Here's something that'll make veteran Xbox fans feel old - the original system was first released almost twenty years ago back on November 15, 2001. Since then, players have enjoyed countless gaming sessions across multiple generations of Xbox devices, racking up some serious playtime along the way.
But which of those consoles has been your favourite to date? Those who remember the early days of Halo might instantly point to the original Xbox, while fans of the Xbox 360 could highlight its excellent games library and significant evolution of Xbox Live multiplayer. And in the case of the Xbox One (and Xbox One X), features such as Xbox Game Pass and backwards compatibility provide more value and choice than ever.
With all of this in mind, we want to know which Xbox console has been your favourite so far. We're not focusing on specific models aside from the Xbox One X - but feel free to go into detail in the comments below!
Vote in the poll and give us your thoughts in the comments.
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I'm going to likely go against the grain and say the Xbox One. The original, 2013 model Xbox One. I've had the most fun with it, it's been the most reliable for me, and I love the way Phil Spencer's team has evolved the platform and services side of things since its initial release.
I unfortunately don't own an Xbox One X, but I'd probably end up picking it if I did.
@FraserG I picked the X but the original One is great as well. Only thing that hurts the X is it doesn't naturally support the Kinect. May not have been for everyone but having the choice to use it was always nice.
The One S is my first ever Xbox, so that one for me. Microsoft are still the new kid on the block in my eyes but I've been pleasantly surprised with the One S, great value and looking forward to the Series X.
XOX for me.
I won’t get started on the One launch, but once they detached the Kinect from the One, I bought one of those, still have it. But it’s painfully obvious how much they cut down on performance to accommodate the Kinect and maintain their (still too high) price point. Every cross-plat game simply would perform way better on my base PS4.
It was not until I got a One X [on a very good sale] that I started playing Xbox again. All games perform so much better... Even the controller, that only got a “minor” upgrade, became so much pleasant to operate. The Ones launch controller shoulder buttons are plasticky and clickey, while the One X controller is... pure perfection.
Funny thing is I originally got the X because of some XOX enhanced BC games + 4K BluRay support. It’s very likely I would not have bought one at all had Sony added 4K playback to the 4Pro.
Anyways my sorting order:
One X
360
OG
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One
Series X is shaping up to take #1 spot, hope it does not disappoint.
360 for me. It's was the first console I played games online so there's that plus the library was so good. With exclusives like the Forza Horizon series and Gears to surprise classics like the TMNT and Simpsons Arcade games it was for me just the best Xbox console.
360 for me with a tie between the One and the OG Xbox for 2nd place. The 360 feels just more like a games console to me but was still super versatile in what you could with the hardware. Still one of my most played systems to this day. My One/X is great too but I'm super soft on the good old 360. I really hope they continue to keep the servers up. I love logging into 360 and seeing what games I can grab for cheap during a sale. Though the last few months, they haven't been updating the 360 deals tab. Excited to see how they do with Series X
The 360 for me, Xbox at its best and at its peak, so many great games and follow ups of great IP’s. I think there was 4 gears of war games alone in the 360 generation and that’s for starters. A close second the Xbox one x, just for shear 4K power and 4K Blu-ray in this visual quality age.
Xbox One X for me, I suppose because of Gamepass has came into it's own on the Console... However the 360 was obviously a better performing console in the console wars, with a steady stream of amazing games which continued throughout the generation....
360 and One are a tie for me. OG had unique games going for it.
Although the original Xbox blew my mind with the Halo franchise, I definitely prefer the 360 first with it’s awesome library and the Xbox One a close 2nd! 😊 very close though!
@FraserG I was super excited when I got my original Xbox One (the Elite bundle). I didn't have an Xbox nor a 360 but I was very interested in the 360 last generation although I only bought a Wii. When I got it, Xbox One was a 2 in 1 console because of the backwards compatibility which debuted with Rare Replay.
I chose Xbox One X because it took the whole concept to the next level and it has spoiled me so much. I've been an Xbox fan for just a few years but I already have a dream game library... and I've been playing with the Elite controller since day one (and sold the original Xbox One).
I voted for OG because it was my first non-Nintendo console and I had such a blast with it. I got it in the spring of 2002 with Star Wars Obi-Wan. Early Xbox Live was such a blast too. I sunk so many hours in Crimson Skies multiplayer. And of course I fell in love with the Halo series on the OG Xbox. Finally, there’s still nothing like a huge LAN party, and Halo LAN parties were the best.
The 360 slightly beats out the OG original Xbox 180. Both had great exclusive games but the 360 felt like it had more and higher quality games. That appealed to me anyway. Coupled with a great UI, eventually party chat and a bunch of other great features, it was easily the best of Xbox.
