Xbox Hoaxes and Fakes That Fooled The World

Starting even before the original Xbox there have been many rumors, leaks, hoaxes and such surrounding the Xbox brand. History of things like the Xbox 720, the Xbox 360 handheld, Zune Xbox, Xbox 2 and many more.
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[@ceruleanlancer]

The 720 rumor was so popular on the playground at my elementary school. I remember hearing it and believing it so much.

[@mackinblack]

For God sakes man, you were 27 years old back then! Why were you hanging around your old elementary school playground???

[@itsyahomiescott3742]

@@mackinblackWtf? How do you know his age? Are you stalking him?

[@jeremyrennerfn]

i remember me and my friends in elementary theorizing that it would be called the xbox infinity because 720 was too obvious

[@stinkypinky5724]

My elementary too! Here in 🇨🇦

[@k1ll4w4ttnohacks7]

I remember showing my friends the photo in the school library the 720 was going to be massive 🤣🤣🤣

[@robollama8612]

The concept at 5:48 actually looks strikingly similar to what we got with the 360. The contoller and the other peripherals are ridiculous, but the console itself has that glowing green power button and the curves and angles on it, even down to how xbox is printed on the front.

[@dennismakarov93]

I’m surprised no one has ever mentioned back during the 360 era Microsoft had tiny little hand held games put into cereal boxes. Like it would only be one bare bone game and you could collect more. I remember it vaguely as I was probably like 6-8 years old. Wish I kept mine, I think it may have been a snowboarding game.

[@thebatman3905]

I don't remember that I might've been too young but I remember gaming magazines having discs filled with demos of games for Xbox 360.

[@dennismakarov93]

@@thebatman3905Maybe it’s the Mandela effect 😭 I remember that but I never bought magazines soooo

[@thebatman3905]

@@dennismakarov93 it probably must've real because I remember cereal boxes having DC comics and you had to collect all of them which was cool !! But yes those demo discs people would steal them from the magazines 😂

[@dennismakarov93]

@@thebatman3905 crazy how different everything is now 😅

[@NightfurySkrill_Joel]

​@@thebatman3905the DVDs in the box for the 2010 movie How to train your Dragon.

[@TheJacintoEffect]

One of my favorite Xbox 720 references is in real steel in the final fight and it’s on the advertisements across the stadium

[@goop1354]

Fun fact: sega did end up making/collabing with Microsoft to build a console of sorts. the Sega Chihiro is a console made exclusively to be used in arcade cabinets based on the og xbox

[@4dxl]

The Xbox 720 hype was real

[@КириллКузьминых-ъ6э]

Xbox 720 vs PlayStation 7... 🤣😅😂

[@moiseskerschener2634]

@@КириллКузьминых-ъ6э😮

[@Undeciti]

Omg I just realized that the Xbox 720 “mock up” looks like 343 Guilty Spark 😂😂

[@disaster_chief]

i love how it's called the xbox but the most circulated mock up was a sphere

[@luckyducky7819]

As a child, I thought the "Xbox 360" name was the perfect choice. In my mind, it meant the console was well rounded; I'd have all my favorite kinds of games on the thing, and to be fair I had just that. My Xbox games, my 360 shooters, And games like Dead Rising.

[@scottoleson1997]

I remember the Xbox 2 in a magazine back in 2003-2004 and never being able to find it since

[@boubayaga_]

We've had removable and rechargeable batteries since the 360 with the play and charge kit

[@luckyducky7819]

I think he meant natively. Like the PS4's controller.

[@boubayaga_]

​@@luckyducky7819Yeah that's fair and makes sense. But like it's a pretty simple budget decision to make to buy a play and charge kit over several packs of disposable batteries. I agree it should be included completely

[@bldontmatter5319]

​@@boubayaga_I remember going through 30+ batteries a month between my brother and my Gameboys and our new controllers. My dad bought rechargeables once he found out

[@spoiledshorts69]

@@boubayaga_man i don’t i’ve always been on the side of external batteries because batteries wear down and get shitty over time that’s just how they work. To me it felt like xbox gave me more life outta my controllers because once a battery starts to feel like it’s dying too fast I get another one and the cycle repeats. My ps4 controller absolutely blows it lasts maybe 3-4 hours then i gotta recharge with a wire attached instead of just grabbing a new battery pack.

[@kalkalico]

I think another thing that may have fueled rumors of Xbox and Sega joining forces to make a new Sega console was the fact that Sega used Xbox hardware for their Chihiro arcade machines, meaning they already had an established hardware partnership lasting for several years until they switched to PC hardware for their cabinets

[@scarletcrusader5431]

God all those new consoles rumors I saw on '09 KZbin will always hold a special place in my heart

[@tassaron]

After the 360 was announced, some people called the original Xbox "Xbox 180", which in retrospect we shouldve kept doing since they later released an Xbox 1...

[@Chris.Batchelor]

For the “Streaming Stick” rumors around 20:30, this was a thing they were working on and was even in the background of a few videos Phil Spencer had posted in the past. It’s also in the brand new leaks that have surfaced showing the console itself in “higher” quality.

[@gechoman44iwantahippo]

For some reason, I always thought that the 360’s successor should be called the 490 and not 720 as a kid

[@KidTonyGaming]

You're theory of Xbox using sidewinder as the official controller makes sense, if you think about it. Sidewinder controllers had 6 face buttons and 2 triggers, when the Xbox was first shown, all the games were being played with a 6 face button sidewinder controller. Guess how many face button the Duke had....6 XBYA and the black and white buttons. To be honest I feel like the Duke was just a reshashed sidewinder, and Microsoft had a sidewinder controller similar in design to the Duke. 3:38

[@RealKaiserRyu]

According to Helena Douglas in Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2 there’s only 5 prototype Xbox’s in the world. Normally this wouldn’t hold water, but back then Team Ninja and especially Tomonobu Itagaki would have this insider knowledge.

