I can't believe how many articles like this we're getting lol

I'n my humble opinion Xbox/Microsoft changed things by far for the worse.

If Microsoft hadn't entered into things online would be free (neither Nintendo nor Sony would have charged) and the plague that is DLC probably wouldn't exist or would have come about in a much less obnoxious form like large expansions type add ons as was the case on PC prior to DLC.

In Microsoft's credit I admit they did push the online landscape forward but they were largely only following the trends on PC and those things would have matured on console anyways but perhaps not as fast.

But times change and these days so many gamers first console was a 360 so it's hard to explain to them why things were better before.

So click the disagree button as hard as your fingers can, I already know my opinions aren't popular heh.

Lmao this article

The PS2 is better and that came out a generation before.

PS2, PS4, Dreamcast, & SNES are better in my opinion.

360's vision was second to none. Great developer support, bolstered fps and online, multimedia capabilities, IMO the better ui, my favorite controller, mostly better graphics, etc. It was definitely my favorite, but I'm going PS4 this gen. Xbox had a winning formula but they definitely fucked it up with Kinect.

If it weren't for paid online and RROD 360 would have trashed PS3 last-gen.

I loved the 360. Though really I have fonder memories of original Xbox, N64, and NES.

The 360 was a good console. The issue at the start was the failure rate. I owned 2 that I purchased before the new warranty kicked in to cover RROD I then also bought a PS3. As consoles go I still think the PS3 was better simply because of uncharted and in the end TLOU

360? Didn't that console finish last of it's gen? How can it have been the best anything, when it couldn't beat it's own competition?

Sounds like the only console they have ever owned, heh.

Ps2, ps3, ps4, n64, snes.....pretty much every console ever made other than maybe Sega saturn

It is until the new consoles allow me to rip cds and play music in the background while playing.

The PS2 was the bet console, then the Xbox 360. Not because of specs but because of the amount of games. The 360 had the best and safest online experience.

Will there ever be a better console than the God forsaken red rings of death? Seriously? What do 360 have on both PS3 and PS4?

All Playstation consoles are better in my eyes.

Example of why some personal opinions should be kept personal...

Who's approving these flamebait articles?

PS4

The 360 was great but come on, it is not the best console of all time.

The SNES. Because mine never broke.

ps3

the fanboyism is strong on this one

Baaaaahahahahahahahahahah

NES,SNES,PC Engine,Genesis,Saturn,Dreamcas t(It's 360's grandpa) PS3,DS,Game Boy,PSP. Plenty are better than 360. I own one own many games but it's pretty low to me on the all time greats.

While not my fave system ever,I honestly put SNES as the all time best system ever made.

The title and article should be: Will there ever be a better MS console than Xbox 360?

Next Gen Mark my words and i shall be ready to buy at release

Lol @ the headline

For me:
1. NES
2. N64
3.Xbox 360
4.Xbox one
5. Snes
6.ps one
7. Dreamcast
8. Ps4
9. Wii
10.GameCube
11. Wii u

all playstation consoles are much better

PS3 was.

Dreamcast

Reading this was painful. Some highlights:

"The console that I left in 2013 was not the same console that I purchased in 2006. That’s both metaphorical and literal, because I technically owned at least three 360s over those years"

...And that's something to be proud of? Indeed, it evolved quite a bit over the years, but seriously, dude? You're basically saying, "the hardware was a trash, but I gladly kept on going because I had no interest in trying anything else." This right here? This is blind consumerism.

"I think the fact that so many people were pushing Microsoft into developing backwards compatibility for the Xbox One shows how popular the 360 was, and still is"

No one doubts it was popular, but Sony is also being pushed to make backwards compatibility a reality. It's not something only Microsoft is being pushed to doing.

As far as a better console, I can name a few:

PlayStation- GREAT machine. Many, many games. The underdog during a time when Sony didn't even want to enter gaming but Kutaragi saw its utility. So many unique games that introduced you to games you didn't even know you liked.

PlayStation 2- though not as robust of an online as even the first Xbox, it had so many games and memorable titles that it didn't matter. The profound number of quality exclusives also made it a greater pickup. This was the a continuation of the PSOne's great Japanese catalog. It was a great console by Western and Eastern standards that introduced gaming to a more mature audience. The Xbox 360 is not.

Super Nintendo- Whatever, call me a nostalgic fool. The Super Nintendo was incredible. Many of the experiences have been very difficult to recapture here. Had Xbox 360 been created sooner, I might say it was better, but SNES had great games that redefined a lot of games.

