The Man that Destroyed Xbox

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Over 10 years since Don Mattrick left Xbox, the impact of his influence and terrible decisions can still be felt even now.
After taking the reins of Xbox in 2007, Mattrick lead the brand to try and appeal to casual gamers in order to compete with the Wii. And later the disastrous reveal of the always online/Kinect bundled Xbox One meant he left Xbox before the console even launched.
With their rivals Sony taking the lead in the console race, Xbox has been playing catch up ever since. But the recent news of poor console sales and studio closures show just how much Xbox is still struggling.
*Links*
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www.reuters.com/article/idUST...
www.dualshockers.com/e3-2013-...
www.polygon.com/2013/7/1/4483...
www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/new-...
www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24...
www.thegamer.com/xbox-one-rev...
www.forbes.com/sites/paultass...
kotaku.com/xbox-series-x-ps5-...
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*Xbox Press Conferences*
2006 press conference: • E3 2006 - Complete Mic...
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2009 press conference: • Microsoft E3 2009 Pres...
2010 press conference: • Xbox E3 2010 Press Con...
2011 press conference: • E3 2011 GameSpot Stage...
Xbox One reveal highlights: • Xbox One Reveal 2013 H...
*Videos*
IGN podcast Xbox interview: • Former Xbox Boss Share...
Xbox Avatars: • [E3 2008] Xbox 360 Ava...
PS4 price: • Sony Reveals PlayStati...
PS4 used games: • Official PlayStation U...
Xbox One launch: • Xbox One Launch: It's ...
Xbox Power On Episode 4: • Power On: The Story of...
Xbox Power On Episode 6: • Power On: The Story of...
Star Wars Kinect review: • Kinect: Star Wars - Vi...
Fable: The Journey review: • Fable: The Journey Vid...
Steel battalion review: • GameSpot Reviews - Ste...
Sonic Free Riders review: • Sonic Free Riders Revi...
Don Mattrick Interview dumb idiot stupid Xbox 360 comment: • IGN News - Microsoft's...
Don Mattrick resigns from Xbox (Yay): • IGN News - Microsoft's...
Redfall review: • Redfall Review
Phil Spencer interview: • Phil Spencer Interview...

[@codezero7981]

this guy single handedly started the Xbox decline.

[@Developer-bb2sw]

Xbox trumps Playstation on every aspect, but console sales.

[@vsuman66]

​@@Developer-bb2swwhat about the most important thing about a console... the games 😂🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Developer-bb2sw]

​@@vsuman66, what games? Sony has no games in 2024. Sony has never released a true next gen game on PS5. Helldivers 2 lost 94% of its player base. It's a flop.

[@vsuman66]

@@Developer-bb2sw and what has Xbox developed since Series S/X was incarnated? 7 years to develop a 5 hour long movie with no gameplay 🤦🏽‍♂️ All Xbox does is buy talented developers and turn them into trash which lose their talented staff and end up either producing garbage failed games or end up closing down. Rare, Tango to name a couple 😢

[@Developer-bb2sw]

​@@vsuman66, Miles Morales is a 4 hour long game, What are you talking about? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJe4eKKpitBkoKM The other games artificially lengthen their gameplay by having players complete the same repetitive quests over and over. Sony has no good games. Only woke BS.

[@kevink7529]

Don made Xbox from a gaming console to a streaming box. + Constant online and the icing on the cake when he said "we have a product for those who don't want to use Xbox one it's called Xbox 360". What an utter disaster.

[@onwardsandupwards547]

The 360 was the best console of that generation imo. Peter Moore built the brand up and Don knocked it down

[@parker73724]

I personally think a lot of the home media center stuff was a great idea. I loved the idea of being able to hook up a cable box or something to my xbox and use it while still talking to friends in parties (and also saving an HDMI port on my tv). I also thought being able to snap media to the side of the screen such as music or tv was great. There's nothing wrong with having additional ways to use your console. Imo the problem was the DRM and always online, not the streaming.

[@baked7423]

i guess they thought the 360 would run along side the one tho everyone was ready to move on sadly

[@winlover37]

@@parker73724 I half agree with what you're saying here. I argue that the games should have come first, everything else would have fallen into place. The TVTVTV kerfuffle was just another chapter in Xbox's quest to expand their audience towards more casual people/gamers while focusing less and less on a strong game library and the core gamers that helped build Xbox as a brand. It started with the Kinect, and the blowback at the Xbox One had been quietly simmering up to it.

[@chrisgonzalez5883]

You only get one chance to make a good impression

[@kolkoki]

As always, suits will always ruin products because they themselves are not consumers.

[@jollygoodfellow3957]

The suits have the money to deal with whatever BS they put into their own products, if they even use them.

[@amzingblinx2570]

It's honestly pretty incredible that literally one dude managed to destroy all the credibility that Xbox built up with the Original Xbox and Xbox 360 in the past 12 years and left a bad taste for the Xbox brand that has still yet to recover from fully even today in only one Hour and a Half showcase and a few interviews

[@christopher9727]

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[@chrgeorgeson]

Honestly ..... I think this pain was coming either way. It really is the lack of great first party hits that is the problem.

[@louisn1368]

@@chrgeorgesonhey what’s a first party hit?

[@chrgeorgeson]

@@louisn1368 exactly

[@Maybe_Saber]

@@chrgeorgeson They had first party hits the problem is Don Matrick wanted to shift the brands ideology away from games and to a general media box capable of doing a bit of everything and so all the great first party hits we used to get became less frequent and got worse.

[@michaelmarlow6610]

The Xbox One launch is up there with the absolute worst business decisions ever made. No one has lost a tech war so quickly as they did and it was literally hand wrapped, on a silver platter with roses and wine.

[@MrVariant]

Xbox series s was a nice launch, especially after the awful digital xbone. Can't believe people paid more for a ps5 than a pc before it restocked years later. With portable pc hybrids, both series are obsolete.

[@sangan3202]

​​@@MrVariantthis current gen is fucking awful i feel sorry for anyone that wasted money on those consoles expecting big libraries

[@MrVariant]

@sangan3202 it's not. People are well behind if still saying gaming is dead (buggy spiderman 2 and bastardized ff7 rebirth that made me celebrate goofy crisis core, with mario unlimited until spring 2024 was pretty bad, though wonder was a breath of fresh air). If uninitiated, a ton of console games just went on sale, and next week there's gonna be rocket knight re-sparked that was nice enough to do an intro sale everywhere. I also enjoyed MLB the show 24 on game pass, and college football 25 should be fun if they do better than madden. Tomba, astrobot, gori, and shadow of the ninja reborn are a few more fun upcoming games too. Then of course pc handhelds/hybrids for free demos not on console (ps plus premium was bs but at least they're gonna add vr2 games outside of demos, and the pc adapter may be something for those who want to use PC albeit limited, as meta quest has so much software despite needing accessories). Definitely something for everyone, though you can't encourage predatory purchases like those $100 games with all the crazy season add-ons, or multiversus doing bs for extra payment, ban iron giant from unranked or censoring velma's police call. I could go on about more, but gaming made a good turnaround. There's still some bad stuff like the legend of heroes trails through daybreak I mocked, but I did have fun with the misty battlefield (physical includes cool art and sound) and wargroove 2. Sales do help also, as I could tolerate dragon quest infinity strash's limitations as I do like the battles and playing as multiple characters.

