The Xbox used to be a magical platform, yet ever since the Xbox One Reveal in 2013, the console has struggled to find it’s lost identity. Today we are looking back at the history of the Original Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and how Microsoft needs to change their priorities if they want to win the next console war with the Xbox Series X. I’ll also discuss how the Xbox has declined as a console.
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0:00 - Introduction
2:57 - Original Xbox Was Dope
5:26 - Xbox 360 Was Super Dope
7:01 - Xbox One: The Day of Reckoning
10:33 - What Happened?
15:10 - Competition & More
17:20 - User Experience, Lack of Focus
18:59 Emphasis on Technology
20:08 - Conclusion
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Master Chief bouta save the Xbox Series X. What were some of your favorite games on the different Xbox Consoles? Lemme know in the comments!
The Act Man definitely bf3. Even though it wasn’t an exclusive it was just smt I made some many memories with on xbox
Act man, what was that indie game at the beginning? With the squares and triangle's??? I loved it buts its long forgotten. Thanks in advance!!
Fusion frenzy forsure on the OG,
insidious as hell this is. master chief... PC master race... why not be the one? your console becomes your PC. all your hopes and dreams tied into one.
I only buy Xbox to play HALO cause I love the franchise but other than that...not much attracts me
"We've got a lot of icing, but not a lot of cake." Thats the most perfect analogy to this problem I've heard
Same
Fake news
Nugly at least it has backwards compatible flavored cake
I think we'll see some cake soon if not RIPBox Series X
Agreed
The 360 had something special: Valve games
So does the pc, but that’s where all valve games are on
Staringcorgi6 ok
Ok
@@staringcorgi6475 You getting butthurt because a Console that is outdated, and is running PC GAMES is not running them at the same rate? Imagine being that fucking dumb.
@@staringcorgi6475 consoles always been worse hard
...I think you all know why were back here....
So in a nutshell: Don Mattrick happened. Gotcha.
Yep, isn't he working for Sony now or something.
@@aaronlaughter6471 Oh F.... Ps 6 will be a disaster..
@@randomguy80 Xbox has seen an age of failure, it was only a matter of time before playstation had theirs.
@@rufousthefox9766 Well they kinda had with the start of the ps3
@@randomguy80 True.
The Rock looks like he was considering trying to get a role in the Matrix and decided "This new videogame gig looks cool, sure I'll make some cash while I wait."
Tiger Sympathiser He got interested in video games when he and his tag team partner, Mankind, were playing N64.
@@NhBleker Turned heel on Xbox
Anyone remember him in the game "spyhunter: nowhere to run" 😄
Glad I’m not the only one who was thinking that.
He’s in Fortnite. I hate Fortnite.
That feeling when over half of your friend list is watching Netflix
G P 8 I swear it’s kind of sad 😢
@@Duhluzr21 I'm just telling you the truth
Maybe you need New friends lol Mine are always playing
Guilty lol, I used to play all the time but now I work 3rd shift. I never get to play with them anymore :(
Vou Ti Deixar Um Oco seriously doe 😂
Don mattrick has always reminded me of the "aaaand it's gone" south park character. He looms like him, and I could totally see him going "game rentals.......and its gone" with that crooked ass smile.
Returning to this video 3 years later and oh boy does it sting.
Things have gotten even worse man, I've given up on Xbox at this point
@@MrMattogreen25man it just keeps getting worse
They keep shooting themselves in the feet
I could feel the rage from gamers around the world when he said, "If you want an offline Xbox use the 360."
@@lxldeviouslxl yeah see there are people who buy actual solid copies. Not everyone has the money to afford internet. You gaming racist.
@@lxldeviouslxl Well, the problem with buying physical copies these days is that you have to then connect to the online servers and download the 50GB Day One Update. Now, if we're talking 360 and PS3 games, I was buying them up until last year, when moving interstate blew a large hole in my bank account.
lxldeviouslxl Imagine paying 300 bucks for an Xbox, 180 for an extra controller and two games, and 30 bucks for internet every month only to have a notification pop up when launching a SINGLE PLAYER game saying “this game requires you to be online”. When I’m playing the Witcher, Dark Souls, Fallout, Skyrim, or Fallen Order the Xbox becomes an expensive paperweight every time the internet cuts out. I own a house in a beautiful beachside neighborhood so I can always go surf and kick back at the beach for a few hours until the internet kicks back on, but if I lived in the states in some boring town I’d be pretty pissed. And used physical copies of games run like 10 bucks at the GameStop here, so why the fuck would I pay $60 for the same thing? No offense dude but you come across like a spoiled teen who got his Xbox for Christmas a couple years ago and is completely out of touch with what a struggle life is when you don’t have much money. I’m here struggling to make ends meet with a car payment, insurance, food (which is really expensive here in Hawaii), and random shit that needs replacing like the water pump to my house that went out a couple months ago and cost me about $300 to replace, which I had to look up KZhead tutorials on how to replace it myself because there is no way I could afford to pay a plumber. I had no running water in my house for that entire time. My Toyota also needs a new strut on the passenger side, so I’m looking at another $200 just for that. I also like to take my girl out on a movie date once or twice a month, that’s expensive as fuck. So yeah I’m gonna find every way I can to get games as cheap as I possibly can. People like you that literally have shit handed to them and act like life is such a breeze with dumb comments like “who even games offline in 2020” or “ what kind of moron buys physical copies anymore” are completely out of touch with the struggle of living paycheck to paycheck with zero financial help can honestly kiss my ass. I’m blessed enough to have had my dad sign his house over to me before he passed away, I don’t think I could make it otherwise when the average cost of rent out here is $1200 dollars a month. And now I have my little brother moved in with me because his parents dropped the ball and couldn’t even get him to finish high school and weren’t feeding him everyday and basically neglected him so I have TWO mouths to feed, and I already eat allot since I have a high metabolism and have to struggle to keep muscle on so I can paddle outrigger canoes with Hui Wa’a o Waiākea, the canoe club here in Hilo. The struggle is real out here “brah”.
