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Was this OG a 2 Part video? Nice that sponsors give you the power to give us double the output. Hope you don't burn out - with the sad topics you report on.
Hey man, been a subscriber since you covered the naked meta in Dark and Darker. Not sure if you remember me, but I went hard on you in the comments and then apologized later in chat on one of your streams cus you were doing great journalism and I just had to give you props for that. Anyways, I know it’s not a popping game anymore but you should cover DaD again cus you might find there’s a good story in there about why it failed to keep up the player count; even though it’s back on steam now for free; after they launched it on their own launcher for $35. There’s MMR and now the lead dev wants to take it in a whole new ‘original vision’ direction than it’s been going. I bought it when they launched their own launcher but haven’t played since, and I can’t quite put my finger on why. Anyways, you’re my favorite journalist to watch now, you’ve improved a-lot! Peace
Your commentary about Halo 2’s launch really resonated with me and I’m sure a lot of your older audience. It was a magical time, I’m grateful I got to experience it knowing now how gamings future has played out
A great and very important video. I was a Xbox fan from the first Xbox on. Had all of them (even have 3 Series X at home for my kids as well) and was even a huge fan of Kinect and their TV features. But last month I built my first gaming PC cause I was just bored and annoyed to death from Xbox and their decisions and games. It's just nothing on Xbox anymore what's worth my time. All mediocre casual boring (yeah Starfield boooooooooring) stuff. Since I have my PC a whole new world opened up for me. It's sad to see what Xbox has become and scary to think what the future will look like if this "trend" is going on...
Ya I asked for Halo I remember getting the see thru green halo original Xbox and Halo CE bundle and that was all we need because we played only that until Halo 2 came out.
Naw... it was Ninja Gaiden that blew up the console to even have the Halo audience in the first place.... Ninja was the Consoles Hype Man... I was there! It was the first souls like difficulty game... Then halo and live hit about the same time 05-06ish
I'm almost 34, when I talk to these kids who are just a few years younger than me I feel like I'm talking to someone from a different time period. It's amazing and sad how quickly gaming changed.
Its not just gaming. Im 30 and when i was a kid EVERYONE had seen the lotr movies. When rings of power came out i asked some people at work if they had seen the movies and none of them had. For a lot of people rings of power is the first and probobly only view into a world that litteraly defined modern fantasy. 😕
Same, but I'm 44, so in that sense, I feel the same way about you guys. I was in my early 20s during the Halo craziness, so I had the perspective of seeing where gaming had come from from the NES days. Hell, I even worked at Game Stop as a teenager when cartridge systems were all that existed, and I remember the launch of the PS1 and the craziness at the store when that launched. Saw the Dreamcast come and go while I worked there too. Working there during those industry shaping days was something I'm always glad I got to experience.
Same way PS3 was able to regain the initiative in the last years when it released bangers like the last of us & MGS4. Microsoft focussed to much on the kinect and much less in exclusives.
I worked at EB Games (Canadian version of GameStop) for the Halo2 midnight launch. It was absolutely insane the hype that was there. Even us employees working were super stoked about it.
@@Grom8P it really was. The buzz, the hype, the excitement. We had people camping outside our store for HOURS before that Halo 2 launch. I think we ended up working until about 2 or 3 in the morning that night. It was crazy.
@@haydn9315 I think MAYBE EB Games stood for "electronics Boutique" but I'm not 100% sure about that. I'm pretty sure all of our EB Games stores are now all Game stops though. It's been a lot of years for me. 🤣
that E3 2013 moment was the single biggest mistake Xbox made and haven’t recovered since. Sony been fumbling for a minute and Xbox still can’t catch up
Yup, it really showed the difference when in high school pretty much everyone I knew had a 360 and I only knew one person that had a PS3. By the next generation it was the total opposite.
Thinking about the Xbox 360 and the dashboard brings tears to my eyes. The sound it made when you got an achievement made it feel like and accomplishment. Good times
That's why if I play a game on Gamepass, I download a cracked version so that I own it. Actually, I do that with physical copies of games I buy as well to bypass any DRM or online checks that could lead to the game being "taken away" from me at some arbitrary point. My cracked game catalog is now over 200 games deep and growing every day, and I'll own those games forever.
Foreal. We need true American gaming back! My mother bless her soul took me to the midnight release of halo 2 on a school night. I ordered the special edition with the metal tin case. Everyone in line at EB games was excited, people ordered pizza while waiting. I will never forget the moment and I realized looking back how much my mother loved me and just wanted me to be happy. My greatest gaming moments came with me going with my mom to the store to pick up a GameCube or when Pokemon base set came out I went to the card store and opened my pack while she was driving and pulled secret charizard! This video took me back!
“American gaming”…. Yeah… newsflash: America is NOT the gaming Capital of the World. Maybe Thats Why Xbox is failing. Unable to Connect with an international audience. In Europe and Asia - a huge gaming market many times bigger than America, Xbox doesnt have any foothold-
Lol I still remember my dad taking me to toys r us to get Pokémon red wayyyyy back. Also him taking me to blockbuster on Fridays after school to rent a game. Good times
Gears absolutely was inspired BY RE4, not the other way around. Re4 popularized the over the shoulder perspective...this is well known. Might wanna fix that
It sucks to see Xbox in this situation. I owned the original and the 360(also, a PS2, PS3 and Gamecube) and the 360 was a fantastic console. The original blade menu is such a sleek, minimalist design. And the games were fun. Especially when you had titles, like Halo 3, Fable, COD Modern Warfare etc.
As much as I loved the PlayStation 2 and a little bit towards GameCube during that era, there was something so awesome and special about the original Xbox - the custom soundtracks you could make on a console, the Xbox Live experience, and obviously the games; Fable, CS, Halo, Brute Force, Rainbow Six: Black Arrow, PGR, MechAssault, Panzer Dragoon Orta, and the list just goes on. I still go back and play these games to this day and while I do own a Series X (mainly for BC), I just don’t really care about the current mindset of Xbox as I primarily game on PC and Switch. Nothing grabs me anymore when something releases on their console and Game Pass hasn’t won me over.
Totally same feeling. I don't PC but my Switch is all I play. I have zero interest in the new systems. It's the first time I've ever not cared to own current gen. It's like they do not care about those who are not woke.
I just miss that era because developers and their games ALWAYS looked to shock and impress us. Now, they seem to do everything possible NOT to do those things as they feel doing so is antithetical to making a game appeal to the masses. "Soft modern" is more than just inserting ideologies into games, it's about softening all the edges of a game to make it as milquetoast as humanly possible.
There was a lot of things building up to that moment, but that super short clip really did feel like the gut punch that forced their downfall. Me not knowing all the behind the scenes business decisions as a teenager, it absolutely felt like the moment that started it all.
resident evil 4 came out before gears of war, did you miss that it was originaly a gamecube game? it's the game everyone tried to immitate, even gears of war.