[@dragoe7441]

Nothing will ever beat segas (sega of japans) complete retardation in 1995 with the saturn

[@MrVariant]

@dragoe7441 what did they do? I liked the triple pack with virtua cop, virtual fighter 2 and Daytona USA. Do admit sonic R was bad outside the music lol terrible controls outside tales but a fan remastered it.

[@crsmntmr392]

"without halo were not here" so how xbox treating halo now?

[@JohnDoe11VII]

Basically the same now as Mech Assault, Gears of War, Fable, Perfect Dark, Viva Pinata, Banjo-Kazooie... but Paramount is licensed to make a show with the same name.

[@mro9466]

Project Gotham Racing 😭

[@anusmcgee4150]

@@JohnDoe11VIIthe problem is that people KEEP BUYING HALO INFINITE MICRO TRANSACTIONS

[@WWE2KUNIVERSEELITE]

Halo shouldnt have went free to play

[@magsec5]

@@mro9466meh, forza took its place

[@fineva8291]

You can only blame Don for so long. Phil had a decade to really make Xbox competitive. Sony was able to rebound from the early PS3 blunder. Nintendo went from their worst selling (Wii U) to their best selling console (switch) in one generation. I have a series X only for back compatibility this generation.

[@bellissimo4520]

It's a shame, really. I used to have an X1X, but currently only have a PS5. The Series X is a pretty amazing system, but to this day, nothing really gave me an excuse to buy one. It's mind-boggling when you think how much money and resources this company has available.

[@TheScrubmuffin69]

​@bellissimo4520 why get rid of it lmao that's just dumb. I have both and my pc. And then all my retro consoles. But my series x I use to play backwards compatible games on

[@bellissimo4520]

@@TheScrubmuffin69 I got rid of the X1X because it won't play new games that require the Series S/X hardware. Sure I could have kept it, but I hadn't used it in ages due to the lack of new game releases that I cared for. I don't like dust collectors. It's fine if you like to have a whole collection of consoles, but not everybody does.

[@Level_Eleven]

With the way Sony has been lately, I think I’ll be skipping both Xbox and PlayStation when their next generations start. It’s gonna be PC and Nintendo only for me!

[@aiodensghost8645]

To be honest, I've not owned an Xbox since the Xbox One. And I started with a 360 and a PS2.

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

Don’t be sheep people. This man started the downfall. But to continue falling 10 years after means that the people in charge have been screwing up constantly. And seeing what happened to Tango, THEY HAVE BEEN SCREWING UP!

[@KingAgniKai]

Yea, Phil Spencer has destroyed Xbox

[@Dairunt1]

@@KingAgniKai I understand Phil has a line of investors and upper management he must adhere to. But being a leader means sticking to your values and protect the brand you've been assigned to. Him kneeling to investors and firing the people who make your platform better makes it clear that he talks big words but his real job is to save face rather than lead Xbox into being a better platform. If his decisions were wrong he must either do a public statement and make a plan to make it better or to quit, but firing more studios than games you make per year is the coward's way out.

[@GooseDaPlaymaker]

This guy gets it...👍

[@MrVariant]

Yeah they should just commit to pc rather than make useless upgrades like series s carbon black and that goofy digital xbone. The sweepstakes to customize systems are dumb too when they could sell console skins, and they have the least physicals, which undermine the series x. Glad there's game pass for pc but I hope they transfer more games as it's ridiculous how I got spyro digitally for Xbox and it won't count my purchase for pc unlike game pass games I bought like jojo.

[@GooseDaPlaymaker]

@@MrVariant That is the ONLY reason I have my Series X, and will NOT get a Series X refresh. I have a gaggle of backwards compatible games on Xbox and 360 that I wish I could play on my PC or GamePass, but I can't. Plus I have old Xbox One games on disc that are not reproduced anywhere else in life (Forza Horizon 2 Xbox One version and Forza Motorsport 5 are 2 examples that come to mind), and if you make a discless console (and fired your disc distribution portion of your company), you pretty much are saying that if I get rid of my Series X, you're not playing some Xbox One games ever again. Exciting times.

[@ozzy6994]

That idiot destroyed the brand over 10 years ago and Xbox still is doing idiotic things at the moment. Sucks that the 360 was their last great console even after that whole RROD fiasco

[@TheSupersmash97]

What’s not idiotic is that Xbox added backwards compatibility with physical support

[@soralifestory]

While yes Xbox has made bad decisions, the damage in 2013 is still the most major cause, if not for that most of the recent xbox stuff would be nothing more than missteps

[@dusermiginte4647]

Hahaha that sound like poony salt to me...

[@familyandfriends3519]

​@@soralifestorythe forced online setup on Xbox one is reason I never will buy a Xbox one and series whatever

[@soralifestory]

@@familyandfriends3519 all the consoles are like that though, besides the switch i believe, they were just too ahead of their time. But its everywhere now, even setting a PC up with windows needs some level of online connectivity. That was just a small ding in the grand scheme but at the time was huge so makes sense man

[@TheRowdyTJ]

It’s honestly sad that all it took was one man, a 2 hour press conference, and some interviews to cause a brand to look bad, even 10 years later.

[@gregmitchell5138]

To be "fair"...It wasn't just the man / press conference. It was the decisions made (assumedly by a good sized board of directors??) to bundle the Kinect, set the price so high, have it running (and watching you!) 24/7... But yeah. Starting to think the man was a Sony plant lol Nicely played, SCE.

[@johnpajestka5022]

I was a solid 360 player for that entire generation. Remember watching that conference. I went from being excited about the Xbox one to knowing I was 100% buying a PS4 by the end of it.

[@Thor-Orion]

Same. I loved my OG Xbox and 360. Great games. I loved Stranger’s Wrath for 360, a real return to greatness for Oddworld.

[@pspcow]

If I feel like a loser, I just remember Don Mattrick

[@bladimiribb]

Oh no he’s a winner, man made millions at Xbox, the real losers are Xbox’s board that made him president

[@mikhailryzhov9419]

He got away with crazy money and probably felt no remorse, so the real losers here are the gamers.

[@brianestrada1993]

Xbox One showcase was the Dystopian future that Xbox is still striving for.

[@SIPEROTH]

Exactly. That is why they want everybody on Game Pass instead of buying games. People don't realise that Microsoft tactic was always the same.