Its stupid from a gaming sense but even more stupid from a business sense too. Don't buy our new product go buy our older cheaper product instead
I was one of those!
I haven't watched this yet but is the answer: -Don Mattrick -Focusing on media? instead of games? -Mandatory Kinnect 2.0 & wasted 1st party studio talent instead of Good Console 3.0
Yeah that's all part of the problem
I would add lacking focus on 3rd party support in comparison to Sony (COD, Destiny, SW:BF, RDR2 etc.) to the list. Microsoft has become a lot less aggressive with 3rd party this generation, when during the 360’s run they practically controlled and had dibs on everything.
Xbox bringing it next gen tho, I doubt they pissed all that money away on studios to do nothing with them
Well for me was liberating all games on Windows 10. Why do I need an Xbox One when my PC that had a higher initial cost does everything much better? Free online, cheaper games, Xbox games, Gamepass, all on PC. Another reason is that while Sony always had ALL third party (and secondy party) releases. Early on the Xbox One was (and is still missing many of these) Yakuza, Nioh, Street Fighter 5, Nier Automata, God Eater, Detroit Become Human, Ni Nu Kuni 2, etc. I mean Japanese developers had more respect for the 360 back then, it's like Microsoft cut the bridges with all of them this generation. Phil had to beg to get Yakuza and Kingdom Hearts on the Xbox One. Why would I want such a messy platform like this? It can't guarantee me access to all third party games and releases all they have - games and services - on the PC.
@@Manic_PanicWhat GPU you using, is it better? Most people have a shit gaming pc.
The fact that this video is still relevant to this day is disappointing
They just blatantly gave up.
@@ASx2608Xbox is doing pretty good now! I’m pretty happy with how it’s been going especially with the amazing game pass titles
What ruined Xbox: Don Matrick What saved Xbox: Phil Spencer
Don mattrick is the reason 360 was as great as it was .
@@KingShaqxYahudah the red ring of death disagrees
@@KingShaqxYahudah 🤣 he was also the reason the Xbox One almost became its younger crack head brother that wasn’t worth a damn to society at all and always in and out of prison 🤣
@@KingShaqxYahudah no
@@KingShaqxYahudah Don Matrick joined Microsoft Game Studios in 2008, exactly when the console started to face technical issues aswell when PS3 was catching up in sales.
Phil Harrison, involved in: - Sony’s E3 2006 - The Xbox One Reveal - Google Stadia guy’s a bad luck magnet
@Bitchute KZhead bro what?
@Bitchute KZhead Its been confirmed that Spencer actually took over and could do shit in late 2016 which obviously was late as fuck and most if not all AAA projects in MS's 1st party studios were in deep development by that time. Hes the one who managed to convince MS current CEO to even continue making Xbox consoles and improve brand as a whole including investing in it like those studio acquisitions lmao. We have to wait until next-gen to see what decision making this guy actually has and actual proper results of those decisions - they may be good or bad but as someone who doesnt really give a shit about these retarded console wars I think bigger and better competition will make things better for us consumers so I hope that Spencer will do shit properly.
That fuck reminds me of the coked up sleazebag that Hans blasts in the head in Die Hard.
@Chris Goody What? If anything Sony is releasing games you literally described: GoW - Third Person "Mature cinematic experience" Last of Us 2 - Same Death Stranding - Same Horizon Zero Dawn - Same Uncharted 4 - Same Days Gone - Same Most of those are great games yes but literally every single game is third person "cinematic experience" lmao meanwhile MS's portfolio while lower quality its definetly more varied in genres thats a fact.I agree with you like..wheres AAA arcade racer? Or Platformer? Anything thats not third person "cinematic experience"?
@@doooodeh I see your point but that genre is so broad it doesn't mean games are similar
0:10 you forgot the soulja boy console
What sojaboy console it never exsited Note. Im being a smart ass i now it was an actual thing im not that retarded
Specializes in YOU!
@501st Legion i was being a smart ass
Deadass lmao
Welp that’s that
This video needs a sequel now
I second that. We need more Xbox analysis from the Act Man.
This video has pretty much aged like wine. While it’s still a rumor, it’s pretty much shows how far the Xbox has fallen from Grace with them considering putting Starfield on the PlayStation
im more excited for Hi-fi rush lol
@@dx181818 as a PS user, I hope we get master chief collection, Hellblade and banjo kazooie. Everything else they can keep 🤣 fck starfield and redfail
Also kinda sad considering that Xbox Series S/X and Playstation 5 always claim that their games are "exclusive" only on their platform only to find out that those same exact "exclusive" games are on PC now don't get me wrong I hate exclusive games on any platform especially Xbox and Playstation because they can actually be good games that I feel anyone should be able to enjoy but for Playstation and Xbox to advertise that their games are only exclusive on their platforms only to then port those exclusive games over to PC is quite frankly just making their platforms pointless. Because why buy their consoles when you could just buy their exclusive games on PC and play it on that platform then compared to buying the exclusive games on their platform and playing those games on their platform?
