I've owned (briefly, very briefly) an XB and a 360.
I don't "hate" them, nor do I think that those who enjoy them & prefer them are all fools for doing so.
I wouldn't consider myself a Sony Pony -but- through the generations, I've always strongly *preferred* Sony's consoles.
Why?
Part of it's
sticking with + going with what you know. After a decade(?) of absence from any gaming...I decided that I wanted to get back into it again. At this time - that left me with the choice of getting a PS2 or an XB. I didn't know shit about either one. It was the holiday season, and - nobody had either one in stock; so, I decided to just get whichever one I found 1st (a PS2).
Like riding a bike - after a day or 2 of gaming - it was feeling like I'd never stopped. My favorite genre has always been (
insert whatever prefix/descriptor/country, etc that you like here ___:) RPG's.
As I played & learned - I found that Sony's consoles seemed to get (either exclusively or multi plat) the vast majority of these.
And it was good
I've also (and it could just be because I'd used it 1st & was used to it) always liked the PS' controllers a lot better.
Years later - after having lost my (non-dominant) hand, and spending enough time to make a fair evaluation & comparison - trying to use both the PS3 & the 360's controllers 1-handed...I again found that, for me, Sony's controller was much more comfortable, better sized, shaped, and laid-out for my one-handed gaming.
Who knows?
Would my thoughts & preferences have been any different, had I found an XB before a PS2?
Possibly.
But, in all honesty, I expect that it wouldn't have taken me very long to realize that MS' consoles constantly received far less of the games + kinds of games that *I* wanted to play.
That /=/ one being better/worse than the other, though - it's actually just about following & sticking w/ the *console* (regardless of the company logo on it:) that gets the higher # of games you want to play on it; simple math