[@familyandfriends3519]

Yep force online setup is one of reasons I will never buy a Xbox one and series x

[@jeanrushmer8192]

I feel the Xbox one showcase is just current day Xbox

[@mikew1080]

Xbox fans need to quit shifting blame. Phil has had over a decade to right the path and continually fucks the brand over. Why does everyone still pretend like he isn't THE problem that Xbox needs to address?

[@greentray1231]

Totally agree with you, Phil is a weak link for Xbox and has been since he began taking over.

[@TakToJestYT]

Exactly. Don Mattrick at least pushed GAMES.

[@MrSpiritstealer]

I am with you.

[@darkuit585]

Phil is another reminder that suits do not and will never care about giving quality to the end costumer, no matter how "chill" and "relatable" they try to present themselves as.

[@mikew1080]

@@darkuit585 still blows my mind that people ever fell for it

[@safebox36]

As much as I don't like Xbox both as a company and a console, we kinda need them to stay in the console market. Otherwise that just gives Sony the top spot with no competition, because Nintendo have said since the says of the Wii that they see themselves as a companion console not a competitor.

[@marcoalves9029]

This I've been wanting them to recover for quite a while now to force Sony to try harder to make good games more often (like in the PS3 era), but after seeing what they did to Tango and all of those studios lately, it's hard to get your hopes up If they do end up leaving the hardware industry I hope someone else joins in their place at least

[@ToxicDarkLord]

@@marcoalves9029 Either that or more likely Nintendo will become more of a competitor as they will get more people buying their product especially with Switch 2 coming out soon. I still see Playstation/Sony staying number 1 cause even though they have not released much exclusive games with the PS5 generation (Most Likely due to how long it takes to create games now) you know that Sony is gonna drop a bunch of exclusive titles to help sell PS5 pro version along with GTA 6 considering the vast majority of the market share is dominated by Sony. Overall I dont really see Nintendo ever becoming Number 1 in a very long time and if they do then it will be because Sony got complacement or pulled a Microsoft but no doubt when Nintendo closes that gap it will absolutely push Sony and lit a fire in them to cause them to take the generations more seriously.

[@safebox36]

@@ToxicDarkLord depends how you define "number 1", I suppose Xbox makes the most money from games in this genetation. PlayStation has the higher reviewed games in this generation. Switch has the most console sales of this generation (and 3rd in history).

[@ToxicDarkLord]

@@safebox36 I just think it is a combination of all three that places PlayStation at N1 as the excel pretty well in all departments that makes them a robust platform cause of their large consumer base, games, IPS, first party studios which is why I tend to put them at N1. Also I do criticize them for not releasing more exclusive games for PS5 but considering how long it takes to make triple AAA quality games is now 5+ to make in development so I reckon with the PS5 pro coming out soon you will see more exclusive games get released to boost the pro sales. Nintendo I used to place third with the Nintendo Wii because I always felt it was niche platform and they had a lack of third party games on their and due to the WiiU being a bomb it really set them back a long time until the Switch came out and since the switch they have rebuilt their reputation and are releasing lots of exclusive games and are now importing third party games and I see the switch 2 continuing this trend and momentum. Overall I do see the top two being Sony and Nintendo and Microsoft being a distant third now.

[@RogueDragon05]

Time for SEGA to make a comeback

[@agonefire]

Halo 4 needed another year of development and should have been a launch title for the Xbone

[@irshadtyo]

343 asked Xbox if they could delay H4 and launch it on Xbone, but Xbox said no. That’s why we got MCC, so it worked out in the end 😬

[@redalien8499]

This guy not only almost kill the XOne, produce the low sales on the Series S/X, and, in someway kill the xbox brand, but more important, if someday console gaming dies, is gonna be his fault.

[@SIPEROTH]

lol. No.

[@doctorsilva1345]

Nope PS3 had a terrible start and they turned things around with way less wealth than Microsoft. Xbox leadership just doesn't know that to do and are just throwing money at the problem and hope it will fix it.

[@drconflict629]

That made zero fucking sense. Also, at this point good riddance. Consoles are irrelevant.

[@laujack24]

console gaming is on the way out any ways, microsoft saw the writing on the wall and become a game pass/3rd party company nowadays. pc and mobile gaming is where everything will be in the future, sony just late to the party. even they catch on and start piling their exclusive to pc. ps5 has no fucking games, if u were to tell me this 5 years ago I will laugh at ur face saying thats not going to happens. and look where we are, its 4 years into ps5 cycle no one fucking game was design from the ground up for the ps5 let alone exclusive that can sell the ps5. face it console days r numbered, who in their right mind would buy a ps6 3 years from now. lol

[@xXSwaghetti.YoloneseXx-uf2bb]

If they had released the One X and One S from the get go and sold an SKU of both without the Kinect and also DID NOT even mention the reselling/sharing of disc/always online games they would have completely owned the generation. But ofcourse Microsoft and Xbox can't fucking do anything right the first time around.

[@NovaruptaVS]

One X was impossible in 2013.

[@xXSwaghetti.YoloneseXx-uf2bb]

@@NovaruptaVS Why the hell not

[@ytmld]

it’d have been possible, except in 2013 ppl would have had to pay double for upgrades they could have cheaper in 2016

[@NovaruptaVS]

@@ytmld Xbox One X's GPU is built on the TSMC 16nm process which became available in 2014 and the GPU itself uses AMD's GCN 4.0 architecture which released in 2016. That's why it was impossible in 2013.

[@familyandfriends3519]

And not forced online setup

[@vipertt100]

Don had it right...with direction xbox is heading and the mess they have created I have been using my xbox 360 more and more. Thanks Don

[@joeyxl3456]

lol

[@Slinger184Paintball]

Had it right?! The heck are yo-…. Oh, I see what you mean now lol 😂 I’ve been playing my 360 a lot more lately to lol 😆

[@abdelali9279]

8:47 from the creators of "$299", now comes "$399" I guess Microsoft learnt so well from Sega's playbook they even went off the same way as them.

[@siloPIRATE]

The sequel to $299 Should have done it exactly the same. Just walk on stage, say $399 and leave

[@aes1373]

Xbox had a lot of chances to turn things around, but I think Mattrick really derailed them. For all of Spencers' short comings he was right, Xbox lost the worst generation. Even if they came out swinging with good exclusives, Sony still would've been ahead with their exclusives. Mattrick pretty much guaranteed Xbox's 2nd place to PS

[@akiriki97]

If nothing else, the real villain has always been the name of the company and that's the Microsoft brand :/

[@aaron1182]

My digital library that i built up on the 360 not being carried over to Xbone (at the time) was what killed off Xbox/Consoles for me. I know they have fixed it now with the new gen, but it came too late. The real winner in all this is Steam IMHO

[@rokmare]

Trust needs to be build after a betrayal the xbox one was a betrayal of xbox gamers trust under Don and Phil was supposed to rebuild that trust in xbox but with series x having no great exclusives and everything going third party especially closing studios at the time where xbox needs these games the trust isn't there

[@MrSpiritstealer]

@@aaron1182even then with compatibility, it’s limited, even though they could do compatibility with every single game if they truly wanted to. What I hate is the older digital games have to be saved on the cloud and not locally on the console, that should be optional.