Great video man, you really captured the feeling of the time. I feel like we're close in age and I remember all of the fond memories of playing Halo and the anticipation and excitement of the Halo 2 launch. I used to work at GameStop in high school and college, midnight launch events were a cool thing back then. The Redbull car used to show up to our store and hand out free Redbull all night. The early 00's were good times. 360 was the first console I bought on launch day, and it is still my favorite console by far.
I heard rumors that they're actually going to reboot the Halo franchise rather than just make a typical remake of the original Halo Combat Evolved. Meaning Xbox wants to exit the console business, Microsoft is hoping going Sega will make Halo as popular as Call of Duty.
It really is up to us gamers to turn this around. I firmly believe we are in the beginning of another gaming crash and it's severity and length will be determined by us, not corporations. Do your research and avoid devs/studios that are not gamer focused. This can mean a number of things to each person individually, but do not spend your money blindly anymore.
The only way to stop this gaming crash, it for devs to make the games that gamers want. Stop catering to this mythical modern audience, that either doesnt exist, doesnt play games or exists in such small numbers, they arent enough to make profit from! If devs continue on that track, then let gaming crash and crash hard!!
For all the resources, developers and money they had the output was just not great....i mean they had lionhead studios and have Rare and while Rare are not the developers of old they have IP that could be great today.
The current console generation really made me stick to PC. I had plans to buy an XSX and a PS5 but got discouraged by how small the library of first party exclusive games they have.. and I say this as I stare at my cabinet full off 360 and PS3 games. It's really disappointing considering how much they brag about the power and technology behind the current gen consoles and yet they don't have enough games to flex
I only moved to pc recently but I still own my series x just to finish some games off and ofc gta6. There is no point on owning a console with a pc, all the exclusives get ported to it eventually.
Honestly, there are games, you just have to go look for them now more. Gaming has gotten to the same size as movies or music, and most people don't just listen to the top 10 on the radio. They go out and find bands they like and will make their own playlists. But also, it's bc such a large amount of players are still on last gen. This gen has had a WAY longer tie over than ever before. All the last gen consoles should have been left behind once the chip shortages were cleared up. Yea, it's losing money but its also holding games back and leading to the "this gen has no games" thought that a lot of people wrongfully have.
I moved from pc to ps5 and its sooo easy and carefree, plus couch Coop gaming, and Big tv! Best shift i ever made. Soooo many games i need to get through!
@@Syldarin I'm happy for you. PC gaming can be a pain in the ass to set up sometimes, and if you just don't wanna deal with that nonsense, a console is most likely gonna give you an easier life. But that's pretty rare nowadays. I most of the time hear it the other way around, started on console and now switched over to PC.
E3 2013 happened where they shot themselves on the foot so hard it left them with a tiny stump for a leg. And then Sony came along as slam dunked the more capable PS4 into their face. Xbox was just never the same after that.
I appreciate this video man, great job. I'm much older today, fully grey beard gamer missing the old days of gaming. One thing that sticks out for me is remembering being so blown away by gaming and thinking to myself imagine what gaming will be when I'm much older. It can only get better, right.... No, all I'm left with is disappointment today and feeling nostalgic about the late 90's and early 2000's of gaming. Man, what the hell happened. Greed and politics destroying my beloved hobby...😢
Redfalls programming was atrocious. The ai couldn't even path around objects. Do you know how easy it is to path enemies? Incredibly easy. I've done it myself, the code is so simple and they couldn't handle it, and honestly if your program isn't working, just steal code that does, and they were too incompetent to even do that.
Great video, it's so sad how xbox has fallen. It's even sadder that there is not even a glimpse of hope for them to come back because of the people in charge
I bought into the Xbox back in early 2002. Playing Halo with my friends, then eventually cementing my love for the system with the easy to use Online Capability and of course Halo 2. The game that crushed PS2 into the dirt. I bought the 360 because of Halo 3 and Gears of War...and of course Xbox Live, the BEST to this day online service we have ever had. I bought the Xbox One and Halo couldnt hold me anymore, it wasnt a good game anymore, Gears wasn't a good game anymore (the directions changed). The titles that kept my on Xbox died. I owned PS1,2,3 and only played certain games, but nothing worked like Xbox Live. I attended EVERY midnight Launch for Halo 2, 3, Reach, Gears,2,3. This console and games defined my early teens and 20s. Steam and PC gaming replaced that feeling by supplying an easy to access library with easy to use online service, good game support and lets face it superior hardware. Xbox is dead, because it was unique. Microsoft has driven every nail into the coffin they built for themselves. Buying companies and destroying what they were systematically for over a decade. I can say I miss what It was, but remain indifferent to its slow death. I wanted to add in I cant agree more about the Xbox One killing my love of videogames for a few years. Its wild how bad that era was.
The whole DRM thing is so hilarious, did you know Sony had the same idea and shifted it on the spot when they witnessed the audience reaction to it on the Xbox One presentation as well as adjusting their price
I unfortunately saw the writing on the wall a long time ago. As soon as I saw gaming blow up. I was super happy, but super scared at the same time, because every time something goes mainstream, you know that the big executives are gonna notice and all they ever care about is profit and nothing else. Sometimes gatekeeping is good.
Does anyone else remember desperately calling support and them telling you to wrap your Xbox up in blankets, overheat the absolute hell out of it, and then pray that it restored itself back to normal ? When it actually worked and saved my first red ring at like 11 years old I was absolutely stunned but never ONCE blamed the creators of the Xbox for anything I was solely focused on getting that thing working again lol crazy times.
one thing that always makes me chuckles are the bethesda and activision buy-outs. if you told young me 10 years ago that bethesda, activison as well as blizzard would become xbox studios i would tell you that you from now on NEED to own an xbox system. Now tho. who cares? bethesda can't make a modern RPG to save their lives and activison-blizzard-king is really goddamn disgusting. i legit couldn't care less about a new elder scrolls and i am to old to still give that much of a shit about COD or be hyped for a new WOW expansion.
It's kind of remarkable, really. Not just with Xbox but with Bungie. Halo 2 and again with Destiny were some of the greatest times I've ever had in gaming. It is truly sad to witness the rot within these companies. The greed. The ideolical lectures. It has destroyed what used to be great.
Glad to see how this channel is growing. You started from passionately saying outloud based things that should be obvious to people, but they are not. Now your honesty and love for games is starting to pay off on a new level and it's a great thing to observe. Keep doing what you doing, friend!
