architecture. I thought PS3's was, though a nightmare at first, more interesting. We never really got to see its "full" power since one of the SPEs was inactive to compensate for defect yield and one ran in reverse for the OS. And as far as game performance goes, it was my understanding that, once developers really got around to understanding the CELL architecture, it was better, open world games withstanding.

Lastly, a brand side by side with PlayStation? Hmmmm, not exactly. Under a microscope, sure, but on a macro level, there isn't much in the way of competition. I'm not sure PlayStation or Xbox ever really found the acclaim that Nintendo has in terms of brand recognition. When you send a fax, you "Xerox" it. Searching, we "Google" it. People still use "Gameboy" to identify handhelds. That's power in the brand. Halo has become a very well known name. I think Halo is actually a better known name than Xbox, if you can understand that.

If you need evidence of brand strength, Xbox is synonymous with online gaming, Nintendo with handheld gaming, and PlayStation with...gaming. Microsoft can be considered comparable in a compartmentalized sense, but the overarching gaming brand is PlayStation.

Not to take away from Xbox 360. It was a great console and was my main console last generation...until the first Uncharted came out, that is. After that, it was just crazy momentum. To each, their own of course. The Xbox 360's success, in reality, is due to launching a year early with the superior version of a lot of multiplatform games early on (from the sixth generation as well) and being cheaper. Even then, the failure rate of the Xbox 360 coupled with the eventual onslaught of PS3 exclusives, included Blu-Ray drive in the PS3, free online gaming of the PS3, discount program with PlayStation Plus, and even game sharing of the PS3 helped it become a great console. Was PS3 the favorite? Completely debatable. I know people who liked their Xbox 360s more. In America, I'd say Xbox 360 won last generation in sales and attach rates. PS4's success is a lot like the Xbox 360s where they came out strong as the rival manufacturer hurt themselves considerably and must now spend the generation playing catch-up. But here's the thing: Xbox One is not selling poorly, but it's not holding a candle to PS4 either. They launched within about a week's difference versus a year last time. Despite the very common knowledge that Xbox One supports 16TB external storage, has no DRM, is backwards compatible, has a better online structure, and is now cheaper than the PS4, it's still being largely outperformed.

Why do you think that is? Simple: brand strength. You say they stand comparably, I say that's optimistic on your part. PlayStation is simply a more powerful brand. Historically, console power yields a negligible effect on sales, so I wouldn't say it's because PS4 is more powerful.

[DarXyde]

Sunny_D,

Partly true. Remember the 20GB PS3 at launch that didn't have Wi-Fi? As for backing the wrong format, I think, if Sony hadn't put Blu-Ray in the PS3, we'd be using HD-DVD. Player/discs were cheaper than Blu-Ray. Microsoft's mistake was using HD-DVD as an optional add-on so it didn't have the necessary support.

[Utalkin2me]

Not only was it a POS that was thrown together. It had no blu ray, no wifi, no hdmi, only a 20 gig HDD.

The best warranty comment was funny. It wasn't until the government stepped in and did something about it before MS even offered to extend the warranty, on the biggest failure rate of all time on consumer electronic product.

[JackStraw]

I'ma let you finish but PS2 is the greatest game console of all time.

[styferion]

well PS2 is the uncontested King... I'm more of a Nintendo and PC guy but even I can see that.
but it's ok, this lets people know who's hardcore fanboys

do you guys even get anything from MS for being such a loyalist?

[jerethdagryphon]

Yea i dont see it king of what. Shooters maybe . not sales not quality not ips ms have used the same core ips since thecoriginal xbox halo fable forza gears. Ip wise its sony. Sales wise sony build wise nintindo

Fun fact first party new ips for ms this gen ....i actually cant think of any off the top of my head sony has at least 2 dc and dreams

[Unspoken]

Yes, it shows those who believe PS2 was king as well.

But if you go back further in history you'll notice Nintendo takes that mantle.

Go ahead and keep the hypocrisy going.

[rainslacker]

If you're a Nintendo guy, don't fret. Nintendo could arguably have a couple consoles which could be considered king. Nintendo, despite not being as prolific in recent years(Wii aside) still has some major clout and name recognition when it comes to how people view gaming in general.

I'm more a Sony guy, but even I can't deny what Nintendo has achieved, or how well liked some of their consoles were, and how some of those consoles deserve the title more than the 360 does.

Honestly, a Nintendo and Sony fan arguing about which would be king would actually be enjoyable, because there are so many points which are justifiable. It wouldn't be most people laughing at the notion that it's king, but trying to argue over which one is more king worthy.

[styferion]

well Nintendo did help shaping early gaming landscape until it became what it is today so yes, in terms of achievements I do think Ninty has the top spot, although I still think in terms of overall popularity and games the top spot goes to PS2

[DarXyde]

I can honestly say that I really respect your comment for being able to step outside of yourself and recognize what's basically indisputable (though I'd forgive the argument that SNES is king because it's phenomenal, but if we're talking about eras, I'd say PS2's value is indisputable).

You have to understand where I'm coming from: I'd say PC/Nintendo is the best combination possible since you can play multiplatform titles at premium quality AND get the most exclusives. Your choice is awesome. That said, seeing you agree that PS2 is king says a lot. It really does.

[Mystickay86]

Alright, get your head out of Xbots shiny metal ass.

[zodiac909]

Hail to the red ring.

[kayoss]

"Love the support it got right to the end..." What? Microsoft Xbox 360 exclusives game were non existent 5 years ago. The only thing released for it were from 3rd party.
If you compared this to the ps3, Xbox 360 was a embarrassment when it came exclusive support.

[Foehammer]

ROFL

You don't enjoy 3rd party?

So you didn't buy or count Bloodborne? lol

Interesting your choice of the word "embarrassment", MS more than tripling it's install base is a huge sense of pride and accomplishment. Bit loosing 80m of your fanbase PS2 to PS3, that fits your adjective perfectly.

It's also directly related to the subject of this article, the 360's success.

The gamers chose with their wallets, #dealwithit

I'm going to suggest that your adjective also works well when describing a product selling similarly to another product but only requiring 1/3 of the countries.

[kayoss]

I enjoy 3rd party games but guess what? The competition had that too. Not only did the ps3 had 3rd party support til the end, it had first party support as well. Xbox360 had only 3rd party. You love the support but the support didn't come from Microsoft it came from some where else.
So your blaming Sony because they decide to have their system in more countries right? Let me enlighten you a bit here. Why didn't Microsoft make their system available in more countries? Because they know it wouldn't sell. Look at japan, look at Europe and you will find your answer. Your precious Xbox was great in Europe, but the x1 lost entire country of supporters and this is just two years in to its life cycle.
I'm not going to deny that the x1 is not successful, it's doing great. However, when you sit there and claim that Xbox 360 was supported til the end, you're just lying to yourself. Because I can say the same for ps3 and Nintendo, but what make them different from Xbox 360? They had 3rd party and first party support til the end.

[Rookie_Monster]

Welcome back Foehammer. Totally agrees. X360 was the best console ever for me.

[killer_goat]

Yet ps3 kicked it's ass I'm every way. The only thing that the 360 won was the most unreliable console in history.

[Foehammer]

Really/s

Because Digital Foundry says different from 2005 to present:

http://www.eurogamer.net/?t...

Perhaps you should ask yourself why the PS install base went from 160m PS2 to 80m PS3?

While your at it, ask yourself why Xbox went from 24m to 85m+?

In case you didn't notice, both questions are connected, Sony's loss of 80m was MS gain.

PS3 was king of losing it's fanbase only.