[@bloomorte]

Xbox 360 was incredible before Kinect, if they kept investing in good IPs it could have paid off. Three Gears of War games in the same generation, two numbered Forza games and Forza Horizon, XBLA...It even had some great JRPGs, Eternal Sonata is beautiful. I don't demonize Kinect because it was appealing to casuals, but it seems like everything started to fall apart from there.

[@JohnDoe11VII]

4 Gears of War games on 360. Eternal Sonata was pretty bad, but Blue Dragon and Star Ocean 4 were worse, Lost Odyssey is significantly better. 360 also had huge LAN support for basically every game until near the end. Games like Dead Island and Dead Space 3 don't have LAN. Music player functionality while playing games and it paused for game cutscenes. Media Center functions. VGA cable. First time a console had access to game demos via internet, and many games had demos. XBLA games having mandatory trials/demo. Games were restricted to 10MB for a game update. Games didn't need to be installed until late GTA5, Far Cry 4 years unlike PS3 games often needing an install. Limited backwards compatibility. Biggest faults of the 360 were proprietary HDDs and memory cards, early game cases digging a ring into discs, one of the worst/sloppy D-pads, the loud disc drive at full speed, the failing consoles for 4ish years until the S model appeared. Big failings: HD-DVD, making paid themes worthless after console UI updates (Blades, then Xbox Avatars, then Metro). XNA games not working after updates. Wireless microphone, Nickel batteries, Kinect, Wireless wired steering wheel needing batteries, early models didn't have HDMI, and were restricted to composite, component, VGA.

[@ignaciogodoy7095]

@@JohnDoe11VIIwell xbox 360 had at least 4 console model, but you are right that the first model was rca only and the cooling problem

[@ShadowOfNexxus]

The best PS4 Sales man Sony ever hired

[@0xKazuto]

Dude was such a chad back when he give everyone in the theatre a free XBOX 360 Slim. But ever since XBOX One everything goes down hill. The console, the orientation of the product itself that's not all about gaming, the interview fiasco...

[@TakToJestYT]

Shout out to Don Mattrick he actually pushed GAMES.

[@safebox36]

re: Nintendo Switch It's worth noting that the console does have Hulu, KZbin, and Crunchyroll; the latter two are at least used pretty frequently by gamers. So while it's not the primary reason people buy the Switch, the console does make up a sizeable portion of both services' audiences since neither require the subscription services of the Xbox or PlayStation to use.

[@thatguynobodywants3716]

Since 2018 Nintendo made the online services a suscription service that it's mandatory to play online

[@safebox36]

@@thatguynobodywants3716 to play online, yes But xbox and playstation require an online subscription to use the streaning services as well, while switch currently does not

[@JohnDoe11VII]

@@thatguynobodywants3716 Things have changed a lot over the years on what your could(n't) do without Xbox Live Gold. Xbox made you pay for gold to get Netflix access on console. That changed after many years. Now Xbox without gold/subscription let's you play multiplayer if the game is free (fortnite).

[@sirblew]

It's just not important these days when you have the likes of Amazon Firestick, Google TV, and smart TVs.

[@jarektrathen8801]

This is the reason why it is unethical to hire executives with loyalty to other companies as your front-runner. They are literally the worst kind of people.

[@xXSwaghetti.YoloneseXx-uf2bb]

On rewatch I just want to say this: The kinect was groundbreaking and ahead of it's time. The Kinect 2 is an even better kit. BUT hardcore gamers don't care. So you need a solid product.

[@claudioramirez84]

At the time I tried to imagine how Kinect could be integrated in games that are not designed arround it, and nothing came to mind other than voice commands, which is almost as good as nothing. Even if the accuracy and responst time were perfect, the best you are going to get is a copy of wii sports.

[@elvinfunk69]

You mean the Eye toy was ahead of it's time lol

[@xXSwaghetti.YoloneseXx-uf2bb]

@@elvinfunk69 they both were

[@xXSwaghetti.YoloneseXx-uf2bb]

@elvinfunk69 head tracking, eye tracking, heartbeat sensor etc. Think bigger

[@Ozzianman]

2:29 This guy has clearly not tried CoD on the Wii, it nailed FPS controlls on the Wii remote. Another pretty good one is Red Steel 2. Would also say the Metroid Prime trilogy is good. This is to say, the Wii was a very valuable experiment by Nintendo. While Nintendo has previously experimented with Gyro controls, I think the Wii made them embrace gyro on their future consoles in games where it would be useful.

[@ChicagoBulls1984]

Not to mention RE4 wii edition

[@Goji505]

Unfortunately Nintendo cut costs on the Wii Remote and didn't initially include a gyroscope, the Infrared Camera was criminally underused too.

[@Loanshark753]

I really like PlayStation Move as well and I think the removal of the light bar from the DualSense Controller was a mistake, but it is understandable since Playstation VR2 uses inside out tracking rather than PlayStation move camera tracking.

[@NC-cf7kl]

Its so sad to me that the Xbox and the 360 were two of the best consoles ever made, and the xbox one and series x are possibly the most boring. Ive had an xbone and series x for the last 9 years respectively and the only games I can truly say are timeless classics that can be replayed countless times, is everything in the master chief collection (except halo 4) and those games came out way before the xbox one. Sony and Nintendo have multiple franchises that are on that level. I do believe Don and whoever else thought his shit was a good idea killed the console, but microsoft has been failing for 10 years to bring it back. Im not saying Sony and Nintendo dont have their problems, and the PS5 might be more boring than the Series X, but theyre still killing it. The only good thing has been game pass. Not infinite, not gears 5, sure as hell not halo 5, hifi rush and sea of thieves were pretty good, but now you can play SOT on playstation and they just killed the company that made hifi. I used to defend xbox, but its impossible with how poorly its been handled even after a decade of its biggest mistake. Just take me back to the 360 and wii days

[@zieraq]

No the current bad games release under Phil's management is not the result of Don doing destruction to the brand. The brand might never able compete anymore but worsening the conditions is because Phil still at the top after so many bad games releases. Would u put the blame to the people who is not responsible of the current woes? Oh right, u already did.