Nintendo 64- This one will get a lot of hate, but it was arguably the last great social console where you were actually social. I remember coming home from school with friends and just gaming in good company with awesome food. Fridays were such great events, especially with our monthly wrestling nights playing No Mercy where emotions ran high and our friendship was tested in ways that Mario Kart 64 couldn't even begin to understand.

Sort of the PlayStation 3- Totally up in the air depending on your tastes. Xbox 360 was almost my main console last generation, but once Sony got the exclusives rolling, they killed it. And year after year, it was just insane momentum. The console was slower and that was frustrating at times. The Xbox 360 also had a better controller in my opinion. It was a great console for certain. I just feel that PS3 had plenty of exclusives for the most niche tastes of all platforms last time around.

I take no issue with opinions. He has a great point in saying it evolved and took social gaming to a new plateau. It's that he asks a rhetorical question with so little insight on what's happening on the other side of the fence. Seriously, he jumps from N64 to Xbox 360? Sounds like he is clueless and, with such limited experience of the industry, has very little place in gaming journalism.

Obviously this person have not even heard of the PS1. The console that change the entire gaming industry.

FF7 GT, MGS1 alone change the way games are made.

Must be young.

PS2 and SNES can fight it out as the top 2 of all time.

PS1 and NES can fight it out for the 3 and 4 spot.

Lot of nostalgia going on in the comments. All systems have had their pros & cons. To pick one over the other as the best ever is ridiculous.

Xbox 360 is still the best console ever made.

I know it sold alot but I wasn't a big fan of the PS2. Once the original Xbox came out, I stopped playing my PS2 almost altogether. The only console for me that might rank higher then the Xbox 360 is the Dreamcast and the original Xbox. Hell I probably put more time on my gamecube then I did my PS2.

My 360 was L4D machine
It was OK. No PlayStation though ( any of them).
It's so Vanilla by comparison

There already is. It's called the PlayStation 3

I think metacritic would show PS3 had better games.

Yes, the Xbox One

Super nes al the way!

Yes Ps4 next question

Definitely my favorite console ever is the 360, and I own and have owned ever console since the Atari 2600. PS3 was mainly used as a Blu Ray player, and a few Sony exclusives, but everything else, especially if the game was online was bought on the 360. I have logged more hours on the 360 than any other console. Previous gen, I owned a PS2, still do somewhere in my attic, but never liked it's hardware, most of its games made me nauseous, with the low res shimmering, all the multiplats I bought on the Xbox original, so going forward, I don't see a console which gave me so many hours of enjoyment coming out. I have a PS4, Wiiu, X1, so far mostly Xbox getting played but nowhere near as much as the 360 gamewise, but live tv, apps, I really enjoy.

I think xb1 is on its way to bettering the 360. For me anyway. Still some way to go though.

Oh man, if the 360 is your point of reference for greatness, I am not sure how long you've been gaming. The author mentions the N64 and it is a wonderful system but not a starting point.
If you mention gaming greatness, you'd have to start with the SNES and the Sega MD, a true golden era and a start to mainstream gaming, even if the NES was the first to truly make an impact sales wise and introduce gaming to a lot of consumers.
My favorite system of all times is the Sega Saturn, only to be rivaled with the Dreamcast and the PS1. I do hold the ps2 in high esteem. These are gaming greats. I just don't see the original xbox or the 360 in the same league.
What innovative games did they bring forward?
They probably enhanced the popularity of FPS games, and I personally couldn't care less for the genre. Just my humble opinion.

Is this article serious the nes,snes,n64,ps1and ps2 were all better systems hell I'd say the ps3 was better too because of the many high quality exclusives it had compared to 360. The only thing 360 had that made it better was live which is because of the times we now live in and advancements like that weren't available during the nes, snes,ps1 etc era.

Lol.

PS3 is my all time favorite console and I started gaming in 1990 on the NES.. Though I did take a sabbatical from gaming between 2000 to 2007.

Who is writing these articles?! Lol

There have been and are presently better consoles than the XBox 360. What a ludicrous thing to say.

Lol I'm still laughing at this.

Yes. Almost every console released other than the 3 Xbox

Almost every console. PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, NES, SNES, N64, Atari 2600...

ps2, n64, snes, ps4, dreamcast, ps3(for me), gamecube...so yes

Every console except the Xbox one

Ps1, ps2, ps3, ps4, snes, n64, genesis.....need I go on? Plenty of consoles better.

Is this article a joke?

PS4, PS3, PS2, OG Xbox, Dreamcast, PS1, N64, Snes, Mega Drive, Nes, Master System, Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64.
Shall I continue?
Best console is subjective, but calling a system that had an approximate 50% failure rate at one point and finished last is just insane.

