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- Remember When Halo Almost Wasn’t An Xbox Game: • Halo Almost Wasn't An ...
In this video, Kurt chronicles the journey of Microsoft’s daring foray into the gaming industry with the Xbox through its many missteps, to its crowning achievements. Starting all the way back in 1998 with the console’s conception, the Xbox was the brainchild of Seamus Blackley, and entered the gaming market competing head on with Sony’s astronomically successful PlayStation 2. While going toe-to-toe with the PS2 was a steep uphill battle, Microsoft still managed to place itself among its contemporaries as a worthy competitor, outselling Nintendo’s GameCube that generation.
For the Xbox 360, Microsoft came out swinging a whole year ahead of the PS3 and Wii, and while that head start was pivotal to the console’s success, the 360 still faced many challenges along the way--most notably the infamous Red Ring of Death dilemma. Still, by the end of its lifespan, the Xbox 360 was hugely successful, and set the bar high for what was to come with the Xbox One. Unlike the Xbox 360, the Xbox One was a major misstep for Microsoft, but one that ultimately led to a historical change of course that that has led the company to its current vision and values heading into this next generation with the Xbox Series X/S. With Xbox on the cusp of its fourth generation, it’s suffice to say that story is far from over.
I just got the series x after not having an xbox since the 360..I'm in love all over again
Yeh, it's weird, I bailed and jumped on PS4 / Pro after 360 and in hindsight, I think that was the right call given the caliber and quantity of titles from Sony and the ethical stance they took around the time of launch. But I jumped on the Series X due to the reversal of the companies consumer practices, I must say, discovering new content on Gamepass, and enjoying those load times and quick resume, not to mention that controller, I am in love with gaming again.
Samee
Same with me! And it‘s just great, even though next gen titles are missing atm :-)
When the Xbox One came out it felt like that episode of Hey Arnold where Arnold’s (360) hillbilly cousin Arnie (One) comes to visit.
Same. Love this thing.
Phil saved Xbox for sure. It's like he looked at Don and said "what the hell is wrong with you.."
2013 was a dark time. Glad Phil turned it around.
If Phil Spencer wasn’t chosen as head, Xbox would be dead by now.
Undeniable how he turned things around.
He literally saved the console. They should've had him take over from beginning
In a recent interview Phill said that right when Nadella took over Microsoft, Xbox was still without a lead head, right after Xbox One launch fiasco and Nadella asked if they should continue with the Xbox branch. Phill was the one who convinced Nadella to give Xbox another chance and took over the branch himself.
If you are an Xbox player today, you owe this to Phill Spencer
@@manlykscorpa I'm not sure he was in a position too.
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Prior to Xbox One, Don Mattrick was firmly established and. . this is odd to say. . rightfully so.
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It's hard to believe now but he was a rising star when he joined Microsoft. He joined in 2007 and oversaw the install base of the 360 shoot up dramatically (according to Wikipedia, it went from 10 million to 76 million).
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Many of us hardcore gamers scoff at it but the Kinect was actually very successful. And it was his brainchild. . or at least. . he had a hand in it.
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And in a way the latest trends have vindicated what Mattrick was trying to do.
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-Family game sharing
-digital loaning and sales of games
-Disc-less game play
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We scoffed at it back then. We raged that Microsoft was essentially blocking out the 2nd hand market. . but, I mean. Game Stop is DYING now. And many games are being bought digital these days. . even on consoles.
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It was only through the INTENSE backlash that Mattrick could've been unseated to allow Phil to take over.
@@Kimera92 If anything, you may be understating Nadella's role in all of this as well.
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Both he and Phil are responsible not just for the resurgence of Xbox but of Microsoft as well.
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There was a bit of, ah, stagnation under Balmer.
So good to have 4 generations of games together on Series X/S. 👍
s? that a emulation.. x with disc are directx modifed...
@@campkira they're emulated on both
would be great if all my og xbox titles were playable. unfortunately that is not the case. I tried Conan, Otogi, Mech Assault, Unreal II, Cold Fear and Soldier of Fortune - none it worked :(
Even ps2 games!