"they chase the people that don't care about their products" is so 2010s and 2020s. Seems like every franchise, ever company, every studio is doing just that, ignoring their core audience and just chase ghosts, ghosts who don't buy their products
Wow this video brought back some real and true memories. I grew up in the 90s and omg im so thankful I got to experience these things you are talking about going to launch parties not just for halo but for call of duty when they used to be good. Standing in line cold as shit waiting for store to open get in get home and just play for hours with my xbox friends fuck I miss this almost makes me want to cry lol
I also got Xbox One for its multimedia aspect, but I feel Microsoft underestimated the rise of smart tvs. They effectively made the multimedia aspect of Xbox, the most marketed aspect of that console, redundant. People didn't need to buy the console, it came standard with most new tvs. That plus a lack of interesting games made the Xbox One an anchor for them. Their bluray player is also crap when playing dvds; audio runs out of sync on my tv. They've never bothered to fix it and instead blame it on my television. A television that has no issues when I use that exact same tv and dvd in a PS4.
Playing OG Halo at a friend's house got me to buy an xbox the next day and was a fan ever since. The 360 days were peak. It's a damn shame how 343 and MS have fumbled Halo time after time since Bungie left though. Resident Evil 4 came out a year before Gears of War. Just sayin' lol. Great video though.
Correction: The decision to make Redfall was not made by Xbox. It was made by Zenimax when they were in the process of acquisition to pump up the value of the company. Arkane developers were hoping that Microsoft would cancel the project but Phil Spencer did what he thought was permitting studio autonomy and kept all projects on course after acquisition.
Halo, Oblivion, Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect. These gamers were my childhood on the xbox. What is getting released these days? Its sad to see a titan fall.
Halo 2, 3 and 4, i bought tin box edition and booked a day off work to play it!! Halo was monumental! It did change how fps games were made from then on!! Still have alot of cool memories of the 360!
TH-camrs like you are to game journalists what indie game creators are to AAA devs, you bring us the content that the more established brands seem to close their eyes to over and over again.
Halo 2? Me and my brother had it pre-ordered and saw the line for it. He got it, we played the entire campaign along with Halo 1 that day. The only thing like that was Dragon Quest in Japan that was this huge.
Great video, and I am seeing the exact same things you are talking about. Happy to see that others pick up up on these issues as well, I thought for a minute that I was the only one feeling this way. The gaming industry today are not the same as when I played games in the earty 2000's.
I graduated high school in 2001. That year, I remember camping outside of Toys R Us to get my Xbox and Halo: CE on launch night. I really miss the excitement and hype of doing these types of things. I miss the old days of gaming so much. It just feels hollow a lot of the time now. Fast forward, I was an Xbox 360 guy all the way. I remember buying an Xbox One, but it sat beside my TV sealed in the box for almost 90 days because it felt boring. I took it back to Best Buy right before my 90 days was up, and got a PS4. Fast forward again, when the Xbox Series X and PS5 launched, I bought myself and my buddy, who wasn't employed at the time, both consoles so we could jump back into party gaming again like the 360 days. Sadly, we both ended up getting rid of our Series X's, and while my PS5 is still connected to my TV, I honestly couldn't tell you the last time I actually signed on to it. So, so sad. How appropriate is it that the Nolan trilogy quote continues to be relevant to these situations. "You either die the hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
We dug our xbox 360 and all the games back out of the attic this week. I have told the kids the only thing we game on where we do not have a physical copy is the pc. Consoles were when we owned the game. Now no one owns anything. The first sign of streamed games was the end. Digital copies are garbage. I want to decide if I play a game I pay for in the future or ignore it. PS held out a little longer with a few PS4 titles but still requires the service. At least with the 360 I can still pop in my disc and play with the service.
These Videos are awesome, but Xbox was not transparent about RRD for an excruciatingly long time they famously said the defect rate was within normal consumer electronics defect rate for most of the consoles run or at least until the revised version
Something that has bugged me about Halo, and I feel like many feel the same way is, why did they need to limit themselves to just being an arena fps? They branch out slightly with Halo wars and their various arcade games, but the main experiences are always just the same feeling arena shooter. The universe is so vast and interesting that I'll never understand why they wouldn't branch Halo out into different generes.
I feel your passion and pain so well. I was only a little kid when the era was ending but I got the experience through my older brothers playing the game and seeing their friends around playing and then when I was older playing with my brothers and his friends to get the experience myself before joining the “modern” gaming era which is just a waste of potential for profit.
I remember as a kid just driving in circles while I had a rocket marine on the back of my mongoose shooting at the 2 scarabs we had to take down. Best mission ever.
Halo 2 was insane. Then halo 3 fuck I was at the Time Square Best Buy where a literal WortHog and a dude dressed up as Master Chief came to "deliver" the game in a suit case. It was epic as fuck.
For what it's worth I love the long form content. 99% of my youtube use is purely for the audio as I'm doing other tasks. Having longer videos means I'm having to find other videos less which is a boon. Dropped a sub and like and hope you consider mixing in longer videos here and there.
I started gaming around the time of Super Mario 64. I can confirm that Halo was a game changer and not in just game play. Something like 25% of people in America would go and skip work the day any halo game released. They actually reported it on the news. I remember when it seemed like Xbox was unstoppable. That all came to an end with Halo 4.
Thank you for bringing back so many amazing memories in the first half. They were different times. Hopefully these feelings will return some day. Unfortunately the 2nd half makes me think that will be a long way off.
As a Xbox fan from the beginning, I have owned every Xbox console and Playstation. I have always just bought exclusives on playstation but bought everything else on Xbox. It was my main console. But I have since switched to buying eveything on Playstation and only playing whatever exclusives are on Xbox.
Looking back and having halo reach with my buddies at the age of 14, to getting halo 4 for the Xbox one, and now the series, it’s so sad. I am genuinely switching to get a PC now, and unfortunately, will likely backtrack on my life and hop over to Nintendo. There’s just no couch co-op anymore for Xbox either :(
Chasing after people who do not play videogames is so full of assumptions and biggest one of them is: "We are so smart and clever that we WILL be able to make people who don't play videogames, play them because we have some kind of supernatural abilities.". I would so like to be in the shareholder meeting and pick one guy from the room who has been married for a few decades or so. Then ask him to tell me about their first date and ask: "So your wife started liking you, because of you, without any kind of forcing or clever tricks from you? Ain't that curious...". No amount of sports advertisement in all their forms is going to suddenly make me start to play sports games, just like you can't force someone to love you. Same with people who don't play videogames. It's absurd they STILL have that idea in their heads after all the different executives and years and looking at results of it. I remember thinking about an example of the CEO way of thinking in my mind the other day. If a developer would be fed up enough and killed the company's CEO and left a note on the reason... the CEOs would not change their mindset. No. They would simply build a bulletproof glass wall with a door on it and communicate through that. Someone comes in with some explosives? Make it into a thick steel wall with a door. Surely it's not us and the agenda we are pushing, it's the customers and developers who are wrong.
