Portugeezer
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Worst part of the Xbox reveal was this weirdo blowing up and finding out about him.
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Xbox One reveal 10 years ago today
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Worst part of the Xbox reveal was this weirdo blowing up and finding out about him.
Alan Wake
Member
Game Pass is a service you can choose to have or just ignore. It's something else than constraining the whole console experience through intrusive limiting DRM. Game Pass offers choice, just like any other streaming service out there. If I could not buy physical games for my Series X I would be much less positive about Game Pass. And yes, I know in which direction we're heading. It's all digital and Microsoft is obviously pushing for that. But Sony will embrace it too.
Alan Wake
Member
Same as me then. It looked OK actually. I've always preferred my consoles in white, so I was happy when the One S launched in white. Finally got the white One X too. The difference between that and the One/One S was surprisingly big.
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MALpractice311
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That reveal was fucking heartbreaking. It was so bad that it caused me to jump ship to Sony for the first time ever. I never had a PS1, 2, 3, P, Vita, whatever the fuck. But when I saw this reveal and then all the discussion about them wanting the console to be always online and their attempts to limit used games/trading games, I was like, "Well, I hate this timeline. I guess I'm getting a PS4."
DonJimbo
Member
Exactly they made the right decision with the One X and the One S
Don really made the Xbox Brand hurt much but Phil came at the right time to save the Brand from insignificance
Alan Wake
Member
Did you ever get an Xbox One after that?
Alan Wake
Member
They were bad. Indeed. Thing is, when Xbox owners keep waiting for the games we've been promised, or Switch owners wait for the next big Nintendo title, there are plenty of others games to play from other publishers. Wii U had barely no support whatsoever apart from Ubisoft, Sega and Warner. It had a decent launch lineup but already in 2013 the support dried up. Ubisoft even delayed the former Wii U exclusive Rayman Legends (amazing game btw) and launched it on Xbox and PlayStation too. When you play it, it's obvious it was made with the Gamepad in mind.
Woopah
Member
MS learnt all the wrong lessons from Kinect, and that E3 launch was a PR disaster
Switch has much more frequent first party releases and much much better third party support than Wii U, which is why it hasn't had any droughts since 2020.
Wii U had worse droughts than 3DS and GameCube, and the only really comparable period I can remember is the late life of the Wii.
Switch has much more frequent first party releases and much much better third party support than Wii U, which is why it hasn't had any droughts since 2020.
DEAD ORIGINAL
Member
Remember when people said the 8th generation console war was between Xbox and Nintendo and playstation was gonna die
MALpractice311
Member
Nope and I haven't bought a Series console either. Microsoft killing off games in development and butchering their own studios and focusing on services made it clear that making quality, exclusive games is not something they seem to be concerned with and exclusive games are why I buy consoles.
DragonNCM
Member
Man...that was the day when I changes my color to blue.....after OG Xbox & 360 era......& I saw that CLOWN talking shit about all the time internet connection & TV streaming.
A Most Virtuous Cat
Banned
It was a death warrant for Xbox; signed sealed and delivered.
Stare-Bear
Banned
Alan Wake
Member
I fully understand it. I just wonder how the split is between all of us who had a 360 and maybe were there from the very beginning. Who left permanently in 2013, who stayed onboard and who came back after a few years. Microsoft obviously must have stats on this internally.
Insane Metal
Member
Oh man, the memes.
Moriarty1889
Member
Ahh yes the good old days of Xbox One……..always online, TV TV TV TV, DRM, cloud powahhhh, DX12, Secret Sauce, people with no internet should keep their 360, Mattrick saying he didn’t even understand what it’s like to be on a submarine, Marc Whitten calling Xbox One‘s capabilities as ‘Rocket Science Level Stuff’ and so many other things. The Xbox One wasn’t a bad system by any means. It had some solid launch games like Ryse, Forza 5, Killer Instinct, Dead Rising 3 and more. The games were solid and plentiful unlike todays efforts by MS with the Series launch. I enjoyed my Xbox One along with my PS4. MS backtracking on their policies showed the shady side of them being caught and trying to amend their poor efforts.
Don’t Mattrick ruined the brand and was shoved out of the picture after his ridiculous comments in his interview with Geoff Keighley. Phil was appointed to come in and try to save the brand from that point. The early days of Xbox One were very rough indeed. They lost many of their base and never really recovered since then.
Don’t Mattrick ruined the brand and was shoved out of the picture after his ridiculous comments in his interview with Geoff Keighley. Phil was appointed to come in and try to save the brand from that point. The early days of Xbox One were very rough indeed. They lost many of their base and never really recovered since then.
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SirKicksalot
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It was aggressively American. Cable TV TV TV, UFC and handegg. I still don't know what fantasy football is (surely it's not Blood Bowl). And what did the console have to do with a Halo TV show?