LOVE the original Xbox
Hard drive changed everything.
Xbox 360 EVERYTHING with Xbox live.
Thank you, Microsoft
And the shoulder triggers
yes the hard drive was so good !!
And wireless controllers
Is xbox live a good thing? I mean I would want online multiplayer to be free like on pc or phones
@@teneesh3376 one of the biggest reasons why i will never go back to console gaming. literally no reason why it isnt free on consoles other than people are willing to pay for it, because they cant open their own servers like on pc
I know everyone hates it, but that Godzilla 1998 was my childhood and I will always love it!
Same dude 🦖
Dude, same. I have such a weird place in my heart as a hardcore Godzilla fan for that movie, and also I can't dissociate it with its Taco Bell partnership, including that insane cupholder they had.
I’m a hardcore G-fan and I like that movie.
Dude fucking same 😂
Dude same
I used to have the OG Xbox, miss that thing
I still have mines lol
Me too, was a beauty especially multiplayer (xbox live) back in the day.
Me too
This is why I love xbox. When you look at what they did and needed to do! Ups and downs but they never stopped and NEVER gonna stop!
thqt why i had 4 xbox one and 2 x.. since i usd it for tv...
cux ur logo is an xbox stfu ps5 is better
@@kuro_100 their equally good consoles
@@kuro_100 Troll.
@@kuro_100 playstion fan boys can't even give arguments that are good about the ps5 sooo
Hearing the Xbox startup sound gave me chills
Funny, with the years the console's design went from X to box...
Xbox One and especially the Wii U are super underrated.
Yes they are. I have them both and they are great systems.
Lol dude tattooed a launch date on his arm? Imagine his arm if he did that with cyberpunk 2077.
Nah it's definitely a fake tattoo
A dude got a Lawbreakers tattoo on him and you saw how quick that game died
People complained about “being heard” with the Kinect having a mic but yet no one is saying anything about the ps controller having a mic now that can also “hear in” on the area it’s in just like the Kinect. Just find it weird
kinect was a camera too. and it was an always online console. ps has no always online camera. simple, huh? ;)
@@nattila7713 no shit but that’s not what I’m talking about and yet they do the PS camera is a thing, but I’m still only talking about the mic
@@cloutchaserslol9780 I meant that a simple mic, even if it would really record what you say all the time, noone cares (especially when it's made by sony) :/
microsoft cannot be trusted - that anyone knows. and despite their reputation they really tried their luck with that always-online spy-cam :(
@@nattila7713 any company can not be trusted and you’re phone is the biggest listening device you have so even if the consoles did listen in it’s not the only device doing it. And the consoles now most people have, have them online anyways
@UGK4Life 212 like that works, just like turning off the web camera on a laptop still doesn’t work unless you physically unplug it. Again you can’t trust any company
I hope people that are emotionally involved in console wars realize that there are no benefits to be had by participating in them, or praising one console and hating the other because history has shown time and time again that fierce competition by console manufacturers provides the gaming enthusiast with more choice, quality product and better price.
Check the many documentaries on the Genesis and the New and you'll see the amount if games and technology that came to be because of competition.
Aren't the people involved in those console wars part of the reason for the fierce competition that leads to more choice, quality, and price?
@@jbmazhar2000 No, they aren't. Sony and Microsoft don't look to Twitter and Reddit to see what their online detractors are saying when planning their next batch of upgrades or features.
The only thing these people accomplish is sowing more discord amongst gamers while they pretend the colored box they bought is perfect.
@@leonfrancis3418but those detractors also speak with their credit cards at kmart
@@jbmazhar2000 KMart? 😂😂😂
I remember being little and seeing the OG Xbox in a demo booth with stranger's wrath playing on it, holding the infamous DUKE in my tiny kid hands was unforgettable, it felt like a space station controller and since the console was full of green imagery I thought aliens made it, I think I played in that booth for like 2 hours before they ripped me away from it by force, now it feels so weird to play on series X with a controller so little.