Great video - normally I avoid longer videos but glad I didn't skip this one. My experience with Xbox/MS has followed your trajectory - I didn't play FPS games at all until Halo came out and Gears of War is still one of my favorite ever gaming experiences but the Xbox One was pretty sad by comparison.
My decision to purchase an Xbox was always the idea that the Xbox was a alternative to purchasing a PC, for those that did not want all of the additional responsibilities of purchasing a PC. Microsoft has fumbled the bag and ball in the gaming sphere, when they could have sought out PC game developers to put their early access and betas on their platform, giving them a competitive edge over Sony. Instead we witnessed mass purchases of properties and companies, with very little to show for it and here we are now.
When 343 fired all the original males that made halo was the downfall of xbox. Microsoft forcing gay propaganda in halo infinite and on my UI is what lead to my decision to stop playing games on xbox.
Yeahh its been like this since the Xbox one and ps4 released. Sales went through the roof for Sony and PlayStation with all the exclusives and superior hardware while Xbox was advertising Netflix and sky tv in their showcases. Then Current gen consoles dropped and Ps5 completely knocked the series X out the waters. Xbox 360 is still goated to this day but every Xbox console after that hasn’t been able to keep up with Sony and especially PC. Had to double check the facts in case there was an update in sales and no. In fact ps4 and ps5 have more than double the amount of sales as their Xbox opposites.
@@IIIIPainIIII you're right. With the Xbox One launch, they focused on it being an entertainment system rather than a gaming console and tried going completely digital. Like they had no idea who their consumers are and what they want.
@@jediflip2515 That’s what they aimed for I believe. I think Xbox is more of a family friendly console for the wife and kids to get involved with where as everything else focuses on the true gamer. Shit even the Nintendo switch does it better than Xbox these days which is sad because the 360 was such a titan in the industry.
Thank you for this video. Your recap of the historic time up to the Xbox One was so on point and accurate, I almost teared up being reminded what a great time it was. Original Xbox and mostly 360 were so good, I as a life long PC Gamer fully switched to 360 in 2007 for a few years just because it had the best games. All the best games. I did not buy an Xbox One or any other Xbox since. 360 was a once in a lifetime experience. Today I'm a very happy PC gamer once again.
People nowadays don’t seem to realize how utterly devastating that Xbox One presentation was. Xbox never truly recovered even to this day. That PS4 commercial on how to share your games was so brutal and such a gut punch to the Xbox brand.
You did skip over XBMC on the original XBox, that was the #1 reason to own one, you basically bought it and then had it installed before you even thought about a game or anything like that, or at least that's how it was in Australia. I think that's also a part of what drove their TV focus, they saw how popular that was and tried to monetise it, I mean it was basically the interface for X360. Otherwise, completely agree.
Remember when having cable with over 500 channels? But nothing to watch? Streaming services have ALL these shows but still nothing to watch. Gamepass has all these games but still nothing to play. For me at least. Their original IP’s are in shambles. Even some making a come back but I am still very weary of it. Xbox just doesn’t have any good exclusives anymore. Everything is on PC now. I sold my xbox. Maybe in the next few years, I will consider buying one again. If they ever will come out with one.
I really feel the launch of Halo 4 was the begininng of the end for xbox. Was it good? Sure it checked alot of the boxes, but it felt like the soul of Halo was gone and all of xbox (both hardware and software) were gone. Everything felt like it was made for the shareholders, not the players.
Metaphor: Refantazio opened to #37 on Xbox despite having exclusive marketing rights. Anyone who goes on about how Final Fantasy would sell far more if it was multiplatform is deluded about the viability of JRPG success on Xbox. Not to mention the sales bump exclusive games get. Look at the sales figures for Octopath Traveller 1 on Switch vs 2 in all platforms despite reviewing better.
The infamous Xbox One presentation where they presented everything about the console except the games. They tried to make an "all in one" entertainment system that operated with Kinect and forgot that people just wanted a good VIDEO GAME console that played good VIDEO GAMES.
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Thanks for watching guys, this one was a heck of a trip.
Was this OG a 2 Part video? Nice that sponsors give you the power to give us double the output.
Hope you don't burn out - with the sad topics you report on.
Hey man, been a subscriber since you covered the naked meta in Dark and Darker. Not sure if you remember me, but I went hard on you in the comments and then apologized later in chat on one of your streams cus you were doing great journalism and I just had to give you props for that. Anyways, I know it’s not a popping game anymore but you should cover DaD again cus you might find there’s a good story in there about why it failed to keep up the player count; even though it’s back on steam now for free; after they launched it on their own launcher for $35. There’s MMR and now the lead dev wants to take it in a whole new ‘original vision’ direction than it’s been going. I bought it when they launched their own launcher but haven’t played since, and I can’t quite put my finger on why. Anyways, you’re my favorite journalist to watch now, you’ve improved a-lot! Peace
Your commentary about Halo 2’s launch really resonated with me and I’m sure a lot of your older audience. It was a magical time, I’m grateful I got to experience it knowing now how gamings future has played out
A great and very important video. I was a Xbox fan from the first Xbox on. Had all of them (even have 3 Series X at home for my kids as well) and was even a huge fan of Kinect and their TV features. But last month I built my first gaming PC cause I was just bored and annoyed to death from Xbox and their decisions and games. It's just nothing on Xbox anymore what's worth my time. All mediocre casual boring (yeah Starfield boooooooooring) stuff.
Since I have my PC a whole new world opened up for me. It's sad to see what Xbox has become and scary to think what the future will look like if this "trend" is going on...
Halo was the reason a lot of people bought Xbox’s and now that game is in shambles. That plays a huge factor
The thing is Xbox getting carried by halo for almost 2 decades now. Like how can some mega corp put all their eggs in one basket
Halo Infinite is fun as hell now. Ppl just haven’t boot it up recently
Ya I asked for Halo I remember getting the see thru green halo original Xbox and Halo CE bundle and that was all we need because we played only that until Halo 2 came out.
Naw... it was Ninja Gaiden that blew up the console to even have the Halo audience in the first place....
Ninja was the Consoles Hype Man... I was there! It was the first souls like difficulty game...
Then halo and live hit about the same time 05-06ish
@@JonathanTacoman So are dozens of other fps games that are more succesful
I'm almost 34, when I talk to these kids who are just a few years younger than me I feel like I'm talking to someone from a different time period. It's amazing and sad how quickly gaming changed.