And the beat part, the 360 did it with just 40 countries compared to the 120+ of it's competition. lol

[killer_goat]

@foehammer you still playing that old countries tune lol I'm not going to explain it again to you. You can't grasp the concept. Anyway why have xbox 360 numbers dropped from 80 million to 16 million xbone players?

[killer_goat]

Seriously trollhammer be quiet you are making yourself look even more stupid

[Utalkin2me]

@Foehammer

You mean this kind of support it got in the last 3 years?

http://n4g.com/news/1311502...

85m consoles in 40 countries all the while it being the king of the worst electronic failure in history @ 50+%. Hail to the 3rd place king indeed.

[killer_goat]

Troll hammer has been spewing this country crap for ages now. Don't listen to him he hasn't got a clue. I can't wait to hear his answer on why a user base of 80 million xbox 360 players dropped to 16 million xbone players lol

[Drake714]

thanks for introducing fees to play online with this console

[ScorpiusX]

Please stop acting like it was the end of the world, when it was introduced .
The way i see it if not them someone else would have introduced it, bet it would be okay if it had been the other guys right .

@STREET defend what that if they hadn't done it someone else would have , it was going to happen think most people are upset it wasn't sony or Nintendo but MS.

[ThePope]

You're 100% right. For proof all you need to do is read the support PS4.5 is getting from the hardcore on this site. They're basically making the current PS obsolete and people are saying thank you. HAHA

[Chug]

Pope, I'm not sure if you know what obsolete means. It will still be relevant, get over it.

[ThePope]

@Chug

part of the definition is "out of date". The PS4 faithful this gen talk about nothing but performance. If you don't making something out of date to people who seem to only care about performance you're fooling yourself.

[yeahright2]

One sarcastic comment is acting like the world's ending?

[Wallstreet37]

Ahhhh i see the typical defense force is back at it again defending. Microsoft should send you and pope a monthly check as good as you try to cover up, defend and shine that light oh so bright lol hahahaha

[Muzikguy]

@ThePope

For the record I get slammed with disagrees every single time I post something negative about the PS4K. It's a bad idea and bad for the industry IMO. Also believe that if it indeed does happen, MS will be right behind them with an upgrade of their own. It's business. Just like Sony charging for online because MS was.

[Gol3m]

@muzikguy

You're right it's a bad idea but it's going to happen. And you're also right MS will follow again

[Stereotypical_gamer]

The white 360's were also the first console to come with a self-destruct button. Ahh Microsoft, innovators of the console industry /s

[Tsar4ever01]

Self destruct button, hah! That just made spit out some of my fried rice just now! Lol!

[WellyUK]

That was why Live was 10000 times better than PSN...

[Wallstreet37]

No lets make it 1,0000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000 better lol gtfo That mantra has been outdated for the last 8 years or so lol Live hasnt been better than psn for years!!!!! as a matter of fact lately PSN has been better and more reliable.

[WellyUK]

Well nah now you pay for PSN... It has improved a lot since ps4 launch it's now the more stable service recently. Because we pay for it and they can actually get better servers and services. Live was better than PSN through most of the 360's life span. You don't think that then your stupid and blinded by pure idiocy. I had more issues with PSN in 1 year than i did in 7-8 of Live.

[Unspoken]

Nice my experience is totally the opposite. PSN has been a nightmare compared to XB1. Now you have to pay for the inferior service because Sony isn't turning your money into better infrastructure and you are mad that Microsoft is doing it right with the better service. You guys are so jaded from last gen. It's time to get over it.

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

That isn't the case presently, unless you're ignoring the fact that Xbox Live suffers some sort of issue at least once a week... When was the last time you haven't seen someone ask "Is there something wrong with Xbox Live?"

Before 12:01 am Sunday 4/30/2016 it will have at least one "social & gaming" related issue.

[2pacalypsenow]

The original Xbox in 2003 did that not the Xbox 360

[Tobsesan]

OG Xbox did that, thank sony for following the trend.

[ashcroft]

Fees were introduced with the original xbox, not 360. You're also acting like subscription models weren't a thing before. Ever heard of Eve Online? Or World of Warcraft?

I agree that online fee to play online is stupid, but don't act like online fees were originated from the xbox.

[DopeTech]

WOW xbox 360 made a lot of you fanboys salty! Thanks for introducing fees? More like thanks for making the best online service ever in gaming, and It still is today.

[Gol3m]

Nope.....

I feel that N4G needs to introduce a big rubber stamp that says 'in my fanboy opinion' that has to be applied to such ludicrous comments as above

[ITPython]

Don't forget the now common practice of timed exclusivity deals with multiplat games (DLC and whole games). M$ really renovated with that one, funny thing is now its biting them in the butt since very few third party publishers are willing to take the sales suicide and have exclusive titles or DLC on XB1 first.

[MachuchalBrotha316]

Great title..haha

[cyber_daemonx]

Yup, clickbait at its finest.

[AmUnRa]

The king of all gameconsoles??

No just no! The king of all gameconsoles was the PS2, nothing has beaten the PS2 and the 360 was NEVER the king of all. Even the PS3 was a better gameconsole than the 360, and W.W. it sold better than the xbox360.
Gamingsupport from Sony with first party games for the PS3 was outstanding, just like the support for the PS2 and PS1. And now the firstparty support for the PS4 is geting better and better, i mean; just look at this year, woooow.
The last years of the xbox360 the amount firstparty games from microsoft for the console was really bad, i mean really really bad. Yeah, there was a shitstorm off kinektgames, and the normal rince and repeat halo forza and Gears. So yes it was really bad.
So, NO, the 360 was in now way the king of all gamesconsoles.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Ps3 was trash until it's final years

[Chivas11]

And the 360 was thrash in its final years

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

It was trash because the people like you and the media were trashing it. It'a like saying the xbone is trash because it has the same dark aura and worse. Truth is, the PS3 had better tech. MS even needed to update their hardware with built-in wifi and HDMI.

Not only that but it had solid games like Uncharted, Motorstorm, and R&C Tools of Destruction. It was just releasing games at a slowet pace because of the Cell proccesor and devs figuring out, leading to 360 also have the advantages with 3rd party games.

Ever since Infamous 1 and LBP came, the latter being GOTY of 2008 for innvovation, it was an unstoppable releasing influential games like U2 and Demon's Soul success, and the arrival of PS+, while Xbox slowed down focusing on Kinect crap and the same old ips.

The Xbox 360 was a hell of a console and made online MP popular, at the cost of saturating the market with FPS but still. It also brought one of my top series Gears of War. However, it blows my mind how anone could say it was better than the PS3 objectively. Ok we all have opinions and as biased as you are, I don't blame you for your preference. But in truth, the PS3 had more games, and more tech. And in the end, it outsold the 360

Talk about starting from the botton and now we here!

[JackStraw]

You've never heard the phrase "it's not how you start, it's how you finish" have you? And the 360 finished terribly.

[ashcroft]

Kinect ruined the 360 in it's final years. So what's your point?

[DreadGara]

Spark can you retire along side the 360, and take the Xbone with you while your at it?

[Sunny_D]

Except for the fact I was playing games like Warhawk, RFOM, Motorstorm, Uncharted 1, MGS4, LBP at the beginning of the PS3'S years.

[TwoForce]

Don't be a goddamn arrogant. The 360 was good console, but it's not Amazing like PS2 was.

[Realms]

The 360 was trash from the beginning with the highest failure rate ever MS was so greedy that they wanted to beat Sony to the market even at the expense of the consumer resulting in such a failure never before seen in consoles. And yet Sony still managed to out sell the 360 world wide leaving the 360 in last place.

[game4funz]

This year??? What exactly? I'm still waiting. Uncharted for sure but then what?

