perception of xbox

i remember when xbox was a joke. everyone thought it was going to fail, the controller was ridiculously huge, the console looked like a charred brick... the launch games, save for halo, were not very good. and the price was really expensive.fast forward to today, and there were some great games for the console (not just halo). that there weren't any good games must have been simply a bad perception similar to the flack that the psp gets for 'not having any games'.it had great support from sega and other japanese companies like from software and tecmo, but also some really interesting stuff like stranger's wrath and fable.it's hard not to feel sorry for the platform, as it was only meant to exist to establish the 'xbox' brand, and gain a consumer base. but MS did throw a lot of money at decent developers (which they're still doing now).it's funny how xbox is just accepted now (or '360' as people more often say).perception of xbox
For the Xbox coming out so late last generation, it really did hold it's own ground.perception of xbox
the Xbox was by no means a bad system, it was a good system.it just faced the same problem faced by other great systems like the dreamcast and gamecube..... it had the PS2 as a competitor.we all know how the PS2 was selling, there were alot of great games on it, it had thebrand name and legacy its difficult to go up against that.youve got to commend MS for not abandoning the platform despite the somewhatlackluster sales of the original Xbox.
I love my Xbox. And I agree that it's hard to comprehend the argument that there were no good games for the console. There were a ton of great games for it.