Xbox 360

As a video game system, this is clearly an incredible piece of hardware. Having been a die-hard Sony customer for well over a decade, I wasn’t such a fan of the Xbox when microsoft first introduced it as competition to the Sony Playstation 2. Then came the next generation battle. Sony came out with the Playstation 3 console and Microsoft followed right up with the Xbox 360. These releases marked the balance of power shifting away from Sony. Prior to the next generation releases from Sony and Microsoft, Sony had always held its own as the system with better game selection and better user-friendly features. When Xbox 360 was released it was clear that game developers were favoring Microsoft. I myself preferred the Xbox 360 just because of it’s lower priced models and its lighter hardware. Now that the two have been out for a few years, the Xbox has become a multimedia powerhouse, allowing users to run their entire home entertainment system through it, much like a computer. While Sony has many of the same capabilities, Microsoft has been making computers for decades, and clearly has the most user-friendly system hardware out there.