[killer_goat]

It's called Google. Try using it

[AG6686]

Haha sorry but no. The king is the PS2 selling 160M units. 360 didn't even sell more than the PS3 which outsold it by a few million even though it was launched after and is still selling due to it been a Blu Ray player. 360 can only do dvd. You go into any game or pawn shop and look at all the 360s they have in stock..
I was in a local pawn shop last week and they had about 70 360s and 4 PS3s. People keep valuables and get rid of junk. No doubt 360 did OK because it was a cheap console, but king? Please the damn controller needed AA batteries

[NotAFanboyyy]

Despite being outsold by the PS3, didn't the 360 still sell more games than any system last gen?

[Sparta07]

@ fanboyyy, Cool..... soooo... sales matter now!? Lmao
seriously would you guys make up your mind!!!!!

[Kemo_Spear]

@Fanboyyy, (such an ironic name). While we sit and wait for you to produce the official numbers. Even if what you say is true, there is a issue with those numbers. The 360 was known for gouging rings into the CDs if you even sneezed on it. Hence, Junior would throw a fit until mommy or daddy replaced the CD with a new one (and odds are, the ring would happen again). See, with MS, the devil is in the details, especially when it comes to numbers. Like the RROD fiasco, how many new units were bought because of this issue? Again, the devil is in the details, and you just seem to ignore that.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Where are your official numbers for PS3 SALES?

[WeAreLegion]

Where are yours? All sources say PS3 took the lead years ago.

[joeorc]

Funny..how you keep doubting the numbers. .here 2012

PS3 was already over 70million world wide. And the Playstation Move already sold over 15 million units..but yet people act like Kinect was a giant success but how playststion move was a Flop.

http://www.sie.com/en/corpo...
[Tokyo, November 16, 2012–Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that the cumulative sales of the PlayStation®3 (PS3®) computer entertainment system reached a milestone of 70 million units*1 worldwide as of November 4, 2012 – less than six years after the platform launched in 2006. SCE also announced that sales of the PlayStation®Move motion controller surpassed 15 million units*1 worldwide as of November 11, demonstrating continued growth and momentum of the PS3® platform.]

So right now from 2012 to now the PS3 has still been selling averaging over 8 million+ a year and Microsoft just stopped Production on the Xbox360 completely..while Sony is still in production and continues Playstation 3 production right along with the PS4!

So no when it comes to consoles.

The True king is
Nintendo
Followed close by Sony
Followed by a distant 3rd with Microsoft.

*[Nintendo Has 5 systems in the console market.]

*[Sony has 4 systems in the console market.]

*[Microsoft now has only a single system in the console market.]

You cannot be the king of a market with only one single system. In that market when your next companies in competition with you have more than twice your number in systems they each offer in the same market vs's just your one system at a time.

Mictosofts like the pufferfish in the console market..it balloons its single system to look bigger than it really is in the market..now nothing wrong with that, but it is the truth.

Of course I get a disagree, but what I pointed out is a fact!
Xbox one is one single system that Microsoft only offers to consumers..not different Ski's of the same platform..I am talking about other systems offered in the same market that is not just a Xbox one..Microsofts xbox360 is such..but Microsoft has now ended production.

While Nintendo has.
3DS, 3DSXL, 2DS, DSIxL, WiiU
Sony
Playstation 3, PSVita, PSTV, Playstation 4.
Microsoft..well Xbox one with xbox360 only having what's left of production.
I know its not what some gamers has wanted to hear , but its the truth!

[DigitalRaptor]

Who cares? The Xbox 360 has hugely inflated numbers because of people re-buying it thanks to RROD and other issues. Xbox is not as popular as anyone boasting 360 install base figures suggests because a huge chunk of those are neither active nor working machines.

XB1 will be lucky to sell 50m units this gen based on current projection, ~30m below 360's final recorded figures.

[nevin1]

King of all consoles?

[MainstreamGamer]

More like the Jester of all console s.

[DigitalRaptor]

I know. PS2 was more iconic, successful and memorable, and didn't fizzle out support because of a gimmick. No Xbox console will ever be the king of game consoles.

[jznrpg]

I sold my 360 long ago because the lack of games for the past 5 years, not even close to King.

[Mr-Dude]

Maybe more like peasant?

[CPTN MITCHELL]

Jajaja the king of all console yeah right

[NotAFanboyyy]

Loved the 360. Loved the PS3. Last gen was amazing. My favorite console to this date is still the N64. That system brought me and my friends together so many times along the years. We still played it even in college. Ironically, it was the last Nintendo console I owned. Once I bought a Dreamcast and PS2 I could only afford one more console and decided to go with the OG Xbox over the Gamecube after playing the original Halo, which brought me back to my N64 days of 4 player splitscreen but we turned it up a notch to 8 player LAN parties. Ahh memories.

[Wotbot]

The best last gen console, a perfect design, even if it did get a little hot.

But Uncharted 2 defined the generation for me.

[NotAFanboyyy]

Definitely one of the best games last gen and highlight of the series for me and many. Looking forward to #4 soon.

[AmUnRa]

A little hot??? Really a little hot, that is the understeament of the Year.
A shitload of RROD xbox360 tell a hole diferent story. A little hot, o boy, Looool.

[joeorc]

@JackJoyce
[ What about the problems PS4 faced with 2 different means of letting you know your console is shit. Red line of death, and pulsing blue light of death. Looks like that 40 million is inflated to me]

You cannot be that silly trying to imply that the PS4 has anywhere near the well known above 50% failure rate with the xbox360 than the PS4's failure rate?

Because if you are, you are quite mistaken.not by just a little but by a grand canyon size gap in failure rates % between the two.
the difference being.

When the 1st 11 million xbox360's produced at the time had a 100% fault failure rate due to a design flaw..and even Robbie Bach at the time openly said such..that was the very 1st production run of the xbox360..it was not a matter of "if" it was going to fail.in a short a matter of time it was just only a matter of when. That's why in 1 to three years your xbox360 dirring the 1st and 2nd run production had over a 50% chance to fail in the 1st 1 to 3 years. Later in short order Microsoft made sure that was fixed..but not after paying over 1.8 billion in fees associated with warranty and design Fix's

The PS4 has no such a command leading fault tolerance failure on that magnitude.. No other game console has since than for good reason.

[LuckyChamCham]

Nope, Ps2

[Chivas11]

But when the PS4 retires it will replace it as the king of all consoles

[Kallisti]

This article was obviously written by the King of all fanboys.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

It truly was among the greatest consoles. Right up there with the NES, SNES, PSX, PS2!!!

[nevin1]

What an insult to NES/SNES/PS1/PS2.

[Sparta07]

@guilty, no way.

[S2Killinit]

Ummmmm oookaaayyy.

[Naji4Me]

Its not the king.

[hirobrotagonist]

No

[Whirlwind_Fanfare_08]

SMH! just no!

[Naji4Me]

King of red ring

[pixel_l]

LoL, the 360 was all about kinect in it's last three years, it started strong but ended weak. IMO the ps2 is the king of all consoles. I personally enjoyed the ps3 more, maybe because I was a teenager in the ps2 day's and had totally other interests than gaming at that time.

[rlow1]

In terms of sales the ps2 is king, but in terms of impact the original Xbox and the Xbox 360 had a much bigger impact on gaming. Original Xbox brought three things to the fold, Broadband on every machine, Xbox Live, and of course the first well done shooter "Halo". Before the Original Xbox no console had these or was not successful with them.