Oh god it became a essay
"While Sony and Nintedo kept turning up the heat with ambitious games like Mario Odyssey, Uncharted 4, God of War, Breath of the Wild, the Xbox One has coasted by by being the system you get because your friends have Xbox."
I agree with this message. I just bought mine bc my cousin has one, now he is going to ps5 and i nintendo switch
Lol you got abandoned
@@juanrocky8147 I did a similar thing. I've been with the Xbox from the start but was thinking about the PS4. But since my friends were getting the Xbox One, I got that instead.
yes
『Mango Tango』nice Dunkey quote
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it." - Warren Buffett
JADE3 Kevin Spacey? 😂
343 minutes *
It takes takes take to takes take to takes the take to take the takes -Sun tzu
Funny, how Sony learned this the hard way with the PS3 after the success of the PS2.
cough cough call of duty
The fact that Xbox is willing to spend BILLIONS of dollars for Activision but then they cancel games, shut down studios and lay off workers PISSES me off. How about spending money on your own studios to FINISH GOOD GAMES. Not hard Phil!
I like the backwards compatibility ,it’s really nice just being able to play older games on newer consoles or if u just don’t have access to older console
Maybe it’s just me but I never really liked backwards compatibility. I much prefer playing Xbox 360 games on the 360 than on my Series X. Maybe it’s just that extra feel of nostalgia, opening up that old box in my closet and dusting off my childhood. No form of emulation can ever replace that
@@homiej8163yeah it’s just nostalgia lol
@@Yeedo420Partially but original hardware can be better in some scenarios. Plugging the OG XBOX, or the PS3 in and navigating a well made UI unlike these bloated modern interfaces. Nothing beats that.
xbox has fake backwards compatibility
@@SuperM789 It is not fake. They use an *emulator* for older games which is real backwards compatibility.
Man I hope the rock and Dwayne Johnson meet some day
"one of my biggest regrets in life, is that i will never be able to so me in concert" --kanye west
You're clearly just copying a popular comment from some other place and using that for likes. It's utterly pointless. Do you gain happiness from gaining likes for things you didn't create? If so, the praise you give yourself is worthless. Learn to gain appreciation for yourself by creating something original and you yourself liking it. You don't need to copy someone else's creation to gain appreciation from others. You aren't getting likes, your comment is. Know that.
Super Boa Do you enjoy making comments like this? If so, then the praise you give yourself is worthless. It’s a joke, don’t take it so seriously.
Super Boa it was a joke i know there is another comment some place but i wanted to make my comment
Daniel Johnson bruh thats a better idea
“The PS4 had taken leadership.” Me- Gets an ad for PS4
😏👍
👌😑👉
You really got a ps4 ad in 2020
@@poggersman3346 well they gonna do their best to hit 200 mil sales before ps5 they already got 100 mil so why stop there
Ps4 exclusives don't need to be on pc😁😁😁
This aged well.
The 360 was the peak of Xbox and Microsoft. Now they ain't shit.
Sony employee of the month: Don mattrick
No no.....more like Sony employee of the decade
Sony employee of the year x 6 = Phil Spencer.
@@phil_7544 What?
Follower 8 Phil Spencer is better
Lmaa best comment 😂😂
Remember when PS and Nintendo didn't have paid online subscriptions? Good times, good times
Cody Coyote sure is
Colemine 44 that’s for every console now unfortunately
Xbox proved it was easy money to make
Because games were cheap back then....
@@LongNguyen-lx8if if the online fee is because games cost too much to make then maybe the game devs should get the money instead of the console maker? Seems weird that games and online are only too expensive for sony, ms and nintendo, every other company gets by fine without charging.
Xbox basically went through a crazy character anime arc, starting out as the underdog and being a serious competitor, and then faltering basically almost killing it. Then coming back stronger than ever and putting it back in the race
You could say the same with PlayStation
@@GodzzHustla they were doing good with the PlayStation 4 for a while, by the last couple years they started getting really greedy and it continued into the PlayStation 5, arguably getting worse. I was going to get a pas4 when I got back into console gaming, but it is was a lot cheaper to just go to Xbox.
not stronger than ever.
@@gregorymirabella1423 yes, stronger than ever.
I miss the 2000s era of gaming so much
I will never forive Don Mattrick. I have a strong feeling that he was the one person that derailed the XBOX.
His vision tarnished Xbox in the gaming community
@@jeagerist4072 peobably so
Amin Nobari idk I think he’s a part but how much control can one man have at microsoft not named bill gates I figure it’s a board of idiots who all collectively made that decision and he was the fall guy
You should also blame Terry Myerson. He was a part of Microsoft and wanted to see the Xbox fail.
Bobby Jimboy lol I didn’t even notice
I specifically remember that Sony commercial back in 2013 when they presented the title "How to trade your ps4 game", and then they literally show the guy handing a physical game to the other guy in one second and everybody just went wild after that. We all knew it was done. Sony demolished Xbox that easy.
Fun fact: the two employees that were in the commercial are not in Sony anymore. They were fired :/
@@jaitorwutmemes6993 Where'd you read that?
Feliz Pena dude what happened to them and y?