[@Leesin6767]

Don started it, Nadella, Spencer, Booty and Bond will finish it. 👌

[@siloPIRATE]

The rot started with Don Mattrick, then set in with the Xbox One

[@betag24cn]

i think ypu ever had a xbox with dvd drive stuck, catching fire or the rrod, so for you all was perfect, things never improved, just became more clear after two decades, they didnt had a plan, so they came up with this, a beautiful disaster in progress basically

[@cyxceven]

It still amazes me how they straight up advertised the Xbone for "TV", while having none of the major sports networks' broadcasting rights signed on. Surprised no one sued them for false advertising. But then again, hardly anyone bought one. XD Don's whole career was based on lying to everyone.

[@J-Pow]

The original pitch for Xbox One was truly one of the most dystopian Big Brother devices though. They were planning on using the Kinect camera to verify the person playing the game was the authorized user who purchased the license.

[@Lexicon-ff6or]

I was a loyal XBox fanboy back in the 360 days. I'll never forget the sheer confusion I felt watching Microsoft destory years of brand reputation in just one press conference with the XBO launch. It really like Microsoft was taking their hardcore gamers for granted, and genuinely believed we'd be too stupid to notice all the BS they were planning on dumping on us for the new generation. And to their surprise many of us switched sides and never looked back, Microsoft has definitely paid severely for that mistake but i do hope Xbox does make a comeback as the console space is in desperate need for real competition.

[@amexlion]

yep, MS is shit but we do need them as competition so Sony wont repeat shits MS did.

[@Midekai]

It's crazy how one CEO could completely wreck a product's trajectory. I still remember when sega's CEO at the time of the sega saturn, stopped all production of western sega saturn development of games and distribution and publishing in 1997, a whole almost 2 years before the dreamcast would come out in late 1999. While that console was failing at the time, there was next to nothing to play if you were a sega fan at the time and happened to buy the console and enjoy it. Lackluster presence in such a competitive market can be a silent killer. And this video shows a modern example of such a disaster.

[@lganeshan86]

"stick with 360" Those words destroyed him

[@Toongeek45]

You mentioned 1vs100 briefly. I'm still grieving over the loss of that! Avatars may have been a Wii ripoff, But they really worked there! And the sense of community during gameplay was the best feeling ever! They really had something there!

[@chillnspace777]

That game was awesome

[@Talon97]

I like how you conveniently left out the national security issue with the NSA and project Prism lol.

[@BoxiesAU]

I remember buying a XO on launch, and party chat didn't even work properly. It was a disaster all around

[@stinyg]

The 360 era was soo good that even the RRODs didnt stop xbox from breaking into the console market. Now even gamepass which is quite awesome ,xbox is still in last place.

[@Wobble2007]

Crazy to think Microsoft got it so right with the original version of the Xbox 360, it was just so perfectly executed, it had a really snappy fast dashboard that was simple and easy to navigate, it had almost no perceivable latency at all, it had immaculate analogue video via component/VGA/RGB and fantastic digital image quality via HDMI and the 360 supported a plethora of different resolutions and aspect ratios (and it actually renders them all properly and adjusts POV accordingly), the games ran either off the disc just like precious generations, but you also had the option of installing the whole game on the main drive, giving you much faster loading times and faster texture rendering, and you could still enjoy high-quality digital direct CD audio as the game was still in the DVD drive, and then there was the really spot on HRTF audio the 360 had that every game had natively baked into the game, giving the 360 proper multi-positional surround sound thanks to it's 256 32-Bit audio channels, MS mandated every game be encoded in high-quality DD 5.1 at the minimum, and many were in DTS, the 360 just got the audio spot on, Dead Rising for instance has really good HRTF audio baked into the engine. Then there are the games, there were plenty of single-player exclusives like Dead Rising, The Darkness, Gears of War series, Halo series, Forza, tons of exclusive gems and tons of multi-plats that played best on the 360, and that was just the main game platform on the 360, it also had the incredible XBA platform that MS had put strict limits in place that turned out to be genius because it meant we got a huge library of digital only exclusives that were consistently released on the platform at good price points, gems like Splosion Man, Limbo, Shadow Complex, Trials HD, Boom Boom Rocket, Battlefield 1943, and dozens more and they were nearly all bangers, one after the other, this wouldn't have happened has MS not put size limits in place for XBA games that forced devs to focus on gameplay instead of just fancy presentation and so on, there was even the Indies platform that had it's own guidelines and size limits, and it gave us gems like Dig Deep Miner, it was the spiritual successor to PlayStations Net Yaroze project, we even got some of the first HD remasters, and these were actually well done remasters that left the spirit of the game intact and just upgraded the resolution and in some cases audio quality, we got gems like Resident Evil 0 HD, Beyond Good & Evil HD, XBA had very little shovel ware due to MS placing quality standards not seen on current platforms, which is why moderns digital platforms have so much shovel ware. There were also great quality of life touches on the 360, like being able to mix your own music CD's into video games you were currently playing, and it did it so well because it properly mixed and balanced the audio levels with he current games audio effects and disabled the games normal soundtrack but left the SFX intact with proper sound levels, that was all purposely done and thought out by the MS devs, Microsoft employed their best dev talent that normally worked on Windows for the 360s initial Blades OS, which is why it was so good, sadly MS destroyed it though with the awful dash updates that just got worse & worse until it reached peak terrible levels with the Metro dash, the NDE was good in comparison, but nothing came close to the snappy Blades GUI. Oh did I mention the 360 also had near perfect OGXB backwards compatibility with over 96% of the library playable in 1080p & DDL 5.1, what about the native PC monitor support that can do 4:3, 16:10 aspect ratios as well as traditional 16:9, what about the immaculate online multiplayer network with perfect always on HQ party voice chat, the instant messaging in game by either voice or text, the matchmaking that just works and works well, or the sub 5ms latency over HDMI or sub 1ms via VGA or RGB on a CRT, the brilliant achievement's that can really extend the replayability of your favourite games and add a real challenge, leader boards and high-scores, MS gave us all of those things with the 360 (and even the OGXB for some of those features). All that momentum, amazing games, console hardware and software MS built was destroyed with the 360 E type with the Metro Dash and Xbox One, which had dog slow user dash riddled with latency, COD Ghosts felt as if you were playing through quick-sand, MS forgot how to make exclusive games, except for Rare Replay, the Xbox One has nothing worth buying the console for, the digital platform was just a generic digital storefront, gone were those special and creative Xbox Arcade games, gone were those experimental Indies, gone were the QOL features that we got to enjoy on the 360, gone was the plug & play choice of just playing of the disc in seconds, gone was the optional update choice, gone was the low latency gameplay, Xbox went from the gold standard video game console, to the pointless paper weight with no games, piss poor online network performance, no always on voice chat in the name of censoring people, I could go on. With MS dead in the water now, there may be an opening for a newcomer to release a console that lives up to the original Xbox 360 Arcade console.

[@NostraSamus]

Say what you will, but at least Don had games coming to the platform, ironically. What has Phil done? He’s worsening the wound.