The Xbox 360 was the console that Ken Kutaragi said it's one year lead wouldn't matter and Playstation would crush it, something that Sony fanboys conveniently forget to mention. The Ps2 was king at that time and the Xbox was the underdog, same with the 360 and Ps3. The Ps3 was expected to crush the 360 and it didn't. The 360 led most of that generation. What the 360 brought to the fold was Gamer Score, Arcade, Indie Games, Make your own games, Cross chat, Messages, play your own music while you played a game, and of course the ever evolving UI experience. Sony had to play catchup on all those things at the time. So in terms of impact I believe it's the greatest console, because it was such a game changer. Majority of the features we have today are because of it

[SideNote]

Don't forget the internal memory, using the hd to run games too.

[Segata]

In terms of impact nothing tops NES. It saved the entire industry

[lastking95]

When you absorb all that in.....you gotta go with 360 as king.

[quiddd]

Which one did you like the best?..............the 1st, 2nd, 3rd one you bought?

55% failure rate if I'm correct.......and it wasn't an opinion piece like this article.

[Teh_Leviathan]

I bought 3. The first one, the elite and the slim. None of which had RROD. While I'll admit that it was sucky that that even happened to people, it didn't happen to me so I'm happy.

@Sunny_D : Yet fanboys are going crazy for the possibility of a new PS4? Also, the slim Xbox 360 was a gift.

[Sunny_D]

That mentality is why companies like MS get away with shitting on consumers.

[Spurg]

Xbox will be remembered as the console that made playstation shit themself

[DragonDDark]

Xbox never won a generation. So get your facts straight.

[Spurg]

Won???Fact???...who's talking about winning...it didn't know it was a race. Sony defo got their ass handed to them at the beginning of the last gen...that a fact. They were lucky Ms lost their way half way through. You can at least admit that Sony were full of themselves at the beginning.

[BlackTar187]

Did sony get their ass handed to them in the beginning as in before it even came out and xbox had the market to itself for 12 months in US and 18 months in parts of Europe? I mean sure it got its ass handed to it when it wasn't even released yet.

[joeorc]

Xbox had at one time over a 8 million console lead at one time due to the release points of a lead time of as BlackTar187 pointed out..most of that lead was in the North American & UK market..but once the PS3 released..it was eating into that lead. Right away

Think about this by Nov 4 2012, Sony had already Sold over 70 million units of the playstation 3 world wide!
And unlike the Xbox 360..its still in production! Microsoft now ceased further production of the xbox360 !

Leading the most in the united states and UK does not make you the leader! Being the leader of a market that is World wide means just that World wide!

The console market is a world wide market.

This generation both the Xbox one and Playstation 4 released within a week of each other in the market..many gamers think it was all due to the negative press is the only reason Sony's playstation is in the lead.

No..its because Sony's playstation like Nintendo's are world wide Brands, while Microsoft's Xbox as a platform is for a brand really of only select markets. On a world wide scale.

[q8kik]

Well, atleast it acted like a medieval king, "Pay me or gtfo of online gaming" lol

[StormLegend]

The 360 started the generation out good but ended badly. The online and system updates we're the only good thing about the 360. PS3 took over and had tons of exclusives and even added PS+ so gamers can get free games. and they finished with strong support.

[Teh_Leviathan]

Yeah, you're right. If only 360 had had something similar to PS+

[Sunny_D]

Not similar. AS GOOD*

[IamTylerDurden1]

Considering the 360 was outsold by 2 other consoles during this time, i'd hardly call it the greatest of all-time. PS3 outsold the 360 even though the 360 had an entire year of extra sales. The Wii was much more poplular and sold significantly more. The Wii was a legitimate cultural icon in its day.

The king of consoles is the PS2. It sold 160 million units and is thought of in an iconic sense. Hell, the OG PlayStation was more popular.

[maniacmayhem]

You sony fanboys and your tired sales talk. Please consider that the author is talking about personal experiences, features that were new for consoles at the time and the experiences he had with the 360, not just sales which is all you fanboys seem to consider when discussing how much fun you have.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Ask a PS fan for Official PS3 numbers, they never respond. Here are their usual responses:

1) It released a year later
2) Half of Xbox sales were RROD - NOPE RROD were warranty replacements
3) Vgchartz under tracked Ps3 - riiight
4) PS3 sold more each month globally - no numbers

Face it PS fans can't provide numbers. Last official numbers were from 2013. 80 million officially from Sony and 84 million from MS. Sony lost a massive amount of marketshare to Xbox following the PS2 era, lost tons of money on CELL, MS obliterated Sony in software sales and online ecosystem. Sony is just learning their lesson with the PS4, which is why they are back at the top but to say they didn't get their ass handed to them is just being blind to the truth.

The previous Gen ended in 2013. The PS3 came in third place.

Here is another perspective. Typical gens last 4-⅝ years. If the previous gen ended in 2010 Xbox won. Ps3 needed an abnormally long 10 year gen to"catch" up!!

[rlow1]

Can't agree with you more!!

[quiddd]

don't know what your looking at
http://www.vgchartz.com/ana...

[BlackTar187]

lol the gen ended when you say it did? It also ended with the 360 having 12-18 months more market time. That's fair i mean it's fair for xbox 360 lol.

[joeorc]

Oh' holy hell unlike the xbox360..the PS3 is still in production..just because you want to call the end to a support cycle does not mean it is..

The xbox360 came in last, why? Its simple ..the xbox360 production run has ended, and the PS3 has not..that means its going to continue to sell on the retail chamber while the xbox360 will soon be off the shelf.

It IE: the xbox 360 has lost by sheer Market endurance..and once again Microsoft has proven itself to be without a shadow of a doubt to be a one console company in the market at one time..now nothing wrong with that but its just the blunt honest truth..and oh that market share your so proud of Microsoft taking away from Sony..

Well Sony just took it all back and than some this generation. Already.
@343_Guilty_Spark18h ago
[The prior gen ended in Fall 2013. Xbox 360 won and continues to outsell PS3 in hardware and software every quarter.]

No the generation ends for that series of game console when the company ceases production when the company no longer intends to produce that system..that is the end of its cycle.

The xbox360's end of life cycle is 2016..

[343_Guilty_Spark]

The prior gen ended in Fall 2013. Xbox 360 won and continues to outsell PS3 in hardware and software every quarter.

[Sunny_D]

If it needed a long lifespan to catch up, do you admit the 360 became shitty in the last years for it to lose it's little lead it had? LMAO

[S2Killinit]

so are you saying xbox DIDN"T have a year head start? or that the RROD didn't contribute to their sales number? or that they DIDN't get outsold worldwide? or that they DIDN'T sell less by the end of the generation? I don't get it, these are all facts...

[Stick357]

PS3 was great for two things, exclusive games and hardware options (blue ray player, DLNA, etc.).
360 was the better all around gaming machine for the first half of last gen with better 3rd party game quality, equally good exclusives, and a more robust online infrastructure. Last gen, Live > PSN, you are delusional if you think psn was a better service. PSN was garbage for the first part of last gen.

[DigitalRaptor]

Stop doing the de facto thing that all Xbox fanboys do, that is lying and moving goalposts.

The previous gen "ended"? Sales did not stop. You lose a generation when you stop producing your console and end up with less units sold. Your lack of figures don't help your argument. Xbox 360 ended production, and PS3 is still being produced AND sold.

[iNFAMOUZ1]

congrats xbox, and 360, best gaming consoles we will ever have, halo ce, 2 and 3 live forever, i will play them till i die

[Ruggadagod]

The PS2 is the king of all game consoles bruh. 360 was decent though and had great online.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

PS2 had a two year head start on both the Xbox and the Gamecube. Two years to make partnerships with developers and publishers, many that they buddied up with during the PSX era.