Feliz Pena - Not exactly. Shuhei Yoshida is still with Sony, he just isn’t the president of the worldwide studios anymore. He’s been replaced by Herman Hulst, the former lead of Guerilla Games. The other guy, Adam Boyes, wasn’t fried either, he quit to go back into video game development. That “fun fact” was more like boring fake news haha. Just bustin’ your balls, but yeah.
I would definitely not say demolished
This vid has aged very well
It’s really funny how Xbox portrayed Jedi fallen order as an exclusive when it’s on PC and PlayStation 💀
Xbox does one thing perfectly in my opinion which is backwards compatibility
I think that’s going to really hurt Sony next GEN.
lawnmowerdude the ps5 and ps4 are gonna be backwards compatible, but I wish I could play ps2/3 games on my ps4
@@lawnmowerdude doubt it, PS3 and PS4 didn`t had it and they managed just fine, as well the majority of Nintendo consoles. And its questionable if this was a major factor on the PS2 success. People buy new consoles to play new games, not old ones. Sure it`s cool but is not a deal breaker for the majority of people. Library transferring from the previous generation helps transition on the new one at the beginning because the flux of new games is low, but is not a major sales driving force (and PS5 will have with PS4 at least). And Sony should expand their backwards compatibility in the future, but it probably is tied too their PSNow strategy, so their arent talking about it yet.
You know I always thought about this thing being so important but I'm not so sure. Most of my friends I wouldn't call them casual gamers cause they play Fifa religiously and maybe have the console turned on more than me a serious gamer . They just want to buy Fifa, Call of Duty just the latest version of it and play it to death. It is like those people that said PC gaming will take over, nope people don't even bother with laptops anymore you can get away with just having an ipad I can't believe people will make the effort of building PCs or when Sony came up with remote play on their phones. Majority of the people won't want to fiddle around. But I agree to us gamers this might be an important issue.
Charley Robinson its the only reason is stuck whit xbox cause i like to play the old cods and games and my friends also causr i enjoy it more
"The xbox is the console you get because your friend have it." -Dunkey
One rule of dunkey- never take anything he says seriously
Yep
@@titanium_rocket1505 salty over death stranding?
@soy squid what? No. I’ve never even played that game. It’s just that he’s the channel you go to when you want something silly, not serious
@SMD sth91 stop copy and pasting this
Oh my freaking god at 10:30 when he said “PS4 had claimed lordship over the console market” I got an ad for the PS4. Literally as soon as he finished his sentence.
"the 360 was better than ps3 in every way" that was only true in the days of halo 3s launch and a few years before. After that the 360 was left with a competitor that was more powerful, recieved price drops, got demon's souls along with several other 7th gen greats as exclusives, and a console that ultimately outsold it.
Agreed xbox dominated at the start with their best exclusives like Halo 3 and Gears of war then they slept throughout. Then sony cameback with heavy hitting exclusives like MGS4, uncharted 2 and 3, infamous, God of war 3, demon's souls and to end it with an absolute bang, The last of us.
Act really making me miss the Glory days of gaming, when I was not in school yet and I could just play Halo 3 all day with my cousins.....
@David Loisel Ye I guess I should have been more specific, like School breaks and Summer
RC32 bro i would just play halo 3 all the time with my cousins all day to
@David Loisel Same man, I didn't have as much responsibilities then, and you didn't need to worry as much lol. Still living a good life of course nonetheless
@@LucasCarter2 I never implied or said Halo 3 was the definitive way of the Glory Days. It's an example of those Glory Days, which I very much enjoyed back then.
@@FilthyCasual27344 It was very fun times for all of us!
Reasons why I got an xbox (specifically 360): 1. Halo 2. Most of my friends were on xbox at the time
bro the 360 was good, no shame in a 360. The xbone just dropped the ball IMO
@@Luca-bv5ic Im in the minority cause I couldn't stand the 360. I got the early version so I needed to buy an external hard drive for it. And it's got no disk protector so if you move it with a game in it the games breaks. And then I got the red ring of death. At that point I just bought the PS3 and never looked back
@@josephclark1139 fair enough. To be fair, I never had one, but my friend did and we occasionally still play halo split screen on it lol. I think he got the slim or whatever the updated version was so I'm not familiar with some of the hardware issues. But also in reference to this video, the act man is roasting the xbone for not having games, and that wasn't really a problem with the 360.
@@Luca-bv5ic the PS4 dropped the ball you got them mixed up
@@josephclark1139 you probably were raging and kept breaking ur Xbox and ur mom got the PS3 and gave you sponge Bob the game and told you to play it cause you rages too much
That xbox one reveal really put a huge dent on the xbox console. They fucked up so hard it’s crazy.
I really think Sega had a HUGE hand in giving the original Xbox a ton of unique games especially Sega of that Era. A lot of those cool Japanese games like Jet Set Radio Future Perfect were originally planned Dreamcast games and when the dreamcast flopped. Sega originally wanted the Xbox to be a spiritual successor to the dreamcast and offered backwards compatability with Dreamcast games. But even with the backing of Sega it was hard for Xbox to push into the Japanese Market.
*Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for THE ACT MAN to do a "Why Fallout New Vegas Was So Awesome"*
When patience exists
NCR Trooper fo3 was better
@@FishFind3000 I'm going to have to respectfully disagree
@@FishFind3000 No. God no. Jesus.
Yes keep going. Every video. That fact that he still hearts these here and there is def a good sign.
