Sell your Xbox 360 games for cash.

Microsoft’s second home console launched in the US and Canada on November 22, 2005, deliberately a full year ahead of Sony and Nintendo’s next-generation hardware, with Europe and Japan following in December. It was the first console with a built-in proper home menu (shop, friends list, customizable Gamer Cards) rather than just a settings screen, the first to ship a wireless controller in the box standard, and the first to introduce a console-wide Achievements system, all of which became standard across the industry. Folding Xbox Live Arcade directly into the dashboard at launch, instead of requiring a special disc the way the original Xbox had, turned small digital-only games like Geometry Wars into a real category instead of a side experiment.

Launching a year early came with a cost: the "Red Ring of Death" hardware failure pattern hit a meaningful share of consoles (independent estimates range from roughly a quarter to over half, depending on the study), serious enough that Microsoft extended the warranty to three years in 2007 and spent over a billion dollars on repairs. (A persistent household myth claimed wrapping an affected console in towels could force a temporary fix; it wasn’t reliable and was a genuine fire risk.) Despite that, the 360 built one of the most active online communities of its era and sold more than 84 million units worldwide.

That reliability history is exactly why a 360 that still boots cleanly today is worth more than the number on the box alone: a tested-working unit carries real weight on this specific console in a way it doesn’t on systems with a cleaner track record, since buyers know what they’re trying to avoid.