[IamTylerDurden1]

The Dreamcast introduced online gaming at a time when it was unheard in the console world. The world had changed when the 360 came out, online gaming was expected at this point. Microsoft did make it accepted to forced ppl to pay for online gaming, so there is that.

[rlow1]

You are correct but it was Microsoft that provided the modem for that system.

[joeorc]

The Dreamcast's OS was Also provided by Microsoft.. Ie: Windows CE..or the very same core OS code base as Pocket PC or Windows mobile 1.1 all the way up to windows mobile 7.4..

That's as of until when Windows Phone was released which replaced the WinCE code base.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

The Dreamcast was the Beta Xbox. Gosh I loved that system.

[joeorc]

Umm it would be the Alpha to the Xbox platform..the Dreamcast had WindowsCE for its Operating system. That was well before Xbox was created on the drawing board..so it would be the Alpha ..before Xbox.

[ScorpiusX]

Like the tablet incident MS introduced everyone was skeptical , they leave it alone . Apple comes along with a tablet not that long after and everyone eats it up like it was a god sent . which was a really sad moment in the tech world and for other companies .

@JOEORC That turtleneck wear arsehole success was due to his blatant stealing of other people works and then had the ball to use some Quotes every time he was called out on it..

But no one did it as often as that TN wearing SOB.
Also you forget that the organizer was the first PDA and way before the newton PDA .

http://www.businessinsider....

[joeorc]

What? Just going to ignore the Apple newton? Look while Microsoft has innovative, you should really stop trying to give them the innovation of the tablet as if Microsoft created it..they did not.

[joeorc]

If you want to do that than 3com which was before the release of the palm pilot was Handspring visor. Did you know even before the newton Sony created a pen touch tablet!

Yes in 2000 Microsoft was showing off a tablet they were working on..but yet

Take a look!

"In 1992, Atari showed developers the Stylus, later renamed ST-Pad. The ST-Pad was based on the TOS/GEM Atari ST Platform and prototyped early handwriting recognition. Shiraz Shivji's company Momentus demonstrated in the same time a failed x86 MS-DOS based Pen Computer with its own GUI."

The entire industry grows because they all go to the same trade shows..they all take influence from each other.
Hell windows OS was based on the OS that Xerox made!

[rlow1]

Yes it did have rrod and Microsoft replaced mine for free. On the other hand I had two ps3 die on me and Sony didn't do anything except to charge me to fix it!!

[ashcroft]

Because PS3 deaths were uncommon, where as nearly every 360 console was affected by RROD, to the point where they had to replace it for free as they had a class action on their hands.

It's called saving face. Sony didn't need to as the number of ps3 failings were absolutely nothing compared to the earlier 360 models.

[Sunny_D]

Common sense is not obvious in Xbox fans.

@Jack Joyce

They replaced it because MS had to spend a few billion dollars to increase the standard 1 year warranty to a whole 3 years because of how shitty the 360 was built. OF COURSE they will replace it for free, doofus.

[ocelot07]

Loved the 360 but PS2 "is" the king of consoles and will most likely stay king forever.

[sullynathan]

Man Xbox 360 brought me good and bad memories. It's a piece of shit hardware wise with overheating and RROD but it had some fun games. I really disliked paid multiplayer though and the removal of features for Xbox live gold, it's sad that this would set a precedent for the future.

[WeAreLegion]

No. A case could be made for PS2, SNES, PS1, or possibly NES. Definitely not the 360 though.

[Imalwaysright]

Maybe not the 360 but I would argue that the original Xbox should be in that group. The original Xbox shaped the consoles that came after it much more than any of the consoles that you mentioned. Can you imagine the PS4 without a HDD or without an unified online service? The original Xbox shaped many of the things that we came to expect from our consoles.

[FarEastOrient]

What false reality does this person live in? Xbox 360 ended in third place.

[SegaGamer]

I have had a lot of fun on my 360, but i wouldn't put it at the top because it hasn't had better games than previous gen consoles and it was the console started some horrible things that still exist in gaming today.

DLC ( yeah, i know it existed before the 360, but it really took off on the 360 and it's only getting worse )
Pay for online gaming

These are 2 of the worst things about gaming today.

[Tsunade]

"retiring as the king of all consoles"

Lol. What?

The king of all consoles is still the PS2. Also, xbox has never won a single generation ever. The only crown we can give xbox 360 is the failure rate crown for the red ring of death. No other console ever had such a rate of failure.

[Khaotic]

I guess PS4 nation didn't read the article. It's mainly stating Xbox made online console gaming streamlined . The PC had the systems in place but the console market was way behind. And if there would have only been a PS3 and PS4 then we still would be. Xbox live gave us online gaming as we know it today on console. FACT

[asadachi]

This writer has a very closed view when it comes to rest of the world. Nice to know he had such a good experience with Xbox 360, but that system didn't beat the PS3 in over all sales. It was a good system, but I the child who wrote this needs to grow up a bit and learn how to differentiate opinion from fact.

[2pacalypsenow]

Xbox 360 was a great console and most popular last gen but you're going too far calling it the King of all Game consoles, that's PS2

[Majin-vegeta]

King of all consoles....with the highest failure rate.

Fixed that for ya.

[topgeareasy]

lol king of last place

[DrBallzac]

Should be titled the "king of all xbox consoles"

[assdan]

A symbol of videogames. The ps4 is more popular in the US, and surprise, people that aren't gamers now use playstation to refer to games. The one argument he has is that it brought party chat to consoles, I mean that's cool, but it's not THAT big of a deal, and just completely pretending that the playstation brand hasn't done anything is laughable. Playstation is truly what brought gaming into the mainstream.
Also, what the Hell was he talking about with the Radeon and GeForce comparison?

[opinionated]

The 360 was great. It got me back into gaming after a long hiatus and it was my first online console. Good times.

[Faztkiller]

I'm the 360 was good for about 5 years then it just went down hill and the xbox one is continuing downward

[Condemnedman]

hands down best console I ever owned.

[ZerobyZero]

Is this a trolling article

[ZombieKiller]

Yeah i stopped reading at the headlines. Playstation and its millions of users all say hi.

[Silly gameAr]

That headlines not click bait at all.

[maniacmayhem]

Nope, it's not, especially if you read the actual article.

[RosweeSon]

It was good it wasn't That good tho best console ever. Had they not charged me to play online for 9-10 years they may well have won it but no sorry great console great games just not quite the best of the best.
The poor reliability for one, my SNES still works yet find me a launch day Xbox 360 that does.

[Takwin]

Clearly satire. I won't even click on this click-baitiest title of all time.

By any measure - most units sold, most units sold per year, most total games at 90+ Metacritic , most exclusives at 90+ Metacritic, highest review score of the console, failure rate - NONE of these indicate Xbox 360 was #1 at anything. It did lead in death caused by red rings, however.

[Deviwolf]

coming from a person who stopped gaming during my yrs in highschool, I came back to gaming because of XBOX LIVE on the xbox 360. The xbox 360 was an amazing console, where as ps3 did not have a reliable online service. I remember when the PSN went down for like 2 months. BUT saying that after the E3 where MS showed off the XBONE, they lost me completely. That E3 showed how bad their greed had gotten. I gave the Playstation conference a shot and watched the showcase for the Ps4. Telling myself IF the Ps4 can do what the xbox 360 could social wise I would switch over. And I know for a fact a lot of other consumers felt betrayed with MS after that E3 and switched over as well. I give props to the xbox 360 for bringing what it had brought. If it wasnt for the Xbox live service I would not have met the friends I currently have right now.

[xHeavYx]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Realms]

Stop that the king of all consoles is the PS2 and while the 360 was innovative and changed the way people play and interact online it also had the heights failure rate of any console generation. I could even argue that being online has brought many unwanted practices by developers and publishers that have negatively influenced gaming.