I’m not gonna lie, the Xbox one failed because of 2 things: 1: the reveal shot out it’s own kneecaps. 2:Halo become mediocre and middling.
Kevythekevlar I can’t disagree with this, but hopefully halo infinite will resurrect the Xbox 😭
Agreed, I feel like Halo sort‘ve became another CoD but instead it used to be the flagship of Xbox, which is a shame
I agree bro
Don't forget about my boy Gears of War.
Halo 5 multiplayer is probably the best so far, alongside Reach. Reach had a good campaign tho.
I really do feel like we're in for a big Xbox comeback this gen. The Series X and Game Pass have been crushing it in every regard. It also seems like Xbox is more than just a console at this point thanks to XCloud/GamePass.
Yes sir!!! Xbox is doing great.
Halo infinite is poppin
Ya hopefully but the problem is that the play station fanboys will over shadow it with the ps5
@@Fuzzhead392that's not exactly new.
Microsoft literally owns 2 of the 3 big AAA fps games. This aged well
Xbox shot itself on the leg and never fully recovered lol
18:25 It's not a "old school" mindset. Its Companys trying to make us forget 4 Player Splitscreen existed
why wouldn't you want to play with your friends when they come over. I remember as a kid be so excited to try a new game with my friends and we'd throw our own little parties just to hangout and play. We need a pc company that can make another console that can create a nostalgia of it's existence, create memories with friends and families. As gamers we should just start our own projects and stop supporting these lazy companies.
Jason Fouladi yeah I miss split screen games most games now are either only online multiplayer or two player splitscreen even tho a lobby allows like 20 people
It amazes me that now that we have larger screens most games don't have split screen.
@David Moore MOH:EA
@@AIt-Girl Me too man
Xbox specializes in everyone's dad owning microsoft
Good old xbox 360 days
Bill gates has many children
Breaking Bad
Lol my friend says his dad works there. He hates PlayStation but has no good reasons why
The Xbox 360 will go down as Microsoft’s most successful console since they don’t really care about consoles anymore only game pass
it makes me so sad that to this day 2023, Xbox, my favorite console ever, is still a fucking joke
They've bought a bunch of studios hopefully in the next year or so they'll come out swinging with cool exclusives. Until then I'm sticking with my ps5 though.
I really hope Xbox doesn’t fail. We need good competition preferably between PlayStation and Xbox. With competition we all win. It’s a real shame the Xbox Series don’t sell more than they do. They are solid consoles.
To be frank, Xbox has the worst outcome. The PS5 scalping craze is a few years behind at this point and instead of doing their own version of the Kinect, they made sure their ecosystem is comprised of a VR headset. Oh and unlike the PS4, it is truly backward compatible. Big one. Meanwhile, Nintendo realized their somewhat underpowered consoles would never compete with the Playstation and Xbox. So they designed it to also be handheld, which really puts it on a class of its own. As much as I still think Quake will always be best played on PC, I gotta say the Switch port of Quake is pretty competent. So what Xbox has left?
@@limpetarch98kStarfield
@@blast2686Midfield
''With shitty trends Microsoft keep brining to video games we all win''
"We've got a lot of icing, but not a lot of cake" sounds like something you'd say to a girl who uses a lot of make up.
With no ass
@@pxrxy and no boobies
But a lot of attitude
@@ethanor And style
And she has No job, even before covid19 but is STILL entitled
Act man, I think you're forgetting that around half way through the 7th gen, Microsoft started focusing more on kinect and that's when Sony got serious about games and started to catch up and eventually overtake them
Yeah and vr was a big selling point
see it the same way
Back in the 7th gen, owning all 3 consoles was worth it
@@davidperry4013 heck yeah man. Dad had the PlayStation, mom with the Xbox
Sony has always been about games and that's xbox fault for focusing on kinect
Xbox Series X guns are mostly shooting blanks so far. MS is creating a new kind of fan however, the GamePass fan. There's no focus on IPs, or great games to look forward to. Despite the offerings to come, the focus will be about these being on GamePass and being a great value to the service. MS has fans rooting for the company's ledger rather than the games. That's the new Xbox identity.
It's actually impressive how well this video aged, Xbox feels like it's getting addicted to failure
Not gonna lie, the PS4 was doing so much and busting out so many AAA games this generation, that I honestly forgot the Xbox was a console for a really long time.
Ya Ik dude
I’m not trying to suck Xboxs pp but I like Xbox for the controller and forza and I like he format more then ps4 and I think the br games are better then ps4
@@compangles9918 yeah i can agree, i personally never liked the shape of the controller. the new ps5 controller looks cool and "comfy" imo and i also wasnt really a fan of the ps4 format.
@@compangles9918 hopefully the ps5 makes a good impression
Chip Ahoy Durability on the xbox controller is awful though. I've had so many controllers with faulty audio jacks for absolutely no reason. It happened last night in fact, I booted the piece of shit up to play some Sea of Thieves and then found my mic wasn't working but I could hear audio, then switched out the controller and discovered it wasn't the mic that was the issue but the controller. Probably the 4th controller I've had come with a broken audio jack.
"The xbox was MORE than just halo" cant say the same now
Yeetorio is shit
@Yeetorio gears died once the coalition got it. The games have zero heart and are fucking filled with microtransactions. The fact that they have microtransactions in one iof xboxes few ok exculives is disgusting. They burned so many fans
@Yeetorio 💩👌
Not really
@iSolvano HDR No, because they were unintrusive and you could be perfectly fine without then
The PS3 caught up to and surpassed 360 sales
Xbox: If you don’t have internet, buy a 360 Or people could just buy a PS4 instead XD
I rememeber when the 360 was setup in stores with a demo of call of duty 2.