[@MizzahTee]

Wrong. Peter Moore is the one that got that ball rolling and success was on cruise control by the time Donny showed up. You’re telling us that Donny delivered more games in his tenure during Phil? Hahahahahahaha

[@begottenbaker]

People always like to say motion controls were simply a fad, but without them we wouldn't have advanced VR to the point it's at now. I think people often forget that stuff like the Wii and even the Kinect were baby steps to getting that tech working. Hell, some people even use the Kinect for full body tracking in VR

[@accumulator5734]

Are we sure he wasn’t just following his boss’ orders?

[@baked7423]

im ngl, i dont think don mattrick's goal was actually a bad idea conceptually, it just was poorly done because the priorities were not there. The games should have been first but they were blinded by chasing trends. If we are to believe them, statistically it made sense to go that direction for them but considering they were still selling a *Games* console that which they built their brand upon, that should have been the focus along with all these other features being bonuses. I think the idea was it would help justify buying a box as maybe a parent wouldnt want to just buy purely a console. And as they use the box more, they might dip their toes into the games. Maybe not the exact same but similarly to nintendo providing unique experiences, I think future consoles will provide more ways to play cuz otherwise it just becomes a PC basically. Of course the convenience of plug & play and relatively cheaper price helps but if there isn't much games as we see now, when do u actually use ur system. That's why i think Microsoft doing the series S route is a good idea (without butchering the ram maybe), make the cheapest way to get people into ur ecosystem especially if it's to buy into a service. Them saying next console will be the biggest leap does nothing other than expect another high priced machine. Series S being so compact yet powerful is very appealing and lowers the barrier of entry for people. While handheld PCs haven't quite taken off yet, their high price is justified by the experience they offer since You cant do that on a desktop PC. That's the incentive to buy "gaming laptops" as well since u can play games while also having benefits of a laptop. I think the next generation of consoles for all 3 will be very interesting to see

[@Atais_UKBM]

Phil Spencer is in no way a saint but honestly who would want to put in much effort when you’ve gotta run cleanup after the last guy when you take on a new job, I’ve been there it’s a real pain in the ass

[@modernmobster]

It's been a decade. Phil is just as bad if he can't turn things around after that long.

[@Dairunt1]

@@modernmobster I liked the decisions he have been making until recently. I do think Xbox is in a better state than when he took over, but we don't see a bright future ahead. I think the problem with Xbox is the problem I've seen all over the tech industry; we've become complacent to investors. Obviously, this is a business, but Xbox; a GAMING brand, should protect its developers and the quality of its games over anything else; investors included. Firing people and then saying they need more games like the ones those people made is one of the worst takes I've seen in gaming history, and only adds more cynicism to the already cynic landscape of tech development. Employees don't care about company values, and corporate doesn't care about their employees. What do you get from that? Mediocre quality products and decisions, from upper management all the way down, and whatever quality product that comes from that it's not thanks to the company, but rather DESPITE it.

[@TheRealtalk617]

@@Dairunt1 Phil is a complete flop as well. Under his leadership Xbox is on life support and he's transitioned the entire brand into a gaming subscription.

[@Dairunt1]

@@TheRealtalk617 He made a big bet turning Xbox into a subscription service, but to his credit, I can see why. Exclusives are becoming less and less economically sound, games are taking longer and more expensive to make, PlayStation is miles ahead of the Xbox in terms of sales and Nintendo pretty much owns the handheld market thanks to the Switch. There's not really any more room for Xbox to grow besides subscription/cloud. Maybe the story would have been different if they took iPhone seriously in 2007 and Windows Phone would have dethroned Android. They could have done something around mobile and maybe Windows as a whole should have started to migrate to ARM since then. All of these issues are all symptoms of the bigger problem which is Microsoft. Of course, having a subscription service with a slow stream of content of varying quality is not going to make your service any good. If you're taking ownership from costumers then you have to distract them with new content constantly.

[@irshadtyo]

@@TheRealtalk617how is Xbox on life support? Please elaborate

[@kozad86]

“The Man Who Destroyed Xbox” is not only the correct phrasing, it sounds nicer too.

[@rvalent9366]

Imo the worst problem wasn't the whole tv thing for one, it was the slow and weak cpu and the os, everything is laggy within the system, even when installed on ssd, while ps4 just feel snappy

[@xOogieBoogie3x]

Releasing a console using DDR3 unified memory vs GDDR5 was an unreported downfall. XBO has most games running at 720p.

[@greengrugach1984]

Phil Spencer is also part of the problem, the XB needs exclusive games, great games that are not available on PC for at least 6 months to a year, it's just a cheap PC now.

[@fr0ck360]

Bro’s never going to recover his career. He probably got blacklisted ever since that Xbox One disaster

[@WhatisReal11]

In the grand scheme Phil Spencer has done an equal amount of damage if not more

[@mohammadrezasayari4107]

He was actually better than Spencer , Spencer had 100 Billion budget and 11 years of time and couldn’t fix anything

[@mobarakjama5570]

Phil Spencer is the MAN.

[@TheSupersmash97]

Don almost killed Xbox over 10 years ago tf you on?

[@wilsongao6789]

Don is the one build up Xbox 360. You can't blame Don for the launch of the Xbox One. It was Microsoft higher ups that decided to have these features.

[@mohammadrezasayari4107]

@@TheSupersmash97 I think xbox is pretty much dead now. Games and hardware both gone multiplatform

[@mohammadrezasayari4107]

@@mobarakjama5570 the Gay man

[@Audioremedy0785]

Don Mattrick for me is the embodiment of ‘corporate’. No personality, no connection with the fans. He was a suit trying to sell games consoles. Rather than connect with gamers.

[@AllThingsInfamous1]

I was expecting a thumbnail of phil spencer 😂

[@gamept571]

At least Phil Spencer fk care.

[@MrJinRoh]

Thats not Phil Spencer.

[@dewinter1411]

Right. Because Spencer did a lot to rebuild the brand after this guy nearly wrecked it. You may not want to admit it but Spencer did bring it back. You may not like what’s happened in recent years, but Xbox may not even be here if not for Spencer in the years after Mattrick. A lot of people don’t understand the current strategy, but they know what they are doing. The strategy is long term, not near sighted short term. Yall will see. And I’m a PC player, not an Xbox fanboy.

[@MrJinRoh]

​@@dewinter1411 "I’m a PC player"Thats exactly why you support phil who killed xbox and ported its games to pc. Dan Matrick made exclusive games for xbox.

[@irshadtyo]

@@MrJinRohso when Sony ports their games to pc it’s cool and innovative, but when Xbox does it, it’s a fucking problem????

[@MrJinRoh]

@@irshadtyo Sony followed microsoft's steps.

