The first to enter gaming into the HD arena, was Microsoft with their successor to the original Xbox, the Xbox 360.

The 360 was plagued by the dreaded Red Ring of Death, three red lights on the power indicator than noted that the system had a "General Hardware Failure" and had to be brought in for repairs. Microsoft were slow to even acknowledge the issue, but eventually extended the warranty to three years to combat the problem; while redesigning the internals, giving us the Falcon and then later, the Jasper. Even with this problem, it hard to ignore the sheer amount of great games for the system, in particular, exclusive games like Gears of War, Fable and Mass Effect. And that's not even mentioning Live Arcade, an area specialising in smaller niche titles that can go places that other big budget games might fear to tread.

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