Alex Trainor stop you making me cry
I remember that. the Graphics looked insane.
omg, I was so hype with the graphics
And the king kong game.
@@jonathanvazquez7243 yesss where you would rip the t-rex's jaw off!
Imagine having a hamburger company and focusing on improving everything in the restaurant except your hamburgers. Yeah, that's Xbox.
"Man, the fries and shakes at that burger joint are so good." "What about their burgers?" "Their burgers suck."
Jhony Rockets be like
@@arturoflores8033 😬. Really? Well, good to know. Thanks
To be fair, the largest hamburger company(McDonald's) is entirely based on your premise... So... Thanks for proving their point. Also exclusives are anti gamer. Simple as that. Xbox is looking to be by the gamer, for the gamer, that's how they are saving their brand going forward. Cross platform play, etc.
@@mikecrapse5285 well to be fair, Xbox hasn't had nearly as many good exclusives as Sony has had in recent years. So cross platforming is also in THEIR OWN best interest.
The red ring of death made me switch to the PS3 and have been PlayStation since with absolutely no regrets
One thing is they need to get rid of the enforcement team and stop ban players for playing games I got banned twice for playing xbox 360 games in offline and signing in later to the internet to update achievements over the cloud
Right on Fuck the Xbox Enforcement Team
Sunset overdrive is one of the most underrated xbox one games
Ben Grogan i think its probably the best xbox exclusive
@ooskiet nobody said it was better than spiderman because its an opinion. The point is that its a really underrated game and hasn't really gotten the attention it deserved.
@@beng9360 Because it released on the wrong platform. Had it been a PS4 exclusive it would've been appreciated more.
@@lookinaturmom well I'm glad it was on xbox because its one of my favourite games I have there
@Extreme OOF I'd say sunset overdrive and rare replay are the best we have
It just angers my soul to know that xbox has literally all of rare but seems to do close to nothing with it at least right
Ironically, you could argue Nintendo has done more with rare this generation considering Banjo is in smash, and microsoft basically done nothing
Luke Detering Sea of Thieves. You really can’t argue.
Rare's doing it's own thing now with new IPs like Everwild and they don't have MS breathing down their necks anymore like the horrid Nuts n Bolts days. They along with nearly every acquired studio is semi-independent and MS doesn't want to meddle in too much anymore. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on the studio and what you think. (I do agree with you tho that it's upsetting we haven't had a new banjo, Conker, or KI in years)
Rare sucks, move on.
Sea of Thieves was good and Also BattleToa-oh wait.
We need a remaster of this video
Man this video continues to age well
"How one misguided goal can undo all the goodwill" Queue the Runescape music.
Makes me want to finish getting my 99 fishing cape.
As a long time Pre-EOC and now EOC player i will say that the start of EOC was perhaps the biggest miss step in gaming history considering how big Runescape was at the time. I will say though that nowadays, for the last 6 years that i have been playing it, they actually made it work. It may not look at the same target audience anymore, but that is not realistic. Back then we were all 8-14 years old and those who still play are now in their 20's or older. I enjoy it and i enjoy osrs but i think RS3 gets too much hate for the game that it currently is which in mu opinion, even with its flaws is amazing. The combat is actually pretty good once you understand how it works which is a much more simplified version of what it was at the EOC release if you want it to be (the pre eoc combat is also still available as it was re-released).
The majority of music in the video is Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.
OH GOD THANKS FOR POINTING THE GAME! I've been dying to play it again for nostalgia and can't remember the title of that game. Played hours with my younger brother on it. Don't you just miss the good old days?
@@MrMathsimon Play the Oldschool version for the true nostalgic experience
The Act man More like The fact man.
You need to act to bring a fact.
Fact man? More like pizza butt
*Starts eating a lot of junk food* "Hi, I'm the Fat Man"
@@cobo7769 👏 You got the whole squad laughing😐
This aged like a fine wine 🍷
I owned a Xbox 360 and ps3 back in the day and they were both great but one thing I liked about ps3 more than Xbox is that you didn’t have to pay for online games like you did with Xbox live
I feel proud to own a 360. And it still hasn't suffered a red ring of death
Me too
I sadly wasn't so lucky with mine
My console survived my controller didn’t
same, i personally have the revision after the original
@@redtoad6559 R.I.P
The Xbox decline started in the later end of the 360 era. The Kinect era.
No way mate
@@ellisevans8505 way mate
Nah, Kinect was gimmicky but alright, it was the Xbox one that put the funny nail in the coffin
@@ellisevans8505 yes if it didn't xbox 360 Will outsold ps3
@Keefy Xbox 360 was more powerful even though it was released much earlier
Anyone here after Bethesda AND Activision is now owned by Xbox?
that kreia quote gave me goosebumps. truly one of the greatest games of all time.
Halo Infinite might be its only savior. Let's all pray that it'll be good.
I don't pray I play
That'll definitely kick things off the right way. They gotta come back swinging with some dope ass exclusives for the launch of the Xbox Series X
@@TheActManNo, exclusives need to stop
Christopher Simon as someone who doesn’t like 343 (not hate) have faith in Infinite. They at least brought back the iconic Halo look and made it looks better than ever!
