Happy Birthday to the Xbox

[gekko]

The original Xbox was fantastic. I honestly didn't care for it at all at first because I couldn't stand the controller, and the system by itself didn't offer too much over DC, PS2, and GameCube. And then time passed, a better controller came out, and I started to play Halo and was impressed by the Dolby Digital encoding. Then as time passed the HD factor started to be more noticeable, and then Live came out, and the other consoles might as well have not existed.

I was running a GameCube site when Xbox came out, and was quite young, so I really wanted to hate it. But by the time that generation had ended, Microsoft completely won me over. It's the reason why this is the first generation I have felt no interest in owning all the consoles, I'm just way too happy with what Xbox provides, and it all started with the Live beta. Hell, most of my friends list is still the people I played MotoGP with in the Live beta.

Xbox really also needs to be given a lot of credit from the development side. Fantastic system.