Xbox 360 Fanboy

my observation is that those who had PS2's generally upgraded to a 360. on the other hand those who dint bought a PS3 and are hellbent to hold their ground ( even though its it quicksand that they are on ) so its really hard to convert them.

either way its nothing new. console gamers of old ( i.e from the PS2 era ) know the logical choice to continue solid gaming is the 360 and not the PS3. those buying PS3's on the other hand have media/folding as a high priority so not much can be said about them. meaning on of my friends is so happy that he is able to play a PS3 game which is a 1 year old port of a 360 game which was a 2 year old port of a PC game - FEAR. seriously theres no hope for them in the gaming world !

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MS should PAY me for advertisement seeing as how the living room, xbox 360 and my 52 inch HDTV is pretty much the centerpiece of my apartment.

Ive converted a few people who were wii or ps3 die hards by just letting them screw around with my setup for a few hours.

Now if MS could just keep me with a WORKING SYSTEM I would be set.

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so i was humping my Ps3 one day...and got bored.

then i bought a xbox 360, maaaan i found there was so much more to do with that.

i am a happy man. = )

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Back when the PS3 was first revealed at the 05 E3, I became a huge Sony fanboy. I had a PS2 from launch and a used Xbox, but barely played the latter. The PS3 demos (lighting on the CGI Alfred Molina, the next-gen 'Getaway' downtown London rendered footage, the promised higher power and promises made me shun any friends that were hell-bent on converting me to the Microsoft side.

In time, the pointless shutdown of website WWW.Lik-sang.com by the hands of jealous Sonyites, the pricepoint of the PS3, the lack of interesting game news, the rehashed Dualshock controller bastardized into stealing the Wiimote technology, the dearth of creativity on Sony's part just got me really angered and fed up.

I began to feel that without reason, Sony decided they had only themselves to answer to, and they could decide what the consumer would want simply because they offered it.
In short, Sony has become an elitist island to itself and I'd had enough of it. Nothing kept me in the Sony camp, so I found much greener pastures, better content, GAMES, and a human side to gaming once again in Xbox 360.

Where at one point I made fun of hoodie-and-blazer wearing douches, I found that clothes don't make the man, and Xbox became my new home.

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I've never been interested in the 360 for its first year of existence. That was until I saw Gears Of War... Sure I could wait for it to come out on the PC, but a big reason for picking up this console is to ditch MS out of my computer. Since a lot of PC games goes to the 360 (and vice versa) I decided that a 360 premium (with Ridge Racer, GRAW and GoW for 449$ CAD... thank you PS3 launch day) was the way to go in order to be able to single boot into Linux on my PC and still be able to game. After all it was the price of a new graphic card. So I don't care if the new computers with Vista and DX10 kick my console's ass regarding graphics; I still have one hell of a machine for a fraction of the price. And the developers know exactly what they are developing for (if you're not convinced this is an advantage go see the IGN AU comparison of Shadowrun on both platforms).

Only downside... quality seems really crappy even though I haven't had to send it to repair yet.

Oh and don't worry PS3 fanboys, you too got one hell of a machine.

Cheers!

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I will concede this; I plan to buy a Playstation 3 if and ONLY if there are no less than five exclusive titles I must play.

I refuse to mention titles here because I wouldn't want them to come to Sony (Let's just say I'm a Konami fan outside of Metal Gear;) I'm just saying if they did and they had no chance to come to the 360, I'd have to have five such titles to push me into considering the console.

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My buddy had a xbox, I said it was rubbish, he got a 360 when they came out and played PDZ, then I fell in love with teh system.
Months later I got 1 and then Oblivion came out ! I couldnt stop playing that. I made the right choice.

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Yeah, I used to be a Nintendo fanboy. I was raised on a SNES and N64. In high school, I was still a Nintendo diehard when I got a GameCube and bashed all my friends for buying an Xbox. Lots of my favorite games of all-time were on the GameCube (SSMB, Eternal Darkness, RE4, Metroid Prime, etc). But....as time wore on and as I kept going to my friends' Halo 1 LANs, I knew I had to get an Xbox for Halo 2. Ever since then, it's been Xbox and Xbox 360 all the way!

I still like Nintendo and respect what they've done with the DS and Wii, but my gaming tastes have changed. Xbox 360 games have filled (and will fill) the void where no other consoles' games could even come close to touching.

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I am a similar convert. Loved my PS2 was fairly willing to wait for the PS3 but got sick of the wait and the high price so I got a 360 and I am sure glad I did. Rainbow Six Vegas on Live is what a video gaming experience should be.

I don't regret my PS2 though and I am going to get MLB 07 for it because MLB 2K7 is just not a good game and I need my baseball fix.

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I'm gonna get hated for this, but up until a few months back I was completely against any microsoft console. I'm a Nintendo fanboy, always have been, always will be.
I had a PS2 last gen, but by then I wasnt really into gaming any more, the death of the Sega just made me lose interest, and the n64, whilst being a great console, was costly and I was a latecomer to that console, so finding cartridges was hard.

Anyway, I then got the Gamecube. Ah gaming was back, Screw the PS2, oh and whats this...Xbox? forget it, its huge and I'm happy with my cube.

fast forward to current gen. I got a Wii. Sure their great, but due to the fact I have a tiny room I keep the Wii downstairs, the family love wii sports. Looked into a 360, finally got one, and havnt looked back since. I currently only have Crackdown and Halo 2 but plan on getting a lot more games when I find the money. A new fanboy joining the ranks =]

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I, like a lot of post sony fanboys, marveled at the 2005 E3 press conference. Killzone,the Getaway, and the knowlede of Ratchet and Clank and a new game from naughty dog only wetted my apitite.