One game can’t carry a console anymore. Xbox one showed you that.
Original xbox was very underrated. Best lineup compared to 360 and the one in my opinion. Problem was , it had to compete with the monster ps2.
I just bought a used Xbox original months ago. Even though I like the PS2 more, in all fairness the OG Xbox is a great console.
Its like a beefed PS2
I loved the first Xbox and I never even owned it. I used to play it at my cousin's house a lot.
I owned both and i loved my 3d platformers but idk man playing halo ce on the og xbox was surreal
I think the PS2 was so popular because it was a DVD player that could play games. It costed as much as a DVD player did in 2000. With the ridiculous amount of people buying the PS2, Sony had the budget and insurance of fan loyalty to go full force on exclusives.
Xbox fans back in the days : Gears ❤Halo ❤Oblivion, Bioshock, Mass effect, 🎉Jet set Radio, Fable, Project Gotham racing, Crimson skies, Splinter cell 🎉❤❤❤ Xbox fans now : “Hmm.. game pass is a great proposition you know, and you can play old games you’ve already played on it”. It’s really great.
Yo, make a "Rise of Xbox Video"
Xbox lost its identity when it tried to take over the whole living room. Great idea to gain more customers but hardcore gamers wanted the gaming device they fell in love with. The Xbox and Xbox 360 were revolutionary with online gaming . Having a Xbox 360 was like having a iPhone today. Hopefully the Xbox series x brings it back to its glory days.
Well said, my guy.
Lonk I mean as in very popular and wanted. Almost every KZheadr gamed on Xbox 360 during its time. Not taking anything away from android because they make great devices as well.
All start or ends at E3 2020
GOKU BLACK MEXICANO I agree
I think it was a good idea, just executed wrong, if they would have made it as a nice little side thing, cool, but they made their whole presentation on that part. I think almost everyone would agree it's nice to be able to have more capability in that box, but it seemed to me like they tried to make that the main selling point
The release of the Xbox One was one of the defining moments of gaming's downfall. The 7th generation was already an age full of failed experimentation, namely motion control, digital stores ruining third party support, and creators/franchises going on a downward spiral, but the real destruction of this medium would show itself in its full glory during the 8th generation. The Wii-U failed, the Xbox One became a joke, and the PS4 was nothing more than a stale recreation of the PS3 but with slightly better graphics. In just 2 generations, we went from the greatest age of gaming to the worst, and we still haven't recovered.
The original Xbox is the reason why gaming sucked since 7th gen.
to this day, im still confused as to how soooooooo many higher ups at microsofts xbox division (supervisors, managers, directors, vp's, and ceo's) legitimately approved of the initial ideas of xbox one.
You ever think the marketing team say to each other, “hey do you think anyone would ever abbreviate the Xbox one to xbone, undermining its cool factor”?
Rainyfriday I think that being a piece of shit with no exclusives undermined Xbox One’s cool factor.
I hope Sony and Microsoft bring their A Game this next generation. It’s always cool seeing them try to one up each other
Not gonna change my stance though. Never had any interest in any interest of the XBox and XBox 360 exclusives, and some it's excusives weren't real exclusives as quite a few were released on PC first, and I always had a pc with gaming capabilities. Moreover 360 didn't trully dominate it's generation, no. Xbox 360s won the first 2 years, because it was realeased much before the other 2 consoles, but as soon as Wii was released and PS3 became cheaper(main reason if not the only reason why it was losing to 360), both quickly overturned the ranking in the later years of the generation, with Nintendo easily taking the lead and PS3 above 360 by a bit. People love to dismiss PS3 japanese exclusive games(mostly JRPGS), but while they are niche games they have a solid, loyal fanbase. Moreover if you wanted a fighting game you went to Sony consoles.
It's like mom and day fighting over who gets to buy you the best car after the divorce
@@bloody4558 lol why be so close minded? Competition helps us, the consumer. If Xbox just gave up one day sony would become lazy and have no reason to innovate and vise versa
Nintendo just sitting back chilling letting Microsoft and Sony fans go at it. Not looking to be #1 but also make the best product for core fans. Which you should do
Microsoft already gave up lol. They are more focused on "streaming" than actual games
I think you forgot to mention the Red Ring of Death and how many 360’s it bricked. With the original white model, it wasn’t a matter of if your console would die, but when. It had a 54% fail rate. To be honest, that alone probably gave Sony a boost PS3 sales that eventually led to them outselling the 360.
The 360 look (original) and the blade ui was so good though. I did end up on PS4 because f that launch but I do miss the 360.
This video hasn't aged well of today
Xbox still has no games. KEKW In comparison to ps4 and 5 at least.
@@RustCohle072 I was saying this cuz they bought Activision
Microsoft: eats like 12 studios and 24 franchises Also microsoft: sorry game machine broke, have halo 5
usernames in 2007: wheresmycar usernames in 2020: BigBootyBandit_42069
Nah, it would be BigBootyBandit_123456789
Hey, if he gets laid even one time because of his username, worth it.
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This was probably why he never got that invite.
The Runescape lumbridge theme in the end of the video hit me with such a wave of nostalgia and past memory/experiences, I had to pause, and I'm not even sure I can keep watching. Lol.