[@theoriginaljrest]

Could someone please tell me the titles of the 2 games shown at 1:49 and 1:52?

[@onwardsandupwards547]

1st one is Lost Planet. The 2nd one is an animation made for the summer of arcade promotion, so it's not an actual game. I think it was the 2012 trailer

[@GatMan808]

Phil still has an effect on the downfall. He’s had plenty of time to right the ship. Blaming a guy that hasn’t been at Xbox for 10 plus years is ridiculous!

[@ShadowWolfQc]

Should be a vid about Phailed Spender.

[@Prmex1993]

At this point it’s not his fault for how bad they been, it’s been more then 10 years and still barely have any games instead they want you to play their games on pc and now other consoles. Miss the early ps3 vs 360 era 😔

[@kingsleyjackson8287]

What’s wrong with putting games on PC,u still have mad people on console

[@SIPEROTH]

@@kingsleyjackson8287 For the people on PC is great but for the console is bad and therefore console owners as well. Right now no one is interested in buying Xbox because the games can be played on PC anyway. For some consumers that is great, they can buy one less system and for strictly PC players is great as well since they get games they weren't getting before. But this means that the console is pointless and therefore low sales. and the lowers and lower sales go the more it will be pointless to exist as a platform and ether just shut down or because another PC store or simple game developer. The guy who invested in an Xbox also feels duped as well. He bought that system to get something unique and he realises is pointless having it. Is like if Apple went and put iOS and every app they have and every operating system and tech they have in every other system. Now you can get everything Apple by just buying any Pc or Smartphone. Some people will love it but Apple will become a much smaller company and people that invested in their highly priced products will get so annoyed they will want to smash them on the nearest wall. Nintendo understands this which is why they keep their stuff and don't give it to everyone even if a Mario game on PC will make good money. A good example on how console sales matter is the fact that Playstation Plus has more subscribers than Game Pass despite Xbox promoting and leaning on game Pass much more heavily. Microsoft has been pushing Game Pass like crazy paying billions to enhance it and yet Playstation Plus has a lot more subscribers simply because more people have Playstation. And more people have Playstation because more people thought there is still some value getting one. Sony though is following the mistakes of Microsoft on PC releases even to lesser degree and they will start feeling the pain in future consoles sales if they think they can put everything on PC and it won't hurt their console sales.

[@virxest]

Big companies are obsessed with growth, but not in the traditional "let the games do the talking" way, but looking for "ways" outside of it. If you consistently release good games, people will buy, money will come in, and all parties will be happy. It seems that they want to be in the "console business" with anything but good games, that's why they have trouble finding "growth".

[@8bitnation419]

I saw an Xbox One at the dump looked like a VCR, couldn't save it from the dump, but i guess i can see why it was there.

[@linklickz]

don was just too early for those ideas

[@snoopysmx5257]

I really miss the good days of the 360 truly an amazing console generation

[@DustyOrchid057]

Just going to say this that no one seems to care about, what is killing the Xbox brand is the Enforcement Team. NO ONE should get banned indefinitely from their xbox account

[@jackharpe3rd233]

Considering the fact that pretty much all the Kinect Games were offline titles, I would suspect that they would still be playable even after Online Support was shut down.

When someone questions me that a multi-billion multinational corporation wouldn't put someone with debatable skills in charge of the business, the first thing that comes to mind is don mattrick's xbone launch. i can only dream how many red flags, internal and external he had to wholeheartedly ignore for years just to have the balls to do something as awful as that event went, unironically. one of the worst messages he said it himself! "just get a 360", there is no way he is not competent enough to figure out that since they gave the shaft to a portion of their consumer base, the wisest move to be to come clean and tell them "sorry we dont have plans to serve you at this time" instead of the petty "no thanks but also dont buy our competitor product that does attend to this market demand" like the consumer didn't had any other options besides them.

[@AmritZoad]

Phil Spencer and Matt Booty are destroying Xbox now.

[@Slinger184Paintball]

Man… imagine if they had launched the Xbox One X (Not the original One) under a different name, no Kinect and Phill Spencer at the helm?… we would be in an Xbox dominant gaming reality right now 😕

[@MisbegottenFool]

I got my first 360, with a microsoft hard drive to play og xbox games as well in the year 2017. Since then it has become my favorite console to collect for and as someone who had a ps4 and now has a ps5. I really don't see the need to switch. All my favorite xbox titles are older titles from the og xbox and 360 era. I think it goes to show just how great the 360 was, even with its flaws its an incredible console. The 7th generation was an interesting time because every console had pros and cons, even with the kinnect the 360 still had amazing 1st and 3rd party games. And while there are a few games I'm missing out on like halo 5 and Infinite, there's NO WHERE NEAR the amount of ps4 games I'd be missing out on if I just stuck with my ps3. I'm not trying to hate on xbox or be a sony fanboy, but xbox is sadly in a bad spot, "okay we don't have as many exclusives as the ps4" (buys Bethesda, Obsidian, and Activision) and still we get meh titles and they turn around shut down half of the studios they bought. Somethings gotta change over there, I want to see them succeed but it's kind of embarrassing and sad to see them stumble again and again. Hopefully titles like Avowed and the new Fable and the LONG AWAITED Elder Scrolls 6 will breath new life into Xbox. If those games are actually good, I might just buy a series x. But until then we'll just have to wait and see.

[@amcstryker7]

If you needed to put a pin on the Xbox’s timeline where they completely fucked things up and never truly recovered from, it was the unveiling of the Xbox One and the subsequent comment regarding the offline Xbox 360. One man fucked everything up. Without question. Phil had to do his best with plugging every hole the sinking ship that is the Xbox brand. I think that’s why they made a push for Xbox Anywhere, focus on PC, backwards compatibility, cloud gaming, game pass, and hardware like the One X and Elite Series controllers. Genuinely great products and services for the most part. But you can tell they tried to do their very best to get away from the initial reveal. I highly doubt any of those things would have made it to market if they were at the top, or close to it. Things would’ve been very different if they went in just building upon the 360 from the beginning. Because of their hands being forced to pivot to services like game pass and xcloud, now they are going down a different path that would lead them to sinking anyway.

[@soralifestory]

Someone gets it. People talking about its been 10 years. The damage was done though. Phil got left a bad hand, not saying hes amazing but for keeping xbox afloat and some idea of relevant after the brand damage that was done is commendable. Microsoft and Xbox arent great by any means, but the Xbox brand has gotten a really bad rep, just for continuing to compete, while the competition is going stagnant because they have the market share. As a big PS Fan, Sony isnt really doing a great job either

[@fantoniumnitrous]

@@soralifestory Uh, the PS3 & 3DS recovered though, so the Xbox One could have too. They just decided not to

[@TeruteruBozusama]

7:39 so... Xbone was planning to be the new CDI

[@FruitNDoggie]

Hey, he managed to make an incredibly expensive door stop. Even if he left before the Xbox One officially launched though, he had already laid down the track that Microsoft was stuck with for years to come. It's not like they could completely redesign the entire console at that point. It's a shame leaders who screw over a company can't be sued or held liable for the damage they cause, because when it's all your fault, you shouldn't just get to quietly walk away in shame and take another sweet position elsewhere.