I wonder how amazing things would of been if Phil was in charge Instead of Don for the Xbox one. Sigh 😔
I wonder as well. Although, maybe what's happening now is a good thing. If Don didn't screw everything up, we might not have GamePass or Microsoft wouldn't have bought so many studios because Microsoft would be doing pretty well. But because of the hardships, Microsoft really stepped up their game and now we have a powerful system with exclusive games eventually coming onto it and "free" with GamePass.
Even tho I love Phill and he is responsable for Nadella not closing down the Xbox branch back when the Xbox One launched, he was also behind most of the shitty decisions alongside Don, he said it himself.
They were trying something new and just didnt work out and missed their target audience by a lot.
Splinter cell needs to return
The og trilogy tho, not the fast paced later titles
I really enjoyed this video. Nice work!
I still have the original one. Now i'm gonna get the new one next year soon!
I miss the old days. OG Xbox was a blast, X360 too
Ya I fucking hate installing a game then there is a 30gb update. Miss just putting the cartridge/disc in and playing.
The Xbox 360 is in my top 2 game consoles ever. I in my opinion this next generation jump wasn't as great as the graphical gameplay leap it was from the PS2 (Which is in my top 2) to the 360...360 also had the best game catalog out of the xbox systems
@@tuffasgong someone who feels my pain. at least Series X is a little faster than One S. Kinda the same honestly. Hope it gets better as time goes on. 360 will always be the best imo.
Xbox One gets so much unnecessary hate. Truth be told, it's a great console.
Its cause of its launch mainly and lack of exclusives
It's lack of exclusives that interest me that killed it for me, and I didn't really like how the controller for the Xbox One felt. It's not an awful console, but if I wasn't a Nintendo fan and had to choose between Playstation and Xbox, I choose Playstation every generation
@@danmurphy980 yeah, you're definitely right. The launch and original VCR model wasn't great. The One S and X however, turned things back around.
@@UltimateTS64 PS controllers are awful! Literally the worst thing about owning a PS. This new controller is the only one that has caught my attention, even though they still don't understand what the shape of a trigger should be.
@@danielcrockett8398 I just don't like the Xbone controller's sticks, they just feel cheap to me for some reason, but the controller is fine to me other than that
I wonder what we'll be telling our grandkids in 60 years
They’ll be playing on their ps25 or Xbox series XC 123
@@arw2008 "But daaaaad. Thats only 500k and 924 fps!"
Back in our day we played games with controllers on the tv sitting on the couch. We weren't in them with our body as the controller and player.
Xbox series x to be delayed until April 2081.
The original Xbox actually felt like a beast. The last console I owned that I felt was incredibly powerful compared to competition. Games like Doom 3 and Half Life 2, developers made it know publicly would not run on the other consoles. Not to mention all the exclusives that were head and shoulders above the others.
Just picked up an OG xbox at the thriftstore for 20 bucks. Which is perfect as mine stopped working and i even replaced the capacitors and still nothing.
i watched that deal with the rock live; classic memory.
The first update to the 360 design was the S for slim. The final one was the E for elite. Also, my big reason for wanting the orig XBOX was Fable. That was the biggest game for me back then.
Great video!
Awesome vid!
That OG Xbox trademark startup and green/black color scheme was just badass as a kid. I hated how they drifted away from that with the 1st gen White/Refined 360.
Thanks for the short history lesson 👍
Hey, you're welcome!
360 was the best. midnight releases. Halo 3, Red Dead, Oblivion, MWF 1 and 2. Left 4 Dead. So many online memories.
2021 is gonna be the year for xbox
I started at the 360 only because they were the first to next gen. Sold my ps2 and all its games in 2006. I remember that day like it was yesterday.
Funny how far ahead Xbox was with Kinect in that today so many players use voice assistants to control their systems even PS has a built-in mic on the gamepad. Not to mention the tech that powers Face ID in the iPhone is essentially a miniature Kinect.
I'm a PC gamer segueing into consoles for the first time. This video is very informative and gave me an appreciation for the Xbox. Thank you 💕😊.