[jay2]

Ummmm no

[truegamerkt]

Joke Article?

[AngelicIceDiamond]

King of all game consoles i is a big stretch. Its started off fantastic then it got stale with all the same games every year. Third party was also to blame also with annualization of games. For the broad consumer I guess some might argue it to be the "King" I personally don't see that just because that generation didn't have my sorta games overall. The broad everyday consumer, sure, they'll argue it as one of the best consoles out there.

[headblackman]

no! the hardware is just being retired from the gaming market. that doesn't remove it's position. micheal jackson died and he's still the king of pop. think about that for a moment.

[SynestheticRoar]

Xbox the symbol for video games. When did this happen? Damn I over slept

[Jamaicangmr]

Wait what? LMFAO!!!

[Gantrfaxx]

King of all game consoles. ROTFLMAO!

[iTechHeads]

Nope. That's PS2.

[esmittystud101]

I guess I could agree with this but that last year and a half for Xbox 360 game wise was rough. I mean, they had a few titles here and there but very far between. GTAV at the end, right before that there was Bioshock Infinate. I know it was the end and the devs were prepping for the next gen, but still rough.

But I don't think I'm going to take a bunch of flack for that comment, it will probably be for this:

"I'm having more fun in gaming in the last three years than I ever have in my entire life and great games is the reason."

- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
- Bloodborne*
- Cod: Black Ops 3
- Dark Souls (X1 - B.C.)*
- Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin*
- Dark Souls III*
- Dying Light
- Forza Horizon 2
- GTAV
- Just Cause 3
- Life Is Strange
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Quantum Break
- Rise of The Tomb Raider
- Star Wars: Battlefront
- Sunset Overdrive
- The Last of Us: Remastered
- The Order: 1886
- The Witcher 3*
- Tomb Raider: D.E.
- Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection*
- Trials: Fusion
- Far Cry 4
- Ryse: Son of Rome
- The Evil Within
- Dead Rising 3
- Infamous: Second Son
- Infamous: First Light
- Cod: Advanced Warfare
- Lords of The Fallen
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
- Outlast
- Resident Evil HD
- Thief
- Watch Dogs
- Battlefield 4
- Wolfenstein: The New Order
- Cod: Ghosts

* = my favorites

My Xbox 360 collection list...............doesn't even come close to what I have above. I had over 35 games for Xbox 360 too. Sorry, I guess I'm the only one that loves this console generation.

[SideNote]

My word. PlayStation people would you hear yourselves. You sound so pathetic. Must I come into every article where you all go on an off topic frenzy. It's only a machine. Hell, Facebook games probably sell more games than on ps4 or whatever.

[Pazto]

360 was an awesome console, arguably the king of past gen. I had PS3, 360 and WII and I'm not a fanboy, but for me, it had no rivals. I used to get all the multi-platform games for it, and played with it way more than PS3 and WII combined.

[NickAwesome]

The king of broken consoles, i lost two consoles to the red ring of death plague, still have nightmares about them

[gangsta_red]

I still say the SNES is the king of all game consoles but the 360 is definitely up there. I had a lot of great, new experiences with the 360 and it definitely left a very good nostalgic impression on me.

[gepugg]

I would argue that the PS2 is the king of game consoles.

[BillytheBarbarian]

Xbox 360 is king of all my consoles simply because it's modded and I can play NES, SMS, Genesis, TG16, Gameboy, GameGear, Atari, Odyssey 2, Game oy advance, Super Nintendo, PlayStation, 32x, Sega CD, Mame, Dreamcast, and OG Xbox games along with 360 and Xbla with a few clicks on a controller. It's also my music library of over 30,000 songs. It's my baby.

[BillytheBarbarian]

And N64...😊

[showtimefolks]

Ok lol

PS1 AND PS2 would like to have a word with you

[PJF_Josh]

Microsoft definitely made an impact on the gaming landscape with the Xbox 360 and its services but let's be realistic here, it finished in third place in worldwide sales for its generation. And that includes all the replacement RROD consoles that were likely counted as part of the tally.

[Tzuno]

Supernintendo, playstation 1 and 2 and Xbox 360, i find them the best consoles ever. I freaking love the X 360 controller.

[magiciandude]

IMO, the NES holds this honor.

[II__BONE__II]

your opinion is wrong,................imo

[windblowsagain]

King, ROFL.

More like the Joker.

[Petebloodyonion]

Retiring as the king of all console? Sorry no!
Retiring as a king? definitively!

saying the king of all is quite subjective because almost everybody can make this kind of claim with some facts.

Nes: Saved the gaming industry, Mario
PS1: Pionnered Cd storage, Brought RPG to the mainstream market.
WII: New way to play, massive hits torward the causal gamer
etc.

What's important about the X360 is How it established Online features as mandatory.
Before that Online was a afterthought. sure some game had some online features but it wasn't the standard
(Heck Tekken, Streetfighter, Soulcalibur, Virtua Fighter had no online mode in the west).
With Xbox came online Leader board, online play and achievements

[Vasto]

Xbox 360 best console ever

[Skankinruby]

Lol huh? 360 was the most overhyped underdelivered console in gaming history who the hell thinks of this garbage

[madmonkey01]

King of all consoles, loser in its own generation.

[trywizardo]

thought no console will be better than PS2,but 360 did <3
PS4 will be great too,when they fix its damn issues tho...

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

That "Xbox is the face of gaming" comment reminds me of the "critically acclaimed Quantum Break" commercials.

[maniacmayhem]

Like the GOTY The Order contender I used to read.

[DigitalRaptor]

Oh jesus, maniacmayhem.

What does The Order have to do with any of this? You have made that ludicrous claim before and I asked you for proof and you never supplied it. Just stop lying to misrepresent.

[Metfanant]

The console with the 3rd highest sales total of its generation, is the "King of all game consoles?"

There is very little room for debate regarding the greatest console of all time. The correct answer, is the PS2...but I'd accept an argument for the NES for saving the industry

[The_Sage]

Outsold by the PS3 (even though the PS3 was more expensive and launched nearly a year later) and the Wii. Had a scandalously high failure rate. Made people buy only their brand of hard drive. And, backed a form of video that died a quick death.

Don't sound like a king to me, unless we're talking about Jeoffrey.

[MRMagoo123]

the ps3 launched a year and a half later in Australia ,Europe and the UK so it's even worse for the 360

[PutridPlop]

MS introduced friends list, unlockable game trials, a unified leaderboard, achievements, required updates to prevent cheating and downloadable content.. Not to mention the greatness of XBL which MS continues to evolve to this day. Yeah, damn right the Xbox 360 was "King of Consoles" if we look at all of it's contributions to console gaming rather than just sales.

It's obviously a hard pill to swallow for most salty fanboys here but it's the truth. All the PS2 had was it's sales which was due mostly to an 18 month head start that gave it a huge jump in 3rd party exclusive support over everyone else. A huge jump in 3rd party exclusive support which was later lost with the launch of the Xbox 360.

R.I.P Xbox 360 king of consoles may your legend live on for many generations to come.

[trouble_bubble]

You mention the ps2's year head start but neglect to see the 360 had the exact same year head start, securing 3rd party support unchallenged and a monopoly in sales.