Sadly Xbox One has been a joke from the jump and the only redeeming things it has ever done was help birth Halo MCC and 2 or 3 formerly exclusive games. And select backwards compatibility with a few important games I like.
I gotta go with the OG Xbox. So many great memories with that thing.
By default I have to say the Xbox1 since it is the first one I that I personally owned. I have spent a lot of time playing the other two just never bought them. Pretty excited about the Series X coming soon!
I've only ever owned the Xbox One so I guess it wins by default. But considering how it can play One, tons of 360 and even a few original xbox games, I don't feel like I'm missing out.
The controller feels nice, I love how quiet it runs when I'm watching movies or netflix, and I think the Xbox team has shown that they really care about their fans. It's the console I play on the most.
Xbox One. Although I had a 360, I couldn't enjoy it at the time. Now I've been playing a lot my One, exploring tons of games, enjoying Game Pass and, of course, playing a big number of retro games. It's a perfect package for me
The Xbone is definitely the better made console, and the OG xbox was a great "little" console too, but the 360 (despite being a POS in terms of reliability) had a far better library of games.
Most franchises had better releases on that console. Better first party games, with the likes of Halo and Crackdown, and third party games, with the likes of Mass Effect and Fallout.
The 360 also set many standards in consoles. Accounts, achievements, invites, party chats, music streaming, etc. Stuff that took the PS3 years to catch up on, and that the Xbone and PS4 rely on (and that people are still crying out for on Switch.)
Before the 360, our gaming group would alternate between all the consoles, whichever had the game we wanted, but the 360 made xbox our primary console. So while today you could buy either and xbox or playstation and have a very similar experience (xbox still wins because of BC, but that's the only feature advantage it has), the 360 was just lightyears ahead of the competition.
Is probably the One X for me. I didn't get an original Xbox until much later, and while I loved the 360 early on, I did have 2 of the things break on me. More than half of that gen I was pretty much exclusively using a PS3 as well so there's that.
I probably don't get as much use out of it as I should but I really love the One X. I'm always impressed by how quiet it is. The graphical quality of something like RDR2 is notably above what the PS4 Pro can do. And as mentioned a lot the likes of Game Pass and back compat mean there's always something to check out on it.
No question for me, it's the 360 !!
I have to go with the original Xbox on this one. Obviously, I've loved my Xbox 360 and Xbox One as well (don't have an Xbox One X as I'm holding out for the Xbox Series X at this point) but the hype and the reality of playing the original Xbox is hard to replicate in my mind. There's something to be said about getting a group of people together in the same room/house and having 16-player LAN parties. Xbox Live is awesome; don't get me wrong. I mean I was online with Mech Assault at midnight the night it launched. But I'll always miss the party aspect of getting everybody together in one place and playing Halo for hours on end lol. Good times!
@BlueOcean I was so excited when I got my Xbox One as well! I collected it from Tesco about a month after launch, and had to walk through the car park with a big, green £400 box... I had eyes glaring at me from all sides! Thought I was going to get robbed
But yeah, great memories! Looking forward to doing it again with the Xbox Series X.
Hi there fellow gamers. I only had the OG Xbox and the 360, so it´s the Xbox 360 for me. Turning on the system and playing Project Gotham Racing 3 (one of my first games) for the first time, I was like: "Is this even real?" Good times. And with games like Gears of War trilogy, Alan Wake, Test Drive Unlimited(underrated game imo), Lost Odissey, Ninja Gaiden 2, PGR4, Magna Carta 2, Dead or Alive 4, Mass Effect trilogy, and Forza Motorsport 4(wich was my first Forza game it it blew me away) the 360 really sold me on that generation. I still got my PS3 of course, but I loved my 360. Such good memories. Cheers, stay safe and happy gaming to us all.
I got the 360 too late to really have much fondness for it (near the launch of the One), and though I didn't get a One until 2015 it's definitely my favourite of the two I've played (counting the One X among them).
The original! I loved it
Original Xbox for me. It was the first time since the Super Nintendo that I was genuinely astonished by a console. It was as a console that truly innovated. Just like Nintendo's best.
I guess I'm a normie, but it's the 360 for me. Of course I never bought an Xbone. The 360 was the easy winner of its generation for me. Between Wii, PS3 and 360, all of which I own, I played the most on my 360, followed by Wii and then PS3.
360 for me because I never was into the original Xbox and when I got the Xbox one around release I had nothing but issues with it and returned it about 7 or 8 times because a load of issues,
360 for me (even though I hate the actual machine itself...on number 8). The xbone/ps4 gen has been mostly boring. A few gems here and there but nothing that really made me rack up serious hours.
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