0:52 Stadia: "I'm not quite dead yet!" "I'm getting better!" "No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment!" Cheeky reference, bro. Edit: MY GOD, ACT MAN HEARTED MY COMMENT! YAY! 😁 Alsø Wìk: Hè ùňheaŕted mý commèňť 😔
Monty python and the holy spirit
I wonder what ganon's up to
Xbox one: Right I'll do you for that! PS4: Your exclusives gone! Xbox one: I'm invincible! PS4: You're a loony
Bubba PHAT I feel happpppyyyy. I feel happpy.. OOOF
@@camron.w1841 Nintendo: have we met?
I remember my childhood being filled with joy and entertainment just by the Original Xbox. I never had internet at home, and I didn't have the DVD kit to play DVD's on the Xbox. All I had was the console, many games, and the controller in my hand to take me to an adventure I was excited. The Spider-Man Movie The Game was the first game I remember playing, and it was amazing just swinging through the city, and playing the story of the movie (for half the game). But when it came to Halo 2, it was the best game I ever played when I was young. After my Xbox died, I got a PS3 for my birthday and I was happy to have it. Now, I have a PS4. I love both these consoles, but I always wanted a 360 and later the Xbox One. Sadly, most of my friends just can't stand Xbox players, systems, or anything related to Xbox. I grew up playing Xbox, but later Playstation. But I'll never forget what made me get into games in the first place, and where I came from. This is why no matter what, I'll never forget that the Xbox was a system that brought me and millions joy in our lives. And I believe Microsoft can do it again. Not just to those who grew up or enjoyed any of the Xbox Systems, but also to new comers who are willing to try Microsoft's systems. That's what I would like and that's what I hope Series X is capable of doing.
@Naquin Green I'm pretty worried about the PS5 and the Xbox Series X, but I'm confident they'll get things right and will both be good consoles. I'm sorta worried about the power, but I prefer them focusing what can they do when said power and see if they can expand it, or lessen it. You don't need the most powerful console to have a great experience. Just you, your controller, and the fun, the challenge, the plot, the characters, the adventure, and the immersion of the game. That's what I hope they focus. If they do that, then I hope everyone can be happy with the console (Or PC) of their choosing. I support all platforms
ive had a very similar childhood with you. first console was a original xbox and came with a ton of games, played a alot of halo ce, and play alot more of halo 2 with spiderman 2 in there. my mom gave my xbox away and a little while later my relative gave me his ps3. my main game on that was little big planet, and boy the memories ive had. i always wanted a xbox 360 to play halo 3, but got a ps4 for christmas. still have the ps3 to this day but its dusty and needs a new controller.
My friends were the opposite lol We all grew up with xbox and most of them mocked playstation for being "that console owned by asians" lmao
@@user-ff4pi9dc3g Very similar childhood indeed. That was exactly what happened to me. My first PS3 game (that I owned and played) was LittleBigPlanet. Boy, the good old days.
Me to
Ahhh, back when every fps was calling themselves the "halo killer" only to fall short. Now, the only halo killer is 343 themselves
I remember watching that press conference live all those years ago. As soon as they said DRM the money I was saving for an Xbox went towards a PS4 friends list be damned. If I wanted a DRM experience I would just play on PC.
And not even that buying from GOG
I was in the military when halo first came out. It was the game everyone played in the military where we could all link up and have 30 of us playing against each other in the barracks. It’s probably one of my most fond memories of Xbox where just one part of the barracks you could see cable coming out of everyone’s room so they could play halo.
Such heros wow 👌
One of these days we'll get a , "Why Bioshock 1 is a Masterpiece"
He should make "Why Dead Space 2 is so awesome."
Playing it right now, I can confirm. Bioshock 1 is in fact a masterpiece.
Maybe in the next few months!
Would you kindly?
Wish granted.
I'm sorry Act Man, but after today, I don't think this video is gonna age well
What happened?
@@Ry-xp1gu activision
@@natemartinez2189 that legit tells me nothing lol
@@Ry-xp1gu Activision is now an Xbox game studio (I guess since they bought it)
Hasn’t gotten better
The fact that they named their third console the Xbox One should have been the first clue that it was going to suck.
Who ever names these consoles should be fired.
Should've went with xbox 720
Remember when that moron at E3 referred to the Xbox one as the modern water cooler? The irony...
Xbox 420
tbh Xbox "Series" X/S is an even worse name. They should've called it the Xbox Infinite or something
So I just recently got back to the 360 and I can't even put in to words how much I miss the old days of xbox. Remember when you would get a full complete games without constant wait for an update?
Zero all the best call of duty games existed before the xbox 1 and ps4 and didnt need these unbelievably long unnecessary updates
@@EulogizingSleep imo my favorite COD game COD 3 and MW3. Both brung great memories when I played them again.
I don't have these issues at all, like these are personal problems y'all have with this console, I've got both a ps4 and a xbox one and I grew up playing them and still prefer xbox, but both of them have amazing exclusives that I just love.
@Acrobatic_ Jesus my point is that the system has improved and that I don't wait for updates and if I do because my internet download speed is good and auto updates are on and I have 2tb plus 500gb base harddrive i don't wait for updates, i just turn it on and play
@@noire213 it's not so much as the console itself, but what it offered. When playing PS4 I just see cash grab unfinished games. Yes the games are good, but they never gave that feeling I got when games came out around the 360 and ps4 era.
PlayStation: the personal console Nintendo: me and my friends Xbox: me and the bois
The fact that this applies to this day is shocking. Microsoft never prioritize the console, its always gamepass and gamepass.