Xbox 360

“the indie game store was a wild place with some real hidden gems”

“the library actually is very impressive”

“the RRoD means MS definitely didn't get it right”

“Xbox 360 was pretty great. My favorite game to play online there was fight night round 3.”

“its part of why Xbox 360s were dying left and right”

“The 360 was winning hard early in the 7th console generation”

“xenos with its unified shaders was in some ways more advanced than its contemporary desktop gpus at launch”

“disconnected 100% from internet. good times only”

“I am also impressed they managed to use worse flash than the 15 year old $10 USB 2.0 drive”

“Being able to play game dumps off storage also means a failing disc drive is a minor issue.”

“Having Xbox live integrated at an OS level for cross game chat, messaging and music control was something that felt genuinely unique at the time”

“If the PS3 had come out a year before the 360 things might have played out differently.”

“it couldn't make a dent in the dominance of of Sony and Nintendo in Japan”

“They had it figured out perfectly in the Xbox360 generation”

“The 85 million people who've bought the Xbox 360 would disagree.”

“The xbox and 360 were solid consoles with lots of great internal and external games”

“The xbox and 360 were solid consoles with lots of great internal and external games.”

“I started buying Xbox games digitally for the Xbox 360, and with their backwards compatibility that ended up being a great choice.”

“Minecraft is delightful on my disconnected Xbox-360”

“they were somewhat hamstrung by weird decisions - RROD as mentioned”

“when mistakes were made (e.g. the RROD Xbox 360 debacle), the broader organization seemed allergic to making thing right”

“things like the Red Ring of Death with the X-Box”

“the S models are easiest to mod and most reliable (no RRoD)”

“learning how to modify my old 360 and play great games to relive some of those younger days”

“It was something like 25% - 50% of all first version 360s died.”

“by the time they started dying you could just grab a working one for "decently cheap"”

“Still works to this day. We hit the jackpot with that console.”

“it was straight up most of them dying within the first couple years”

“The Red Ring issue was caused by the cracking of solder joints inside the GPU flip chip package”

“The high failure rates of the Xbox 360 did not help.”

“The 360 gave them a few good years but in the end the ended the cycle in second place yet again.”

“Best Xbox console. It had pretty good games.”

“I still love its controller design.”

“Where the CPU and GPU could run together in one region of unified 512MB of memory with crazy fast rendering bandwidth.”

“the Xbox 360 arguably won its generation”

“It had a superior controller, awesome online play, and decent graphics.”

“stationary gaming consoles have been held back by slow (optical) storage”

“My Xbox 360 still plays games just fine last time I checked”

“They didn't seem to fix the issues with the 360 being essentially disposable until very late in the release cycle.”

“they had won the Xbox 360 generation by being a better game platform”