CircusOfValues
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Insane Metal
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phant0m
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For the first 18 months of this gen I played my One X more than my brandy-new launch PS5 thanks to Game Pass.
diffusionx
Gold Member
Good post except the Xbox One was a bad system, it was horrible. I ranted about it the other day in another thread lol. Dark days for Xbox and they never really recovered the brand and product, although the One X was a really nice piece of hardware.
If at launch it was way better than Series that is a damning indictment on Series before it is an indication of the One's merits.
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Woah 2024! So some countries didn't experience any Xbox one at all these past 10 years!They charged $100 more than the PS4
So no surprises when Playstation came out on top. I had quite a few friends that jumped from PS2 > 360 then jumped back to PS4 and then got PS5s as a result of how they handled the Xbox One.
Bernoulli
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Pelta88
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When this blew up, I didn't know it was a character called Francis. Hilarious times.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
the reveal was stupid as hell but I still enjoyed the launch period. Forza, Dead Rising 3, and all the Kinect workout stuff were legitimately really great. It had a lot more stuff I was interested than PS4 did at its launch.
Alan Wake
Member
A bit harsh maybe? Xbox One wasn't horrible. It had a decent launch, and after that some good games every year and good third party support. It had a really good controller (I personally prefer it to the Series X/S controller).The UI was atrocious at the start but after a few updates it was OK. It offered backcompat, Game Pass came along and so on. Xbox One X was an amazing upgrade. It just wasn't close to the PS4 in terms of games, and at the end of the day that's what counts. PS4 was an amazing console, I think it's Sony's best.
Bridges
Member
Yeah it ended up being the right decision for me in the long run so I don't regret it. Having my catalog of songs carry over was huge, if I did go PS4 I would've been obligated to get an Xbox anyway when RB4 was announced.
Alan Wake
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He's a nice guy, easy to like. I think that gets him very far. I've defended him for years but at this point even I am pretty much done with his promises. I like my Series X and all, but the lack of exclusive quality games is so obvious it's baffling how anyone can say otherwise.I am giving up on asking hardcore Xbox fans to hold Spencer responsible, he could be MS CEO and people would then blame the board, he could purchase 51% of the shares himself and people would blame the government or something. How the Head of Game Studios and now the boss of all things Xbox is not to blame for either consoles launch lineup (it was his job getting Xbox One’s launch lineup ready) is beyond me….
ZoukGalaxy
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TV TV TV TV TV TV SPORT SPORT SPORT SPORT SPORT SPORT DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM DRM
This is how I remember it, I was SO excited after the Xbox 360 triumph and could have never imagined getting this cringe show and this shitty ugly huge and weak console that you could not even put vertically . I prefer to pretend it never happened for the sanity of my brain. This only show made me switch to the PS4 and I was a diehard Xbox 360 (and still a fan).
It was and it's still a gigantic DISASTER.
This is how I remember it, I was SO excited after the Xbox 360 triumph and could have never imagined getting this cringe show and this shitty ugly huge and weak console that you could not even put vertically . I prefer to pretend it never happened for the sanity of my brain. This only show made me switch to the PS4 and I was a diehard Xbox 360 (and still a fan).
It was and it's still a gigantic DISASTER.
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Trogdor1123
Gold Member
It was such a train wreck. People were expecting them to leverage the 360 to really move forward. They did not.
The 499 was just too much on top, then Sony did 399. Wowsers.
The 499 was just too much on top, then Sony did 399. Wowsers.
MarkMe2525
Gold Member
I remember this day clearly. I recently moved to New Orleans and cleared my day to watch the showcase. I sat in my apartment while MS kicked me in the gut.
Unknown?
Member
Can't forget that MS was part of NSA's prism program AND windows has the NSA key(despite them claiming it has nothing to do with NSA).
Alan Wake
Member
The only good thing about the Xbox One hardware from the start was that it was dead quiet. After a generation with a jet engine Xbox and a hairdryer PlayStation, that meant something.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Woops error on my part, meant 2014.
Impotaku
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X360 was & is still my very first microsoft console & i actually really liked it as it gave me a way to play the stuff that usually never came to nintendo platforms. Amazingly mine still works even now however the whole lets cater to pretty much only the usa and tv tv tv bullshit soured me on ever getting another one so i skipped pretty much every generation of xbox to the present day.
It was a dumpster fire of a presentation, it was like they chose everything i find unappealing and combined it into one machine. Fastest way to turn me off anything is with sport & tv
It was a dumpster fire of a presentation, it was like they chose everything i find unappealing and combined it into one machine. Fastest way to turn me off anything is with sport & tv
sachos
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It was insane what they tried to do. 100 usd more than the PS4 while the PS4 was 50%!!! more powerful (1.84 tflops vs 1.23 tflops) and had DDR5 memory with 2.57x!! the bandwith (176gb/s vs 68.3gb/s). The cherry on top was the DRM and used games fiasco. That PS4 E3 presentation and used games video were legendary.
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