If you're a PC gamer, you have absolutely no use for an Xbox. If you want the full gaming experience, just get a Switch and a PS4 Pro/PS5 to accompany your PC
Yeah, just stay on PC if you want Xbox games. The only Xbox game that'll be missing on PC is Halo 5, and no one likes Halo 5 so that won't be much of an issue
Everybody can agree the Xbox 360 is the best xbox console ever
I agree with you
Nope. OG Xbox.
I love the Adam Sessler cameo
The Xbox One X is my favorite console of all time. I got SO MUCH value out of it. Games looked fantastic on it and it doubled as a 4K Blu-ray player. With game pass and my backlog I *still* have games I haven’t even started and I’ve got the next gen console now.
Damn that was a good watch.
Hey, thank you!
If only gaming was as fun as it was in the early 2000's... god I miss playing Halo 3 with my friends
14:15 Microsoft acquired Beam then renamed it to Mixer due to being unable to trademark the Beam name globally.
The reason they made you buy the DVD play back kit was because early on it made the xbox 40 cheaper because dolby digital was trying to screw everyone for licensing
Xbox is the future of gaming! Their business strategy is going to payoff, especially once Bethesda games take off. Ea access included with Gamepass is already phenomenal!
Raymond but made in China lol , just like all of AMD and Nvidia graphic cards 😂
Proud of the brand Xbox has become now.
Even I don cop a SeriesX this year, 2021 wouldn’t pass me by. Would love to experience my first Xbox in the best generation they’ve had yet.
A nice comprehensive jist of the xbox's history. Good work.
I'm mostly a Playstation man but I remember the og Xbox and all the fun I had with halo and other games
I'm something of a PlayStation fanboy despite starting on PS with the PS4, I got one four years ago, but I still have to respect Xbox's comeback once Phil Spencer made the scene. It's like Mark Cerny responding to PS3 with the PS4's way simpler PS4 architecture and saving game development on the PS4, not repeating the PS3's mistake
getting my series x soon ( when its actually in f'ing stock)
Xbox is back, it was the best during the 360 era but the One X is a great system for the future.
one x had two of them.. if you just used sdd i towuld be faster than xss.... since they both can run well...
just a shame by the time x come out.. most dev alredy don't bothe try to work on xbox... since if they are end of cycle.. and bug still a issue.. base ps4 is what all dev are using a benchmark. while og one.. become some thing you hope it would work...
I miss the days the where microsoft were one of the biggest if the the biggest juggernaut in gaming. Nowadays many people give xbox a lot of flack and they deserve it to some extent, however, I think the 360 days were some of the best times in gaming. Microsoft gave us a great platform with a revolutionary online infrastructure (xbox live) and masterpiece quality exclusives like Halo 3, Gears of War and others. I hope Microsoft can deliver that golden age back to us with the series x, things are definitely looking good as of now.
i agree ever since phil spencer took over i can see a massive mindset shift in the xbox division and he gave msft something they love, SaAS sub numbers with gamepass just like office365. they made a good portion of MSFTs revenue last qtr and they definitely want to get to 50million subs as thats a shit ton of yearly revenue for them so i see them pushing xbox like never before and when all the studios drop their games forget it, its gonna be huge. i feel like competition is back
Right now, it’s someone else’s golden age. We just got older and got nostalgic. I don’t think we can ever have it as good as it was back then
@@anchormanburgundy7980 and why not
Very nicely explained
Your favorite halo was either halo 2 or halo 3. It just depends on which console you had.
Me owning a PS5 but wanting to feel nostalgic for Xbox 👋🏽
Halo Infinite getting delayed has to be a big blow to the launch.
I own both the Series S and Series X, One X, XB1 and original Xbox 🎮
I was a Xbox fanboy until I got my 3rd RROD and Australian stores told me it was not covered under my warranty on any of the 360's. Since then I ditched Xbox just stayed with PC gaming and bought Playstation only. I really miss the Halo series though, nothing can properly replace that FPS.
I wish I could afford any of these
6:05 "Further Cannapulting" 7:01 "Set a President" lol
Woah, it's honestly pretty amazing how much they improved with the xbox 360, it was basically perfect for it's time.
Like they did so many new things correctly in one big leap forward without the gradual improvements you usually see before something is done right.
