Good riddance: Here are the things we won’t miss about the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3

This is part of our ongoing series about games and trends of one of the most longest-lived eras in gaming’s history — the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 generation.

Sometimes, game consoles are memorable for all the wrong reasons. Take the Dreamcast: At this point, people probably remember it more for being publisher Sega’s last console rather than for its games. While the current generation didn’t have anything nearly that bad — it introduced some fantastic innovations to video games, after all — the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 did have some missteps along the way.