I also balked at the Xbox 360, it's rushed launched, it's paltry hard drive, and the numerous failing systems. As a lifelong PS2 fanboy I took every chance I could to point out the 360's failings, as I always had with the original Xbox.

But slowly I was turned, and saw that the majority of really interesting games were heading to the 360. And it would appear in the long run I was right. Sony mistepped left and right with the PS3, sealing it's failure (for me) with a 600$ price point.

And now am happily a 360 owner, and It may very well become my favorite system ever!

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I haven't owned a console since the original 8 bit Nintendo. Then a quirky set of circumstance conspired to get me interested again in console gaming:

* I saw GH1 and GH2 on a friend's PS2. Wasn't going to buy a console for one game, no matter how good.

* I saw the 360's marketplace, Live Arcade, game portfolio, and all around quality gaming experience, was impressed.

* I heard GH2 was coming to the 360, and completely understood the benefits of 5.1 sound, HDTV, downloadable content, etc.


So you add up:

quality game titles +
outstanding online platform +
good hardware capabilities

and you have yourself a 360 convert! That's all there is to it. Now if my console DVD drive will stop scratching/breaking discs I *might* stay a convert.

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I won my 360 from the every10minutes.com contest and before winning had no intention of ever purchasing a MS console (I was anti-XBOX simply because it was MS and thought that helping Microsoft might push Nintendo the way of Sega so I held my money.

After getting the 360 and experiencing the community of XBox live (especially when it first launched and only a handfull of people were on 360s). That hooked me. I liked the PS2 but never felt that it had a good Dollar to Game hour value. With online play - I've found games last longer and you can actually rent then purchase certain games /Gears/Rainbow 6/Oblivion.

I am definitely a convert - although - I think they need to stop price gouging the accessories. The HDD and the Vision camera are far too overpriced.

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I was exactly the same way.

I was grinding along, playing FFXII on my PS2 when a friend of mine showed off his brand new 360 and copy of Gears of War.

I was smitten.

Once by birthday came around, I got myself a Premium console and Gears and have been shooting up a storm since.

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I was a Nintendo fanboy since the NES days all the way to the N64. I was going to get a PS2 at launch of that system and a GC but I looked at the Xbox and got one at launch instead. I never regreted that. Halo lan games on the university network was the best. We could play anyone on campus. Some of the best times I ever had in gaming. I've been a huge Xbox supporter ever since. Not a fanboy, just a huge supporter.

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I started out a Nintendo fanboy, talking down to any Genesis-loving fools in elementary school. But over the years, I ended up just buying most systems that came out, be it Nintendo, Sega, Sony or Microsoft. Some systems I've had a better relationship with than others (loved my SNES, PS1, import Saturn and now 360). But as I've aged, I've come to appreciate all systems for what they offer (except the PS3, that's just a waste)
:)

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I was converted to xbox in the last generation. I was looking for a gaming system after getting burned by the Atari Jaguar and compared the PS1 versus the Nintendo 64. What won me over was the library of games on the PS1, so I bought one along with some Need for Speed game and played the system for 5 years. When the PS2 was announced of course I wanted one. I had never even heard of the xbox. I was married at the time with a new baby daughter and there was no money to spare. Luckily a friend of mine was financially flush at the time, and wound up purchasing a PS2, an xbox, and a Gamecube. The Gamecube (which I later purchased from him) was a good system but had little software I wanted. His PS2 was one of the original systems and continually failed on him. It wouldn't eject his game so he naturally played his xbox more. The more and more he bitched about his PS2 and praised the xbox the more I wanted one. Finally I was able to get one when the price dropped to $199. I never looked back at Playstation again and jumped on the 360 train as soon as I could place a preorder.

Now the poor guy can't afford a 360 and is sitting home with a broken knee, beating the hell out of Morrowind. Last time I talked to him he was at level 102.

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I my self have always been a big sega fan. But then sega died.
D=

after sega left I tryied playstion1, found it ok but nothing great. Then the N64, oh ya gottes some awsome games but still nothing epic. Then it was a Gamecube and a PS2. PS2 made me sad and Gamecube only gave me one or two games I realy liked.


Then I found the xbox1. I was home agien, and the 360 hasn't failed me yet.
=D

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I was ready to pay the $600 price tag for the PS3 and wait a lil while for it and keep playing Madden and NCAA for PS2...Then my friend ask me did I want to buy his barely played xbox360 premium system for 300 dollars...I thought about it because this was coming out my PS3 and HDTV fund...I got the system and before I took it home stopped by GameStop and purchased NCAA 07 and before I could finish a game I gave my PS2 away for free because I didn't need it...I am so impressed with Xbox that I can't imagine paying $600 for the PS3 when my xbox does so much more like streaming files off of my computer and xbox live...I got a 64in HDTV so it is hard for anyone to convince me to get the PS3 with a smaller TV...I just hope my console don't break down...

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interestingly, I never owned an XBox. Never really cared about Halo, owned every console from Sony and Nintendo. Last year however, I started to realize that the 360 had a lot of games I wanted to play. Not much looked good on the PS3 or this Wii thing. So I bought a 360 when Gears came out, got a few other games. There is STILL not a SINGLE exclusive PS3 or Wii game that I am jealous of. Not one.

Okay, maybe Metroid Prime 3...

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