Well they did overhaul the console menus which were nowhere near as good as it ended up being later but close enough to perfect. But it was serviceable at the time considering there weren't really any other clear winners in that department.
Although it feels like it's overstated how popular xbox live arcade was. Indies as we know them today weren't really much of a thing before meatboy, braid or fez's effects had some time to reach the public's consciousness. I mean I were on that shiz early and it definitely felt rare for other people to share any interest in purchasing downloadable unique bite sized games instead of the mainstream games you were used to seeing in stores and ads.
To give Microsoft credit, they have always been leaders in backwards compatibility. I can't think of any other OS where you can run a program made 30 years ago (for DOS or Windows 1.0) on their most recent OS. It's a really good move to support the last 3 generations on the new Xbox consoles.
All people want to do is play their games, they don't want to worry about compatibility. Microsoft has the know-how to make that possible.
And I was there for all of it. 👍😎
Same lmao
Back then I expected XBOX 720 but we got the Xbox One.
I’ve had em all. Ok damn I’ve had every console ps1
Even Wii U 🙃
The Initiative also has Santa Monica studios ex-devs of the makers, God of War.
I wonder why Microsoft never went with "Xbox 720".
I know just the other day I was watching a movie called real steel and they had huge XBOX 720 billboards in the backround im not sure why
I wonder why they didn't go with Xbox/ Xbox 480 > Xbox 720 > Xbox 1080 > Xbox 1080 Ultra > Xbox 2160
Steel Battalion/Mech Assault anyone? I remember playing Xbox live back in the day and those games were amazing.
I was either 5 or 6 when the Xbox 360 first came out
"Quick resume"
Meanwhile, Nintendo also included said feature in the Game and Watch Super Mario Bros device, but didn't boast it, as a matter of fact, people who bought the dang thing had to discover it themselves.
Love my og xbox, and I still play it. But I hate the one fault of the controller. There's a common issue where the red cable would break after some stress. Not moving it too much. Just literally anything. Give it a few months, and the controller will have connection issues
The tide did not shift in 2014 that's when the gap grew.
Lol with anyone who peeped the guy introducing the kinect and the avatar body twisting
Next year will be the 20th Anniversary of XBOX console on November 2021. Here's the XBOX timeline between 2001 and 2020 from the original XBOX to XBOX Series X:
XBOX (November 15th, 2001)
Xbox 360 (November 22nd, 2005)
Xbox 360 S (June 18th, 2010)
Xbox 360 E (June 10th, 2013)
Xbox One (November 22nd, 2013)
XBOX Series X and Series S (November 10th, 2020)
These are the Xbox consoles released dates from the US. XBOX Series X and S released worldwide last month on November 10th.
Halo went from being a respected and loved franchise to being Halo 4, how did they let this happen?
Halo is a goofy franchise. Fun to play, but H1 had a repetitive second half, 2 ended on a cliffhanger, 3 was sound, as were Reach and ODST, H4 had derivative multi-player and a decent story (Cortana good, Didact half-baked), and H5 had great multi-player and a campaign seriously lacking context (Cortana good, Locke bland).
I'm betting Infinite will be conservatively designed and pretty good, with no daring attempts that made parts of H4 and H5 amazing and other parts rather bad. Hopefully the hype doesn't paralyze 343i.
Noticed a mistake. It said Xbox 360 introduced gamer tags?? Gamertags started 3 years earlier with Xbox live. That was how you identified yourself on the service. I think you really underestimated the impact Xbox live had on the online ecosystem. Way off on that. Xbox 360 just made a lot of improvements to what was already there.
The narrator speaking throughout the video, isn’t he from Gameranx?
As the narrator, I can say that it is not.
Kurt Indovina Ayyy. My bad bro, you sound just like Falcon from Gameranx.