However, when the PS3 and Wii came out in 2006 we saw even more contributions to the industry from the xbox's competition such as:

*BluRay burying the 360's HDDVD
*HDMI which 360 launched without
* free online MP vs the Xbox paywall that even blocked Netflix,
*Internet web browsing on console *downloads of custom themes/video/pictures/music directly from said internet onto the HDD which the 360 still can't do with video/pics.
*Built in wifi which 360 sold separately
*Bluetooth replacing batteries
*motion control which 360 controllers still don't have
*non proprietary HDD support which 360 doesn't allow.
*More audio support such as DTS 7.1 which 360 lacked.
*Social communities like Home, copied by Gameroom
*PS plus which was later copied in GWG. *Cloud storage which 360 later copied
*game sharing on up to 5 consoles at launch
*remote play which 360 didn't have anything to go with.
*higher MP player counts such as MAG's 256players and Resistance2 40v40

In a nutshell. 360 brought some good things to the table and competition was good. But when the PS3 brought just as much if not more, it's hard declaring king without noticing that king also lost his 10million to nothing crown twice in one gen.

Still, a great sophomore effort by Xbox. Congrats on injecting some great competition into the industry.

[lastking95]

Most nearly all of that wasn't really game changing and would naturally come launching a year later just as 360 implemented most of it later. Blu ray....okay what impact did that have atm? Was not much of a factor till late in the gen. None of that is revolutionary.

Its subjective to how you judge a console king. Popluarity ps2 obviously, revolution and game changing impact. 360 hands down well maybe even arguably ps1.

[II__BONE__II]

* 4 Front USB Ports
* MIDI Support
* Full backwards compatibility /Launch models
* Internal Power Supply
* Linux at launch
* Mostly all video/audio Formats

In order to watch HD movies on a 360 you had to buy another expensive unit to attach to your 360 to watch HD movies. Otherwise it was plain DVD all the way.

[IdinRolf]

I'll give you Blu Ray, everything else is laughable. The PS3 didn't even come with an HDMI cable at first, the free online MP was garbage, the web browser was garbage, the controllers died out too quickly, motion control which was a gimmick and was useless, that six axis was the dumbest thing I've ever seen as far as hardware goes. PS Home died out fast.

Higher MP counts, and yet MAG and Resistance didn't come close to games like Halo and Gears which had fewer players yet blew those Playstation games out of the water

PS+ is something I'll give you though, even though it's been shite the last few years.

The PS3 brought more ,the Xbox 360 brought BETTER

[trouble_bubble]

@idin

Whos, I didn't call your king garbage, yet suddenly everything on PS3 is garbage? Ok I'll bite.

Home lasted years and made more quick cash than probably most Xbox exclusives. You enjoyed that Doritos crash course and Burger King karting movement? Xbox gold only being able to be used by the primary account holder to access online and not sub accounts?

Who cares if it had an hdmi cable or not, neither did the 360!! it didn't even have hdmi period. Everything was extra. Wifi, MP, you guys didn't even have a browser until a couple years ago, and you can't even download from it like you could on the competition's.

Mag and resistance didn't need to compete with halo. PS3 wasn't a one trick pony like Xbox who had one exclusive racer, one exclusive fps, one exclusive tps, one exclusive rpg, that's it. That's revolutionary. Playing NOTHING..behind a paywall.

[microgenius]

360?
King?
keep telling that yourself
I bet it'll make you sleep better

[Oreic]

Ummmmm, ps2.....

[PhoenixUp]

The undisputed king of all consoles will always be PS2 unless another console can outsell it

[BillytheBarbarian]

Then Justin beiber is your best musician and McDonalds makes your best food.

[PutridPlop]

I think we're going by what contributions the 360 made to gaming not overall sales. Many here like yourself seem to be confused by that.

[MRMagoo123]

well the 360 did contribute some of the worst practices to ever grace console gaming .....so I guess it has that.

[PhoenixUp]

@ therightside

I'm not confused. PS3 made just as many contributions to the gaming industry as the 360 did

[Arminies]

i love the 360 and for all it brought to the table but do people forget the RROD?

[TheKingslayer]

From the standpoint of introducing new game changing technology? Then yes the Xbox 360 was the King. This is not a sales knock against the PS2. The Playstation 2 introduced DVD's which were already being used on PC, but it was not changing the gaming landscape. Take into account that the Dreamcast was releasing some amazing games both online and offline. Phantasy Star Online, Doom, Quake were all playable on console online. The Playstation 2 refined game genres that were established already. So Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear Solid, Grand Theft Auto all franchise that came into their own the Playstation 2. The Gamecube had games like Viewtiful Joe, Resident Evil 4, and others that were doing spectacular things in gaming.

Now, when the Xbox 360 emerged Microsoft brought unified architecture, stronger online infrastructure, social gaming & communication, indie gaming, and many system features like background music, media center. The Xbox 360 from a console structure was unlike any other console before it. Doing all these things that were squarely at upgrading the gaming, and gamer experience.

Obviously the argument is subjective, because what the PS2 did for it's time was absolutely amazing, and no one can take anything from that console.

[Retroman]

360 retiring as the King of gaming console

Haaaaaaaaaaaa in your dreams. twilight zone say you're on LSD

[II__BONE__II]

The 360,.....the "King" of all game consoles????
ROTFLMFAO........Gimmie a fucking break! the 360 was Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar from king of the game consoles!
I'll be laughing about this for the rest of the week! Thanks N4G!
And who really wrote this article? Don The Mattrix?... Major Minor Nelson?... Phil Too Much Suspenser?

[lastking95]

Type of person to laugh instead to hold back tears lol.

[Artemidorus]

A decent console yes but king of all consoles, I don't think so

[DragonKnight]

Uh, sorry, but the King of All Game Consoles is still the Playstation 2. There has yet to be any other console with more units sold, more games, and more memories than than the PS2. Don't know what this author is smoking but it's gotta be potent.

[maniacmayhem]

Units sold doesn't actually equal fond memories. Maybe the author wasn't around or was into gaming during the PS2 era.

Opinions are just that, opinions.

Personally I think the NES or SNES share the throne of the best console ever.

[Akuma2K]

The Xbox360 was the king of RROD, the PS2 is the king of consoles...no contest.

"PS2 then pimp slaps the xbox360 and tells it to know your dam roll".

[Kalebninja]

oooooooh the clickbait is real.

[Lulz_Boat]

HAAHAHAHHAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAAHAH

[Hakoom]

too bad it cant play or have uncharted lol
ps2 ps3 crushed game wise and sales wise

[Liqu1d]

PS2 is factually the king of all games consoles. Anyone who thinks it was the 360 clearly only started gaming last gen.

[KentBenMei]

Maybe among this generation of gamers. It's been around for over a decade now, so the kids and teens of today probably see 360 as the modern Genesis.

But no matter how we slice it, there's no way 360 is the king of anything, not even its own generation. It will end up in the top 10, maybe. It's a solid console, though, and the first to do online right (except for charging for it LOL).

[strickers]

I've read some bilge on here but that must have been written by someone under 20( who is also an idiot). Nonsense .

[ballisticvoodoo]

Sorry to burst the authors bubble but the PS2 was the "KING of ALL CONSOLES"

[Dipper]

I lol'd so much I spit up my drink.

[MehmetAlperTR]

For me King Of All Gaming Consoles are
1- Dreamcast
2 Playstation 1

[Retroman]

Don't forget SNES was the king too.

360 King of RROD yes by landslide.

PS2 says hi!

[RedDeadLB]

PS2 says hi.

[holtzy]

lol what king of all consoles somebody drank the Microsoft kool aid. the ps2 was a far better console and sold ten times the amount of the xbox 360 https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... .

[Segata]

Clickbait at it's finest.

[lastking95]

Its a close race between ps2 and 360. As time goes on and we shift into more online features it shifts more in 360's favor.

Ps2 was "the console" everyone had one and it had an endless library. 360 revolutionized gaming to what we know today. To close to call. Definitely arguable 360 takes the crown.
Based solely on game changin impact 360 no doubt. Based soley on popularity and amount of games, ps2.

