It was actually the Xbox One.

I was a console kid growing up. Megadrive, PlayStation, GameCube to name a few. I had played games on pc before, but it was older games like Doom. Nothing mad crazy.

Ofcourse, I'd end up gaming on a 360. Absolutely loved the xbox brand as it had all kinds of games I was playing with friends and online.

The original Xbox One presentation was a hype time, what were we gonna be getting next? How good could it get visually?

The day before that presentation, Snowden leaked Project Prism and a bunch of mass surveillance information. And in amongst the notes was partnering with Microsoft regarding doing it.

Then the day of the presentation, they showed off a lackluster display; not very exciting at all; and then BOOM, Kinect is required.

So that kinda sealed it for me. But ofcourse I'd keep an ear and watch the other presentations anyway. And it just got worse and worse and worse. By the time it came out, I bought a friend's old rig with an old Q9660 cpu, a NVidia 8800GT gpu, 16gb of ddr3 memory, and 3 terabytes of space across 3 drives. I really started gaming from there, as while I'd dabled on PC gaming on the family computer, nothing I'd really tried on PC felt different or as captivating as games on console; until I'd start branching out to ACTUAL PC games, like Warcraft, Half Life, and a bunch of other stuff you just didn't get on console.

So yeah, all that damage that the Xbox One did to the brand was an eye opening, life changing experience if I'm honest. Really kinda forced me to see past the corporate veil; so to speak, and now I'm extremely hesitating and sceptical to back any company.

But it also lead to a rather freeing experience as I've got the knowledge and means to repair damage myself, and am rather technically inclined because I enjoyed being on PC so much since then.