Lol yes the ps2, the nes were ten times a better system then the 360 back when full functional games were released not the broken piece of shit for games these days

The 360 wasn't even the best of its generation.

1. SNES
2. PS2
3. PSX
4. NDS
5. NES
6. PS3
7. N64
8. 360
9. 3DS
10. Wii

expect the ps4 to make the list too at some point.

Nothing beats the Megadrive and the SNES. Although the NES and Master System were great it wasn't until these came along and moved the arcade into your home. That era was a game changer to how people consumed games.

The 360 is probably the console i have played on the most in my lifetime, but it's not the best.

Too many bad things have come into gaming, and it mainly happened during the 360 / PS3 era.

Based on how much fun i had, my order goes like this.
PS2
Dreamcast
Xbox 360
Mega Drive
Master System

PS2
Dreamcast
PS1
Microgenious
PS3
Xbox (OG)
Xbox 360
N64
GameCube
SEGA Genesis

Yet to be surpassed

I'd say ps2 is the greatest console ever -- it's market dominance allowed it to have exclusive after exclusive -- Sony had some of the best 1st and 3rd party support-- I'd put psx and snes as second followed by n64

Where the f are these articles coming from?! King of all consoles, best console ever and similar crap. I don't want to offend the fanboys but who the hell thinks X360 deserves such praise and why exactly????

Maybe early years 360 was great. But after you've exchanged your 5th refurb and can't use Netflix because it's behind a BS pay wall, it hard to sing any praises for 360.

My friends and I all started off with 360 back in the ME, Gears, Halo, LO, etc days (when 360 was truly a great console) then switched to PS3 because MS and Greenberg thought customers could be exploited like no other customer in history and treated us like complete morons. Shouldn't have put up such an all encompassing paywall and should have given people NEW 360s after the 3rd gets returned. It's called a lemon policy. Not sure why MS refused to use it.

Literally my 5 friends with 360 all switched over to PS3. None of them would never go back to a microsoft console. I personally don't care that much between MS and Sony. I note that my original PS1,PS2, and PS3 still work but I was really planning on buying the best price/power console which happened to be a PS4 this gen (which may be the gen to end all gens). 99% of the best games are multiplats.

"Will there ever be a better console than the Xbox 360?"

haaaaaaaaaaaaa, clickbait at it's finest. SNES said hello!

off topic : seem to me editors fill in wiggets space on N4G.COM with "anything" to fill in the article wigget space.
most of the time we see same article 3 times within a month disguise as another article such as
"Will the Wii-u surpass ps4 in sales" or "Destiny in trouble by not beating call of duty sales" " can neo ps4 save Sony" (when was sony in trouble?) someone must be getting paid for repeat flame bait each month, this cycle is notice now since 2005.
we all know that is Flamebait BS but they approve it anyway for hits.
where do they get these cock-in-bull stories from?? Mischievous elf??

if they making money with BS lies and BS rumors daily and monthly where do i sign up?? i got thousands of dollars worth of lies i can add on here.

don't take me seriously guys ( this what im noticing) on most gaming sites since 2005 lot of lies, contradictions and repeat article in disguise.

wonder do video game developers really care about our comments or even read our comments?? answer : probably not and don't care long as we are their mind controlled gaming slave.

food for thought.

i rmr when all my friends got red ring of death...but not me, i was always a member of the dark side :) (PS)

Yes

Considering it was never the best to begin with, obviously yes. There were better consoles before it, better consoles during it's existence, and there have been better consoles released subsequently.

I don't like the new comments section. I make comments that don't post. Lame as ****
-edit. Uhgg. Nevermind. New ones at the top now I see....

I think the Xbox One is way better than the Xbox360. The 360 had serious Hardware issues ( I and probably 90% of all other 360 owners had at least 1 RoD or shredded discs the Hardware was just a disaster) and was loud like a turbine whereas the Xbox One is the quietest console of all I ever owned( at least of the consoles with a disc drive, I don't talk about the ones with modules) and the XboxOne Hardware is build to last probably for the next 100years.

At least for me this things are extremly important things, I really don't want to waste a lot of money for a new console after just a few years only because the Hardware is junk and the sounds of the 360 really often lessened my gaming experience, this noise only was solved after like 5 years with an update and you could at least install the games later on.

And don't let us forgeth the later years of the Xbox 360 with way way way to much focus on this Kinect crap.

In conclusion the Xbox360 was a good console yes but it had some really huge issues and in my opinion the XboxOne is about to make almost everything better than the Xbox360 did. I my opinion a lot of people forgeth or underestimate how big the improvements from the 360 to the XboxOne really are still solely based on the terrible introduction of this otherwise great reliable console.