It truly is im 33 and when I talk about it u get a blank stare
Its not just gaming. Im 30 and when i was a kid EVERYONE had seen the lotr movies. When rings of power came out i asked some people at work if they had seen the movies and none of them had. For a lot of people rings of power is the first and probobly only view into a world that litteraly defined modern fantasy. 😕
Same, but I'm 44, so in that sense, I feel the same way about you guys. I was in my early 20s during the Halo craziness, so I had the perspective of seeing where gaming had come from from the NES days. Hell, I even worked at Game Stop as a teenager when cartridge systems were all that existed, and I remember the launch of the PS1 and the craziness at the store when that launched. Saw the Dreamcast come and go while I worked there too. Working there during those industry shaping days was something I'm always glad I got to experience.
35 here and I feel like I’m a stranger in my own world these days.
@@failedGraphicsthat’s fucking sad
Xbox 360 thrived on console exclusives. PGR and Forza sold me. Halo 3 sold all of my friends. When those franchises went to shit, I stopped caring.
Same way PS3 was able to regain the initiative in the last years when it released bangers like the last of us & MGS4. Microsoft focussed to much on the kinect and much less in exclusives.
Pretty sure Punishing Gray Raven isnt on Xbox
@@F4Wildcatmetal gear wasn’t an exclusive lol ps3 def had no exclusives compared to 360
Gears of War
Brother, Gears of War😮
I worked at EB Games (Canadian version of GameStop) for the Halo2 midnight launch. It was absolutely insane the hype that was there. Even us employees working were super stoked about it.
I worked the midnight for Smash Brawl @ EB and that was pretty hype too. Almost a different era those times.
Wtf there's EB Games in Canada? Did it used to be called Electronics Boutique before it was renamed to EB Games too, like here in Australia?
@@Grom8P it really was. The buzz, the hype, the excitement. We had people camping outside our store for HOURS before that Halo 2 launch. I think we ended up working until about 2 or 3 in the morning that night. It was crazy.
@@haydn9315 It was Electronics Boutique yes. But now it’s all rebranded under GameStop.
@@haydn9315 I think MAYBE EB Games stood for "electronics Boutique" but I'm not 100% sure about that. I'm pretty sure all of our EB Games stores are now all Game stops though. It's been a lot of years for me. 🤣
that E3 2013 moment was the single biggest mistake Xbox made and haven’t recovered since. Sony been fumbling for a minute and Xbox still can’t catch up
Yup, it really showed the difference when in high school pretty much everyone I knew had a 360 and I only knew one person that had a PS3.
By the next generation it was the total opposite.
Thinking about the Xbox 360 and the dashboard brings tears to my eyes. The sound it made when you got an achievement made it feel like and accomplishment. Good times
Yeah, it’s a shame the red ring of death really let that console down. After my 360 got red ringed I got a ps3 and never looked back
"You will own nothing and be happy"
WEF
That's why if I play a game on Gamepass, I download a cracked version so that I own it. Actually, I do that with physical copies of games I buy as well to bypass any DRM or online checks that could lead to the game being "taken away" from me at some arbitrary point. My cracked game catalog is now over 200 games deep and growing every day, and I'll own those games forever.
@@1_underthesundumb question but if you put it all on a 2 terabyte m.2 ssd will you just be able to put it in a new pc build without any issues ?
@@salmark9080 Yes, you can
Foreal. We need true American gaming back! My mother bless her soul took me to the midnight release of halo 2 on a school night. I ordered the special edition with the metal tin case. Everyone in line at EB games was excited, people ordered pizza while waiting. I will never forget the moment and I realized looking back how much my mother loved me and just wanted me to be happy. My greatest gaming moments came with me going with my mom to the store to pick up a GameCube or when Pokemon base set came out I went to the card store and opened my pack while she was driving and pulled secret charizard! This video took me back!
“American gaming”…. Yeah… newsflash: America is NOT the gaming Capital of the World. Maybe Thats Why Xbox is failing. Unable to Connect with an international audience. In Europe and Asia - a huge gaming market many times bigger than America, Xbox doesnt have any foothold-
Lol I still remember my dad taking me to toys r us to get Pokémon red wayyyyy back. Also him taking me to blockbuster on Fridays after school to rent a game. Good times
I loved reading this!!!
Gears absolutely was inspired BY RE4, not the other way around. Re4 popularized the over the shoulder perspective...this is well known. Might wanna fix that
After 20-20-20 min videos - now a full hour Cinema video
now wait until the asmongold react video to go 3 hours
An hour long video by LD? This is gonna be so good.
"Treat Others As THEY Want To Be Treated"..... Thats what happened!
💯%!!! PERIOD!!!
22:02 correction RE 4 already exist before GoW
It sucks to see Xbox in this situation. I owned the original and the 360(also, a PS2, PS3 and Gamecube) and the 360 was a fantastic console. The original blade menu is such a sleek, minimalist design. And the games were fun. Especially when you had titles, like Halo 3, Fable, COD Modern Warfare etc.
As much as I loved the PlayStation 2 and a little bit towards GameCube during that era, there was something so awesome and special about the original Xbox - the custom soundtracks you could make on a console, the Xbox Live experience, and obviously the games; Fable, CS, Halo, Brute Force, Rainbow Six: Black Arrow, PGR, MechAssault, Panzer Dragoon Orta, and the list just goes on. I still go back and play these games to this day and while I do own a Series X (mainly for BC), I just don’t really care about the current mindset of Xbox as I primarily game on PC and Switch. Nothing grabs me anymore when something releases on their console and Game Pass hasn’t won me over.
Totally same feeling. I don't PC but my Switch is all I play. I have zero interest in the new systems. It's the first time I've ever not cared to own current gen.
It's like they do not care about those who are not woke.
I just miss that era because developers and their games ALWAYS looked to shock and impress us. Now, they seem to do everything possible NOT to do those things as they feel doing so is antithetical to making a game appeal to the masses. "Soft modern" is more than just inserting ideologies into games, it's about softening all the edges of a game to make it as milquetoast as humanly possible.
Oh man, Brute Force ha. Throwback. I think I actually finished that game but forgot it existed.
Microsoft lost their way with Halo. That's what happened to XBox
Not just Halo but every franchise under them
ever since they tried to push the xbox one as a "tv" box its gone downhill since then
They dropped every franchise they had like Halo Fable GoW so they can buy "new" ones from BGS and Activision Blizzard to replace them.
Just with gaming in general
It all started with PlayStations “how to share games on PS4 video”
There was a lot of things building up to that moment, but that super short clip really did feel like the gut punch that forced their downfall. Me not knowing all the behind the scenes business decisions as a teenager, it absolutely felt like the moment that started it all.
resident evil 4 came out before gears of war, did you miss that it was originaly a gamecube game? it's the game everyone tried to immitate, even gears of war.
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Gears of War - November 7, 2006
Resident Evil 4 - January 11, 2005
Great video man, you really captured the feeling of the time. I feel like we're close in age and I remember all of the fond memories of playing Halo and the anticipation and excitement of the Halo 2 launch. I used to work at GameStop in high school and college, midnight launch events were a cool thing back then. The Redbull car used to show up to our store and hand out free Redbull all night. The early 00's were good times. 360 was the first console I bought on launch day, and it is still my favorite console by far.