Yeah he is
@@KurtIndovina bro imma subscribe to ur channel
@@Dodger_fan42 hey! I deeply appreciate that. Thank you for taking the time to do that, sincerely
For the controller name call it the Cadillac of controllers cuz of the size
I love Xbox! ☺️
Bullshit box
@@g8salvador31 I ain’t bullshiting, even though PlayStation got me started I’ll love Xbox till the day I die
Got hooked on xbox not only because of Halo obviously, but once they got the GTA games it was a sell for me
Best shooter in town was on it, then best open world series 🔥
Also Conker , Republic commando and Nonja Gaiden
gta4 i get it for ps3 since it run better but the other i play it on 360...
@@campkira yea I remember that, and now they’re saying SeriesX run that same game in 4k and auto HDR
Technology is crazy lol
I still use the Xbox 360 original’ as my main console
The xbox one was basically xbox 360 2.0(no red ring built to last) and I think the one sold more than what Google is showing
Xbox was fantastic then Xbox 360 was a game changer. I held on until 2017 before I was forced to upgrade to the one s which is a great system also, but did didn't bring anything new to the table. As of 2019 I'm a PC gamer again and my Xbox one hasn't been turned on for at least a year
I love this type of videos !!!
Kinda crazy, in the 360 era seemed like everyone and their momma had one. Now most people I know meme Xbox.
the original xbox is still my favourite game console of all time
I found the first xbox outside my house ain't that crazy
I ended up getting an xbox because it got shipped to the wrong house and I kept it ever since lol
@@ryanjpegg nice
@@ryanjpegg bruh 😂
@@ryanjpegg series x?
Anyone know when we can actually buy a series x???
Please try pronouncing “precedent” instead of “president” haha...great vid tho 👍
Thank-you. His pronunciation was quite irritating.
Xbox Live and Halo 2 pushed broadband internet into millions of homes.
I've enjoyed the underrated games from original Xbox and 360. Sadly with Xboned I said hell no and for the series x well I'm gonna wait and see once halo infinite is good as halo 3
I'll say it here.... Something I almost don't mention anymore not in any way ashamed of it just no one really mentions High School anymore seeing as I'm 31 now.
But I Dropped Out Of High School, Sept. 20 2005 Because I got addicted to Halo 2 on Xbox Live. Ya. It's all I ever wanted to do and did for what seems like forever.
I never went back to school, but self educated on many things. I was lucky enough to be birthed with enough Intelligence that by 23 or so I gained a real interest and bit of guilt in not knowing things I should know, which include how to actually form a sentence, with Punctuation which then leads to forming a Paragraph.
But that's just an example of things I taught myself to make up for the lack of Education, in areas of my life where an issue kept arising. But I will Boldly Claim that I Would Do It All Again if I could.
I could die at any fucking point... With this Virus going around... You better belief I would die happy knowing the things I did and didn't do in life were for the most part 100% my own... I'd die with a sense of freedom.
All in all... Do what You Love, and Love what you do. Me today, I work and I still Love Halo and I'm still Good at it and I actually like every single game made so it's a series I still run all the way up to Halo 5.
I saw a ps5 ad on this vid nice
My xbox original died last month and I’m very sad.
Going to fix it?
I’m here because I wasn’t able to get the ps5
Same here dude don’t think that most people will get a console until next year
@@firestorm7977 i even sell my ps4 games and one of my controller so I can just get the ps5 but in the end all I see was blood and pressing the refresh button
Why not a series X ?
@@robzsarmy5471 nah I’m loyal to the Asian guys
I just want to play Spider-Man
You can't get the series x either, they are sold out too so we are all in the same boat.
As with this new gen backwards compat should just be a given ,obviously you can play old games on an even more powerful console ,It shouldn't be 70% of your sales pitch bragging that you can play the games you already completed ..but some might look a bit smarter..
The, then, exclusive games that made me choose Xbox over PlayStation were Splinter Cell and Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic. For The Xbox 360 it was Mass effect. After the ring of dead though, I switched to PlayStation, and I haven't regret my decision yet. By far the better console with better exclusive games
Better "single player " exclusives
whats the song at 2:05 ?
Your mom
Kurt MVP
No you are
Nice to see Jesse Pinkman in an Xbox ad 👍
You forgot the Xbox 360s and xbox 360 slim
I’m getting Xbox series x for Christmas
Im here baby xbox 4life