It's funny that a console that was riddled with hardware issues and was only in the driver's seat for half of a generation caused Microsoft to become so unbelievably cocky that to this day, their Xbox brand has fallen into the fucking abyss and has showed no signs of coming back to even a semblance of what it was at the 360's height. Even all of the studios they bought like 8 or 9 years ago still cant deliver good exclusives. It's not even about trying to outdo Sony anymore, they're fighting to be respectable. How the hell do you save this shit?
They should make Elder Scrolls VI an Xbox exclusive. Should have done the same with Starfield.
>>736337971Go back in time and kill Don Mattrick
Am I misremembering or did Xbox invest way more in their gimmick peripheral (Kinect) than Sony (Move) did?
Don't hire jeets
>>736337971They had a long time to find promising studios and build some exclusive franchises. Sony did a shit job of that, but something is better than nothing. Brand loyalty only goes so far when there’s nothing to gain over the competition.
>>736338093They tried far harder to capture the casual audience to get some of that Wii money.Microsoft was all about Kinect and TV shit in the latter half of the 360's lifecycle, and they stopped prioritizing good games which is the biggest reason why the PS3 ended up coming back and handily beating the 360 in sales.This wound up poisoning the next gen, too, where Xbox went all in on the console as a media center with MANDATORY Kinect at launch whereas Sony knew people wanted a games machine.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWgUO-Rqcw
>>736337971Xbox could have unironically been an insane console if they stuck with the whole niche otaku thing. Literally the only reason I own a ps4 is because I can play m2 ports on it. Like I realize thats a very very small majority of people who use consoles, but the whole arcade thing was like a core differentiating identity to the 360 that made it not just a shitty halo box. The amount of indies and arcade games on there absolutely dwarfed their big name exclusives.
>>736337971shit posted xbox one into oblivion after the 360. still feels good brah
>>736337971360, for all it's objective faults with its dogshit hardware and online jewry, was pretty kino>MS moneyhatted a bunch of Japanese games early>Microshart first party actually had games that felt like you could look forward too>introduced lots of people to indie games through XBLA>UI and services felt futuristic; could instantly message anyone, party chat, purchase digital games, achievements, etcNow the series x doesn't have any games you can't play anywhere else and all the other consoles have basically the same online shit
>>736338427>Avatars>Kinect >Wifi adapter >Faceplates>Detachable hard drives>HD DVD drive>Custom soundtracks>Microsoft Points Xbox tried a lot of shit that never truly caught on with their audience
>>736338093Yes. It was always an option on some PS3 games, but very few even bothered with it and even less made their games Move only, none of which Sony promoted all that much. Microsoft went all out trying to garner the fake casual gamer audience by making Kinect-only games that they actively shilled like those dancing games during E3, including that Star Wars one.>>736338578If Microsoft catered to actual gamers more and didn't shun Japanese made games and try to screw their devs over, they'd be on top of Sony for sure. The problem is that after Peter Moore left the company fell into the trap of thinking gun n' ball gamers are a loyal customer base and after Halo 3, though they could coast on the casual gamer audience. That however, just screwed them in the long run since the casual audience just left because they don't care about games and the more loyal gamer audience had since left after being spat upon by MS.
>>736338093The only thing I really remember about Move is the free Move avatar they gave away on PlayStation Home
>>736338093>Sony (Move) did?Move was built on eyetoy from the PS2. Microsoft dumped shit loads into R&D for a few years to pump out kinect, Sony basically touched up Eye toy and told eye of judgment customers they just had to buy a couple of controllers and they can use a superior wii remote for time crisis and the house of the dead.
>play Crackdown>loading>Crashes mid load>loading into game>crashes mid loadIs this normal for Crackdown 1?
>>736339470The only problem I remember having with Crackdown was I couldn't find one fucking orb I was missing
>>736339470No.
>>736337971Ever since the Bad Update hack, I've been using my Xbox 360 to play OG Xbox and some Xbox 360 games, although it's just the ones that are not backwards compatible since I already have an Xbox OneI don't have space for OG Xbox console
