Prediction: The Xbox won't age well as a console.

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Besides, 7 out of the 17 Xbox games you listed are first-person shooters. That's 42%. Ten years from now, how many average people are going to seek out Halo 2 or Unreal Championship 2 when they could be playing Halo 9 or Unreal 15?

That means almost half of the top-notch Xbox games you listed will be obsolete and uninteresting a decade from now...to the average person. Again, not that they're bad games. They're perfectly fine games, but Joe Schmoe won't care about what he considers to be old, generic army shooting game #27 or old, generic driving game #39.

How many of you go back to the first Call of Duty or the first Grand Theft Auto now that the latest versions are out? It just doesn't happen...yet people still seek out and play Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and the old Super Mario games. That's the difference between dark, gritty, complex games vs. games that have mass appeal.

You actually have a good point here, but it applies to Gamecube too. Nintendo "updates" their games with the best of them. Pikmin, Mario Power Tennis, and Metroid Prime are going to be re-released for Wii, and RE4 is already out for it (obviously). Smash Bros. Melee will be dropped like a bad habit when the fourth Smash game comes out, if it isn't already (the original on N64 isn't exactly in high demand these days).

Xbox also has plenty of games that aren't going to be obsolete anytime soon. He just didn't make that kind of a list. Consider:

Voodoo Vince
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Tron 2.0: Killer App
Psychonauts
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without A Pulse
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Indigo Prophecy
Kung Fu Chaos
Breakdown
Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
Still Life
Toejam & Earl III
Sid Meier's Pirates!
etc.