I’ve owned every Xbox since the original hulking black box from 2001 — the one that sounded like a jet engine every time you booted up Halo. I’ve always played and owned other consoles (because being a fanboy for a multi-billion dollar corporation is stupid), but since the Xbox 360 era, it’s been my main gaming platform, mostly because it’s the one on which I made the most friends/connections. Even as Xbox lost the ground it once clawed away from Sony over the past two generations, I’ve stuck with it. But now, in a post-cross-play world where those connections no longer depend on one console or platform, I’m starting to feel like the next Xbox console might not be made for me.