I heard rumors that they're actually going to reboot the Halo franchise rather than just make a typical remake of the original Halo Combat Evolved. Meaning Xbox wants to exit the console business, Microsoft is hoping going Sega will make Halo as popular as Call of Duty.
It really is up to us gamers to turn this around. I firmly believe we are in the beginning of another gaming crash and it's severity and length will be determined by us, not corporations. Do your research and avoid devs/studios that are not gamer focused. This can mean a number of things to each person individually, but do not spend your money blindly anymore.
The only way to stop this gaming crash, it for devs to make the games that gamers want.
Stop catering to this mythical modern audience, that either doesnt exist, doesnt play games or exists in such small numbers, they arent enough to make profit from!
If devs continue on that track, then let gaming crash and crash hard!!
Took the words out my mouth 🔥
That dial up rant really hit the feels
The May 2013 presentation happened.
For all the resources, developers and money they had the output was just not great....i mean they had lionhead studios and have Rare and while Rare are not the developers of old they have IP that could be great today.
Exactly why are they not working on another Killer Instinct game for example that was the one killer app they had all 8th gen
Weimar Republic happened to Xbox.
The current console generation really made me stick to PC. I had plans to buy an XSX and a PS5 but got discouraged by how small the library of first party exclusive games they have.. and I say this as I stare at my cabinet full off 360 and PS3 games. It's really disappointing considering how much they brag about the power and technology behind the current gen consoles and yet they don't have enough games to flex
I only moved to pc recently but I still own my series x just to finish some games off and ofc gta6. There is no point on owning a console with a pc, all the exclusives get ported to it eventually.
Honestly, there are games, you just have to go look for them now more. Gaming has gotten to the same size as movies or music, and most people don't just listen to the top 10 on the radio. They go out and find bands they like and will make their own playlists. But also, it's bc such a large amount of players are still on last gen. This gen has had a WAY longer tie over than ever before. All the last gen consoles should have been left behind once the chip shortages were cleared up. Yea, it's losing money but its also holding games back and leading to the "this gen has no games" thought that a lot of people wrongfully have.
@@Layla-p2h And that's happening faster and faster. Soon, PC versions will launch day 1 along with its console version.
I moved from pc to ps5 and its sooo easy and carefree, plus couch Coop gaming, and Big tv! Best shift i ever made. Soooo many games i need to get through!
@@Syldarin I'm happy for you. PC gaming can be a pain in the ass to set up sometimes, and if you just don't wanna deal with that nonsense, a console is most likely gonna give you an easier life. But that's pretty rare nowadays. I most of the time hear it the other way around, started on console and now switched over to PC.
E3 2013 happened where they shot themselves on the foot so hard it left them with a tiny stump for a leg. And then Sony came along as slam dunked the more capable PS4 into their face.
Xbox was just never the same after that.
I appreciate this video man, great job. I'm much older today, fully grey beard gamer missing the old days of gaming. One thing that sticks out for me is remembering being so blown away by gaming and thinking to myself imagine what gaming will be when I'm much older. It can only get better, right.... No, all I'm left with is disappointment today and feeling nostalgic about the late 90's and early 2000's of gaming. Man, what the hell happened. Greed and politics destroying my beloved hobby...😢
The first half of this video made me teary-eyed with nostalgia. The 2nd half made me just angry at the world. Great video. 👍
Sweet baby inc happens.
They went GAY.
As a XIV player, I appreciate the XIV "they don't want money"meme jab.
Redfalls programming was atrocious. The ai couldn't even path around objects. Do you know how easy it is to path enemies? Incredibly easy. I've done it myself, the code is so simple and they couldn't handle it, and honestly if your program isn't working, just steal code that does, and they were too incompetent to even do that.
Here starts LDs career as a short documentary film maker
Great video, it's so sad how xbox has fallen. It's even sadder that there is not even a glimpse of hope for them to come back because of the people in charge
I bought into the Xbox back in early 2002. Playing Halo with my friends, then eventually cementing my love for the system with the easy to use Online Capability and of course Halo 2. The game that crushed PS2 into the dirt. I bought the 360 because of Halo 3 and Gears of War...and of course Xbox Live, the BEST to this day online service we have ever had. I bought the Xbox One and Halo couldnt hold me anymore, it wasnt a good game anymore, Gears wasn't a good game anymore (the directions changed). The titles that kept my on Xbox died. I owned PS1,2,3 and only played certain games, but nothing worked like Xbox Live. I attended EVERY midnight Launch for Halo 2, 3, Reach, Gears,2,3. This console and games defined my early teens and 20s.
Steam and PC gaming replaced that feeling by supplying an easy to access library with easy to use online service, good game support and lets face it superior hardware.
Xbox is dead, because it was unique. Microsoft has driven every nail into the coffin they built for themselves. Buying companies and destroying what they were systematically for over a decade. I can say I miss what It was, but remain indifferent to its slow death. I wanted to add in I cant agree more about the Xbox One killing my love of videogames for a few years. Its wild how bad that era was.
The whole DRM thing is so hilarious, did you know Sony had the same idea and shifted it on the spot when they witnessed the audience reaction to it on the Xbox One presentation as well as adjusting their price
I unfortunately saw the writing on the wall a long time ago. As soon as I saw gaming blow up. I was super happy, but super scared at the same time, because every time something goes mainstream, you know that the big executives are gonna notice and all they ever care about is profit and nothing else. Sometimes gatekeeping is good.
1 xbox fanboy got hurt watching this video
Does anyone else remember desperately calling support and them telling you to wrap your Xbox up in blankets, overheat the absolute hell out of it, and then pray that it restored itself back to normal ? When it actually worked and saved my first red ring at like 11 years old I was absolutely stunned but never ONCE blamed the creators of the Xbox for anything I was solely focused on getting that thing working again lol crazy times.
End end section is downright prophetic, and that's something that I don't want but I think it'll end up there
one thing that always makes me chuckles are the bethesda and activision buy-outs.
if you told young me 10 years ago that bethesda, activison as well as blizzard would become xbox studios i would tell you that you from now on NEED to own an xbox system.
Now tho. who cares? bethesda can't make a modern RPG to save their lives and activison-blizzard-king is really goddamn disgusting.
i legit couldn't care less about a new elder scrolls and i am to old to still give that much of a shit about COD or be hyped for a new WOW expansion.
It's kind of remarkable, really. Not just with Xbox but with Bungie. Halo 2 and again with Destiny were some of the greatest times I've ever had in gaming. It is truly sad to witness the rot within these companies. The greed. The ideolical lectures. It has destroyed what used to be great.