[@mbc111975]

That's not my only problem with Don. There were many features there we enjoyed in our household but because he shoved it down everyone's throat now all of that is gone.

[@IxXDOMINATORXxI]

"if you want to play offline we have a console for you, it's called Xbox 360" I'll never forget Don saying that and even as a die hard xbox guy i knew it was game over right there. Even Geoff (the interviewer) couldn't believe he said that lol

[@DavidMac8Six8]

Don had a great idea and I would say he was even ahead of his time in some ways but he made the mistake of making the Kinekt, party games and the Xbox as a streaming console the priority. Those things had their place but as 3rd, 4th and 5th place. The first 3 priorities of Xbox is to make a great gaming console for consumers at a reasonable price point, make an easy platform for devs to develop games for and lastly be the ones to develop the best narrative titles for it beyond Halo and Gears.

[@arian12300]

The guy is from Vancouver, Canada, that's like the worst of the worst... no surprises here.

[@itchyisvegeta]

I still regret not making the jump to PS4 when E3 happened, but boy did I try and get my friends to. I hooked my 360 back up and played it almost all night. Even after having a Series S and One X, the Xbox 360 is STILL the better system. I can still plug it into my tube TV, I can play background music easier (wasn't a feature on Xbox One until later), the games were better and didn't need 4 years of patches to fix (cough, Halo MCC), and I have nothing but good memories of it. The dashboard on the Xbox One/Series has improved, but HOLY CRAP was that the worst console dashboard ever. Couldn't find anything at all. Still a problem today. The Switch is my favorite current gen dashboard because the simplicity is so refreshing.

[@WWE2KUNIVERSEELITE]

The xbox 360 was actually popular in my country because it was easy to jailbreak and you could play fake cds in it.

[@davidknightx]

I bought a Series X for only three reasons: GamePass, access to physical disk games so I can buy used (my PS5 is digital edition), and to keep me from having to use Epic Game Store.

[@SUPERFunStick]

5:29 I hear what you did there. Guide button sounds for bar graphs. I'm not really impressed or happy about it and it's not that special but i noticed it. Now that i noticed it once I hear that you put it everywhere so it's even less interesting.

[@rick-deckard]

This is an important video! People asking for Phil's head but the damage of this man and previous management is still felt today and will be felt.

[@BowtieJDP]

When my 360 red ringed I switched to PC. Never came back.

[@flpndrox]

Sony tried to be the one stop entertaient center during the PS3 era as well, it just didnt have kinect and the ban on used games.

[@DropPodStudios]

Some key things could have put Xbox back on the road to recovery. Keeping Bungie on to do Destiny would have been a good idea, as well as letting Rare be left to do what they do best. I don’t know, it just seems like Microsoft isn’t as interested in the “gaming” aspect of Xbox as Sony is to PlayStation.

[@thedylanshow1]

Interesting video, thank you! I enjoyed the 360S, then went to the OG Xbox One, now back to the 360S. I am also in the process of repairing the Thompson drive on my OG Xbox with a new laser.

[@zapatitosonic8975]

I think the X1 could have had a comeback similar to the PS3 since (I find it odd no one made this comparison yet) the PS3 was overly focused on its new features that it end up hurting in the beginning, resulting its comeback but cutting so many features to cheap the price of the PS3 as more affordable. On top by making actual great games that defines its identity

[@mmarshfairc3]

Interesting video, good job! I do want to chime in, you say the Wii motion controls were terrible. They weren’t terrible. Many games used it badly but many games were also incredibly enhanced by it. It paved the way for gyro & VR, which is a net positive. It is also a net positive that the Wii welcome so many non gamers to the gamer world

[@Vikturus22]

don matrick infamous line was the most insulting thing you could ever say to a consumer wanting a new product. Also 8:41 is one of the most legendary trolls from a company i Have ever seen.

[@toerti9589]

That they focus so much on FPS games is another thing. Dont get me wrong, i love FPS games ... on the PC, with mouse and keyboard. They never understood console gaming. I love playing third person games like god of war, devil may cry etc. on console. Ryse was a step in the right direction.

[@Baker_Boi]

Honestly, if they just didn’t mention the DRM, had a reasonable offline mode, and just focused on games while mention the tv aspects, and not make the Kinect mandatory (then reduce the base price to $400), the Xbox would’ve done a lot better. They just shot themselves in the foot so badly by thinking “oh I guess people buy a gaming console to watch movies and tv”. The tv stuff was just nice to have and since ps3 had a blue ray player AND was cheaper and better than other blue ray players, it was a no brainer for everyone. It was just added value, not the reason people bought it

[@adrianb714]

Phill Spencer: hold my controller 🎮

[@nathanrussell2158]

Fable the journey made me cry. I knew Fable would be shelved after that.

[@SpaceCowBoyRay]

It was already on the deckine with the 360 kinect and Kinectimals

[@UltraWatzen]

Why is Martin Shkreli in the thumbnail?

[@icomefromcanadia2783]

I've had an Xbox since day 1 and I have to say when I first fired up my Series X I was immediately hit with disappointment. Same dashboard, games still being released for the previous gen which made the new one feel less worthwhile and held back development potential, and the dashboard now has ads. What a let down. Not to mention the lack of exclusives and the over saturation of awful live service games that I couldn't care less about and I've been playing games the least in my life now, or at least new games. I use my Xbox for like 1 or 2 new games per year now not because I don't have time or interest in gaming, but because the experience just kind of sucks now, being blasted with ads, unfinished games with way too many addons for purchase, and not enough story mode. All I want are single player story mode games with multiplayer mayyybe as a bonus. The infrequency of good story driven games really makes me question whether a new console is worth it. I prefer consoles for the living room experience, but it's been brutal the last 5-8 or so years.

[@Mellojoseph]

Pretty good video although you glanced over a few key factors over the Generations that the Xbox lost. In the case of the PS3 vs The Xbox the Xbox 360 sold more units during the entirety of it's generation and only after the ps4 had come out did it surpass the Xbox 360 in sales. Also if you factor in the fact that the 360 had it's users on a Subscription while the ps3 was initially selling at a loss the 360 came out on vastly top in terms of revenue. Now with the case of the Xbox one the only thing you skipped is that it did outsell the Wii U, but as you showed the switch came in and dominated it's sales

[@SIPEROTH]

No i remember articles just before the new consoles came out that PS3 finally surpassed 360 in sales.

[@rhomanW]

unreal video, you deserve so much more recognition for this.