[DafunkyRebel]

are you retarded? The PS3 was wayyy better than the 360 and it wasn't even as good as the PS2 which is hands down the EMPEROR of gaming consoles The 360 was a great console having had tons of fun with BF3, Gears and Halo 3 on it but its in NO WAY a better console then the PS2

[MainstreamGamer]

To be king you have to at least win a console generation. Microsoft have not won a single generation yet, and it looks like Sony has this Gen in bag.

[JMyers]

King of all game consoles? Hmmmm the PS2 says hello. And it didn't launch broken.

[II__BONE__II]

This journalist rejected our sense of reality and substituted his own!

[rigo8582]

I think the 360 is probably my favorite console of all time. The only thing that was missing on the 360 is that more dreamcast games should've been ported to it like Shenmue.

[GamingIVfun]

The tittle of this article has to be a joke.

[Subaruwrx]

RROD resulted in millions of more X360's being sold. The fact that so many people bought 2,3,4 X360's is either a testament to the excellence of the games and services it offered or a testament to the insanity of those who bought 2,3,4 X360's after the system RROD'd on them multiple times. Maybe it's a little bit of both. That said, I don't think it's arguable at all that the X360 is the king of consoles - that title surely belongs to the PS2. However, it is true, imo, that the X360 was a very influential and innovative console especially in the American and UK markets.

[Shadow_Fall_X]

"Xbox 360 is retiring as the king of all game consoles" My Ass
RROD (Red Ring of Death)
Disc scratching problem
Pay to Play Online
Dashboard Ads
Pay to Use Free Apps like IGN, Internet Explorer, and Twitch
Pay to Use Paid Subscription Apps like Netflix, Amazon, and HBO Go

[frostypants]

RLOD? Failed to maintain its sales lead despite coming out a year before the PS3? King of what now?

[WickedLester]

Thanks for the laugh!

[Gardenia]

You must be from the USA or UK because anywhere else in the world it was and is Playstation and Nintendo. Plus the PS3 has sold more than the Xbox 360 while the Xbox 360 was released a year before PS3

[donwel]

Am I the only one who finds it odd that someone is referring to the the system that finished last as "the king of all game consoles"?

[Retroman]

No your not the only one see that.......

[ownag3]

I just came hear to say the PS2 was the "king of all consoles." END OF STORY.

[IdinRolf]

Truly the best console of last gen, and one of the best consoles of all time.

[Onenyte]

I couldn't read the article , clickbait in its purest .

But the fact that people are actually comparing the 360 to a PS2 is god damn insulting

the only thing that can come remotely close to the PS2 or even PS1, is a SNES

can we please stop comparing the two , it's just not fair.

[InsaneChronos]

Ummmm. Nope.

[Smokingunz]

Look at all those sony haters in the common smh cant even give respect where respect is due, even if its to save your lives, really, its a shame!

Sorry to burst your sony bubbles but this article spoke the truth. Xbox 360 was a way better console and did everything right that generation, they also introduced many accolades along the way such as, great exclusive games, party chat(which as doesnt feel that great if an experience on the ps4) the achievement system ( which sony copied and disguise them as trophies lol) the greatrst controller ever and not to mention lastly outsold the ps3, like shut up, really. However the new people in charge of the xbox brand including spencer has made poor decisions and have no clue what their doing and where they're heading but thats a convo for another day.

Long live the legendary console the xbox 360. It will be remebered as the only console that challenged the sony (the ps3 and kicked it's ass lol).

[Jag-T1000]

An honor well deserved!

[MicrosoftMackin]

Lol

[bradleejones]

ROFLCOPTER

[agame914]

This article has got to be a cruel joke.....right??

[miyamoto]

King?
Since when did an Xbox console dominated its generation? LOL!

[EricHonolulu]

Not even.

[ultimize]

KING OF CONSOLE IS PS2!

[alti]

lmao. the king of all gaming consoles didn't even finish first in its own generation. Please go home. And red ring while you're at it.

[snellings]

Eh... for my money, the Commodore 64 is the king of all game consoles...but that's only because it's fun to say.

[joel_c17]

Whats with all the pro MS and anti Sony articles lately?

[killer_goat]

Seriously who agreed on this rubbish article? Everyone knows that the Ps2 is the greatest console of all time. The only thing that the 360 won was the worst manufactured, most unreliable console of all time.

[RenegadeRocks]

PS2.

[Psytrix]

The King? Yeah nah.

[jorellpogi]

King of all game console is PS2. Calling the 360 that title is blind fanboyism and idiocy.

[Nilla_Nate]

Yeah with the RRoD and the scratched discs it sure is king...

[Max-Zorin]

N4G and it's sick obsession with flame bait articles. Just sickening, like strep throat.

[TheMutator]

The king of the RROD and his 52% of consoles failures.

[burza1982]

pfff....king of all game consoles....yeah sure.
First grey PlayStation always will be a King.

[hsark]

the xbox 360 was great for its generations man, I remember chasing achievements ......still have mine got a nice catalogue of games to finish

[cd1]

What an opinionated statement - for me it was N64.

[naji2004]

not its not, specially after witnessing the first console heart attack "RROD"!

[ybadr]

Very arguable i guess. But good joke though ...

[SolidStoner]

It depends in what country you live in.. in Europe Playstation is the thing.. in US xbox might be the one everyone knows.. depends in what country you live.. xbox always was a symbol of MS, greedy milking and silly childish games for me personally! ;)

[joedom]

The Xbox 360 isn't within spitting distance of the NES, SNES, or even the PS2. All sold way more than the Xbox 360, and the NES arguably saved the gaming industry in the west.

[81BX]

Thanks for all the memories xbox360 good and bad. Taught me a lot about myself as a gamer.

[Malokii]

Xbox 360 for me was great experience, first time playing with your friends over the internet it was something amazing (i had original Xbox before but Live there was not that cool) hours and hours playing best games ever made in game industry were those made on Xbox platform, and im not a Xbox fanboy, i had at the same time PS3 but it was something old i felt like im trapped in console and nobody is around me, xbox was more social, after darkness in playing with friends i discovered in PSOne and PS2, 360 was something that fresh that i cant even write. Of course now you have console wars and stuff, but back then players were friendly and really nice, what i want to say its thanks to microsoft because they made really good console (im aware of rrod and e74 errors) which will last more 10 years like original Xbox, Xbox One is not the same but maybe only for me, because im older now and i just like to play older games (not remastered).
2000 - 2004 Sony
2005 - 2012 Microsoft
2013 - now Sony
I think this is the truth standing behind haters, fanboys and everyone saying this console is better or another one,
every single period of time was up to one Brand like 80' for Nintendo or 90' for Sony.
Thanks Xbox 360 for great experience !

[One-Shot]

He knows PS3 outsold 360 worldwide, right?

[Taero]

*Except for the N64 which heralded 3D gaming, the DS as being the most successful handheld ever at 154 million sold, the PS2 at 150 million sold. Heck the PS3 is at 80 million sold beating the 360 by about 1-2 million so...what exactly is it King at? It's live service? Not that great unless you're into shooters as I personally never played any games that relied heavily on an online hosted service so I feel that premise is flawed or at least tarnished with the dudebro cuss out yo' momma reputation that seemed to come with it.

[yeahright2]

Oh, is there where I'm supposed to fall for the blatant click bait and click on the article? Sorry, no.

[Retroman]

Title of article should of been "Just for Laughs"

[ShadowKnight]

King???? I remember my 360 red ring of Death multiple times

[Sentient09]

Best console last gen

[kenwonobi]

Oh brother. Now it's the self pronounced King?