Glad to see how this channel is growing. You started from passionately saying outloud based things that should be obvious to people, but they are not. Now your honesty and love for games is starting to pay off on a new level and it's a great thing to observe. Keep doing what you doing, friend!
"they chase the people that don't care about their products" is so 2010s and 2020s. Seems like every franchise, ever company, every studio is doing just that, ignoring their core audience and just chase ghosts, ghosts who don't buy their products
resident evil 4 came out before gears of war. need to check your dates before making such big claims my dude.
He just mixed up the dates gow released 2007 while re 4 was a 2004 title , obviously he just made a mistake
thats what i was thinking aha ! RE4 is the pioneer of overshoulder control.
Wow this video brought back some real and true memories. I grew up in the 90s and omg im so thankful I got to experience these things you are talking about going to launch parties not just for halo but for call of duty when they used to be good. Standing in line cold as shit waiting for store to open get in get home and just play for hours with my xbox friends fuck I miss this almost makes me want to cry lol
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Correction: Resident Evil 4 came out in 2005 so Gears of War had no influence over RE4.
Microsoft happened to Xbox. That's why.
I will NEVER FORGIVE THEM for how they treated Halo, arguably my favorite FPS franchise ever.
I skipped the ad and so can you 2:10
Microsoft doing Microsoft things happened
Halo:CE is why I got an Xbox. Halo Infinity is the reason I quit gamepass.
The future is indie.
I also got Xbox One for its multimedia aspect, but I feel Microsoft underestimated the rise of smart tvs. They effectively made the multimedia aspect of Xbox, the most marketed aspect of that console, redundant. People didn't need to buy the console, it came standard with most new tvs. That plus a lack of interesting games made the Xbox One an anchor for them. Their bluray player is also crap when playing dvds; audio runs out of sync on my tv. They've never bothered to fix it and instead blame it on my television. A television that has no issues when I use that exact same tv and dvd in a PS4.
Playing OG Halo at a friend's house got me to buy an xbox the next day and was a fan ever since. The 360 days were peak. It's a damn shame how 343 and MS have fumbled Halo time after time since Bungie left though.
Resident Evil 4 came out a year before Gears of War. Just sayin' lol. Great video though.
Correction: The decision to make Redfall was not made by Xbox. It was made by Zenimax when they were in the process of acquisition to pump up the value of the company. Arkane developers were hoping that Microsoft would cancel the project but Phil Spencer did what he thought was permitting studio autonomy and kept all projects on course after acquisition.
Halo, Oblivion, Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect. These gamers were my childhood on the xbox. What is getting released these days? Its sad to see a titan fall.
Halo 2, 3 and 4, i bought tin box edition and booked a day off work to play it!!
Halo was monumental!
It did change how fps games were made from then on!!
Still have alot of cool memories of the 360!
TH-camrs like you are to game journalists what indie game creators are to AAA devs, you bring us the content that the more established brands seem to close their eyes to over and over again.
Halo 2?
Me and my brother had it pre-ordered and saw the line for it. He got it, we played the entire campaign along with Halo 1 that day.
The only thing like that was Dragon Quest in Japan that was this huge.
Great video, and I am seeing the exact same things you are talking about.
Happy to see that others pick up up on these issues as well, I thought for a minute that I was the only one feeling this way.
The gaming industry today are not the same as when I played games in the earty 2000's.
I graduated high school in 2001. That year, I remember camping outside of Toys R Us to get my Xbox and Halo: CE on launch night. I really miss the excitement and hype of doing these types of things. I miss the old days of gaming so much. It just feels hollow a lot of the time now.
Fast forward, I was an Xbox 360 guy all the way. I remember buying an Xbox One, but it sat beside my TV sealed in the box for almost 90 days because it felt boring. I took it back to Best Buy right before my 90 days was up, and got a PS4.
Fast forward again, when the Xbox Series X and PS5 launched, I bought myself and my buddy, who wasn't employed at the time, both consoles so we could jump back into party gaming again like the 360 days. Sadly, we both ended up getting rid of our Series X's, and while my PS5 is still connected to my TV, I honestly couldn't tell you the last time I actually signed on to it. So, so sad.
How appropriate is it that the Nolan trilogy quote continues to be relevant to these situations. "You either die the hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
We dug our xbox 360 and all the games back out of the attic this week. I have told the kids the only thing we game on where we do not have a physical copy is the pc. Consoles were when we owned the game. Now no one owns anything. The first sign of streamed games was the end. Digital copies are garbage. I want to decide if I play a game I pay for in the future or ignore it. PS held out a little longer with a few PS4 titles but still requires the service. At least with the 360 I can still pop in my disc and play with the service.
These Videos are awesome, but Xbox was not transparent about RRD for an excruciatingly long time they famously said the defect rate was within normal consumer electronics defect rate for most of the consoles run or at least until the revised version
Damn 1 minute after upload and already halfway to 100 views. You made it man
Something that has bugged me about Halo, and I feel like many feel the same way is, why did they need to limit themselves to just being an arena fps? They branch out slightly with Halo wars and their various arcade games, but the main experiences are always just the same feeling arena shooter. The universe is so vast and interesting that I'll never understand why they wouldn't branch Halo out into different generes.
I feel your passion and pain so well. I was only a little kid when the era was ending but I got the experience through my older brothers playing the game and seeing their friends around playing and then when I was older playing with my brothers and his friends to get the experience myself before joining the “modern” gaming era which is just a waste of potential for profit.
I remember as a kid just driving in circles while I had a rocket marine on the back of my mongoose shooting at the 2 scarabs we had to take down. Best mission ever.
Halo 2 was insane. Then halo 3 fuck I was at the Time Square Best Buy where a literal WortHog and a dude dressed up as Master Chief came to "deliver" the game in a suit case. It was epic as fuck.
Bro one of your best videos yet this is exactly why the series x is my last console and im actually gonna get my first pc soon truly amazing video.
For what it's worth I love the long form content. 99% of my youtube use is purely for the audio as I'm doing other tasks. Having longer videos means I'm having to find other videos less which is a boon. Dropped a sub and like and hope you consider mixing in longer videos here and there.
Yup. This is why I've been moving more towards indie games on Steam and emulation of older titles than AAA titles.
I started gaming around the time of Super Mario 64. I can confirm that Halo was a game changer and not in just game play. Something like 25% of people in America would go and skip work the day any halo game released. They actually reported it on the news. I remember when it seemed like Xbox was unstoppable. That all came to an end with Halo 4.
Bro this video made me want to cry, I was in High school during the peak of Halo
"saved" --> watch later... this is gonna be my bedtime video
As somebody who’s never owned an Xbox. I’m almost jealous.
I remember going to a LAN party with a large group of friends, and it’s a core memory.
Forza, Halo, Gears... Forza, Halo, Gears... I kind of miss them days.
Thank you for bringing back so many amazing memories in the first half. They were different times. Hopefully these feelings will return some day. Unfortunately the 2nd half makes me think that will be a long way off.
As a Xbox fan from the beginning, I have owned every Xbox console and Playstation. I have always just bought exclusives on playstation but bought everything else on Xbox. It was my main console. But I have since switched to buying eveything on Playstation and only playing whatever exclusives are on Xbox.
Looking back and having halo reach with my buddies at the age of 14, to getting halo 4 for the Xbox one, and now the series, it’s so sad. I am genuinely switching to get a PC now, and unfortunately, will likely backtrack on my life and hop over to Nintendo. There’s just no couch co-op anymore for Xbox either :(
Chasing after people who do not play videogames is so full of assumptions and biggest one of them is: "We are so smart and clever that we WILL be able to make people who don't play videogames, play them because we have some kind of supernatural abilities.". I would so like to be in the shareholder meeting and pick one guy from the room who has been married for a few decades or so. Then ask him to tell me about their first date and ask: "So your wife started liking you, because of you, without any kind of forcing or clever tricks from you? Ain't that curious...". No amount of sports advertisement in all their forms is going to suddenly make me start to play sports games, just like you can't force someone to love you. Same with people who don't play videogames. It's absurd they STILL have that idea in their heads after all the different executives and years and looking at results of it.
I remember thinking about an example of the CEO way of thinking in my mind the other day. If a developer would be fed up enough and killed the company's CEO and left a note on the reason... the CEOs would not change their mindset. No. They would simply build a bulletproof glass wall with a door on it and communicate through that. Someone comes in with some explosives? Make it into a thick steel wall with a door. Surely it's not us and the agenda we are pushing, it's the customers and developers who are wrong.
Great video - normally I avoid longer videos but glad I didn't skip this one. My experience with Xbox/MS has followed your trajectory - I didn't play FPS games at all until Halo came out and Gears of War is still one of my favorite ever gaming experiences but the Xbox One was pretty sad by comparison.
It feels like everything was better back then.
GTA6 is gonna be the first game to cost me $570: $70 for the game, and $500 for the Xbox I'm gonna have to play it on
My decision to purchase an Xbox was always the idea that the Xbox was a alternative to purchasing a PC, for those that did not want all of the additional responsibilities of purchasing a PC. Microsoft has fumbled the bag and ball in the gaming sphere, when they could have sought out PC game developers to put their early access and betas on their platform, giving them a competitive edge over Sony. Instead we witnessed mass purchases of properties and companies, with very little to show for it and here we are now.
When 343 fired all the original males that made halo was the downfall of xbox. Microsoft forcing gay propaganda in halo infinite and on my UI is what lead to my decision to stop playing games on xbox.
incel alert
Too bad playstation isn't any better.
Lots of their first party games have that.
Only place to just get normal games is steam
To be fair their downfall started earlier but Microsofts need to push "The Message" certainly didn't help .
dam didnt know xbox was the underdog
Yeahh its been like this since the Xbox one and ps4 released. Sales went through the roof for Sony and PlayStation with all the exclusives and superior hardware while Xbox was advertising Netflix and sky tv in their showcases. Then Current gen consoles dropped and Ps5 completely knocked the series X out the waters. Xbox 360 is still goated to this day but every Xbox console after that hasn’t been able to keep up with Sony and especially PC.
Had to double check the facts in case there was an update in sales and no. In fact ps4 and ps5 have more than double the amount of sales as their Xbox opposites.
@@IIIIPainIIII you're right. With the Xbox One launch, they focused on it being an entertainment system rather than a gaming console and tried going completely digital. Like they had no idea who their consumers are and what they want.
@@jediflip2515 That’s what they aimed for I believe. I think Xbox is more of a family friendly console for the wife and kids to get involved with where as everything else focuses on the true gamer. Shit even the Nintendo switch does it better than Xbox these days which is sad because the 360 was such a titan in the industry.
Thank you for this video. Your recap of the historic time up to the Xbox One was so on point and accurate, I almost teared up being reminded what a great time it was. Original Xbox and mostly 360 were so good, I as a life long PC Gamer fully switched to 360 in 2007 for a few years just because it had the best games. All the best games. I did not buy an Xbox One or any other Xbox since. 360 was a once in a lifetime experience. Today I'm a very happy PC gamer once again.
This presentation is so good it should be presented as a documentary "The Rise and Current Hubris of Xbox" on every streaming service. Well done!
People nowadays don’t seem to realize how utterly devastating that Xbox One presentation was. Xbox never truly recovered even to this day. That PS4 commercial on how to share your games was so brutal and such a gut punch to the Xbox brand.
You did skip over XBMC on the original XBox, that was the #1 reason to own one, you basically bought it and then had it installed before you even thought about a game or anything like that, or at least that's how it was in Australia. I think that's also a part of what drove their TV focus, they saw how popular that was and tried to monetise it, I mean it was basically the interface for X360.
Otherwise, completely agree.
Honestly the main reason I'm still on my box is my friends I met in the CoD 3/4 days and my library of games.
gaming just makes me sad now
Remember when having cable with over 500 channels? But nothing to watch? Streaming services have ALL these shows but still nothing to watch. Gamepass has all these games but still nothing to play.
For me at least. Their original IP’s are in shambles. Even some making a come back but I am still very weary of it. Xbox just doesn’t have any good exclusives anymore. Everything is on PC now. I sold my xbox. Maybe in the next few years, I will consider buying one again. If they ever will come out with one.
I really feel the launch of Halo 4 was the begininng of the end for xbox. Was it good? Sure it checked alot of the boxes, but it felt like the soul of Halo was gone and all of xbox (both hardware and software) were gone. Everything felt like it was made for the shareholders, not the players.
Metaphor: Refantazio opened to #37 on Xbox despite having exclusive marketing rights. Anyone who goes on about how Final Fantasy would sell far more if it was multiplatform is deluded about the viability of JRPG success on Xbox.
Not to mention the sales bump exclusive games get. Look at the sales figures for Octopath Traveller 1 on Switch vs 2 in all platforms despite reviewing better.
Bro r u a shareholder? Why r some gamers so obsessed with Sales ? 😆
@JonathanTacoman I am not a shareholder but I am a stakeholder in JRPGs and am invested in their success.
The infamous Xbox One presentation where they presented everything about the console except the games. They tried to make an "all in one" entertainment system that operated with Kinect and forgot that people just wanted a good VIDEO GAME console that played good VIDEO GAMES.
I bought OG XBOX for Morrowind and never regretted the purchase.
Imagine, a set of console exclusives that you NEEDED an XBOX to play. What a concept.
These long form videos are an absolute treat. Thank you man, you put words to a lot of my own thoughts and feelings.