[@eleven99]

I like the thought of a handheld console where the disc functions as a buzzsaw.

[@EasyTargetNIN]

720 was so popular that they showed promotion in the real steel movie

[@alekbriceno8697]

I remember.... unfortunate it wasn't said here

[@EasyTargetNIN]

@@alekbriceno8697 yea

[@dynamon911nz]

I do belive the 720 naming scheme even if was probaly used for mostly an term or whatever was intended used for Xbox one as make sense next step further than 360 degrees. but it got changed to avoid it becoming too much like atari like those numerial console back then. so who knows really if they kept towards to series x and s would gone totaly diferent.

[@theotakux5959]

I always heard it was called the Xbox 360 because of the Playstation 3 but also the Nintendo Revolution (like a 360 degree turn), since the Wii was still only known by its development codename at the time.

[@esseubot]

Oh this looks promissing, I remember how chaotic the missinformation was back in the day.

[@maricthehedgehog]

In my opinion, the x-zune concept is the most well done concept in this video !

[@MrRorosao]

Ahhh that 11 years old video! What a nostalgia!

[@_SYDGAMING_]

Turn Into MEGA MEGA MEGA DENJI SENTAI MEGARANGER. God just hearing that jingle at the start has megaranger stuck in my head

[@dragonalfie3155]

good seeing you two in camera for once keep up the good work

[@Lanier2369]

I know it would have been hard then and maybe now but it would have been cool to see something kind the actual x Xbox like the prototypes shown. I know the general box style (no pun intended) is the best and most efficient way to make consoles but it would be fun to see a company to get creative, tho I'm sure it'll be much more expensive to sell.

[@whocares9033]

I didn't have an iPod, nor have I ever wanted one 🤷

[@ComfyCherry]

you know I'd never heard "nextbox" before but I think I'll call upcoming console the "nextbox" and "futurestation" just sounds fun to me

[@JDMystic]

All this reminds me of is the Microsoft Video Editor video with Bodies playing in the background 😂

[@Omni-Man]

Turns out there is a bit of space under the bottom of the barrel.

[@ELTT1]

i remember that everyone thought that the name was actually xbox 720 when the icon showed up in the movie real steel

[@NO1SETVNK]

Can you do one for the PlayStation consoles?

[@juniperjabber]

This is very interesting to learn about. cool video!

[@lavoncooper3176]

fun fact the film real steel has xbox 720 as one of the sponsors

[@CzarOfVermont]

Never knew the sidewinder halo fact, thank u.

[@KeepItClean25]

Ahh the good ol days, goofy console and phone rumors and leaks, game rumors like Halo for the Playstation, or the strange Chinese dragon costume looking creature that was rumored to be in halo 4, etc. Good times

[@ragemonkey117]

The xbox 720 was so massive that it showed up in Real Steele. The freakin movie.

[@fatfurie]

@17:31 whats weird about a pc tower?

[@Notpoop906]

Microsoft continued the SideWinder line for a lot longer than you said. They still sell Microsoft SideWinder mice on amazon. I used to use a SideWinder X4 in like 2014

[@aki7slush]

DAD I MISSED YOUUU

[@CalebM-kv9pi]

Whats the music starting at 0:30?

[@medea27]

Part of the reason some of the concepts look bizarre but still in the realms of possibility is that people started following the many patents, trademarks & copyrighted designs that the big tech companies would lodge each year. Microsoft, Apple, Sony & Nintendo were the big ones, and what journalists & fans would do is make mock-ups based on the registered designs and/or descriptions.... but it was always speculation because Microsoft might register half a dozen different console case designs for example, but only refine & manufacture one of them for the end product. And I actually have a Zune - I bought it for my mother as a small mp3 player when she was in the hospital. It was a cheap alternative to the iPods that I had, and easier to just drag & drop ripped CDs onto. The Zune was never really a big competitor for the iPod because it just did the same thing that hundreds of other generic mp3 players that were coming out of the Asian market were doing... but they cost a fraction of the price without the big tech brand name attached. iPods were the first revolutionary Apple product that really ignited the 'Apple fanboy/girl' phenomenon, so a lot of the draw was the design & integration with iTunes... Microsoft had no hope of capturing that market.

[@DevinsWorld1999]

Theo Joe who is a KZbinr shared a video where you could “trick” your Xbox into thinking it was the original XBOX one. Of course, that was fake. My mom didn’t want me to mess with it

[@КириллКузьминых-ъ6э]

2001 - Xbox 180 2005 - Xbox 360 2013 - Xbox 540 2020 - Xbox 720 Series X 2028 - Xbox 900 Series X

[@OfficialSKLTN]

Xbox 720 ended up being referenced in the movie Real Steel and thats when I thought it was happening😂😂

[@Fuuntag]

3:12 AWESOME, something to go with my PS3 Boomerang controller.

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Wireless charging is a dumb, slow novelty. Also, Xbox controllers have HAD their own rechargable battery packs since the 360 in addition to the option to use AA batteries. And why would you want the option to use AA batteries taken away?

[@KidTonyGaming]

Ok back in 2009 I legit thought the next Xbox was gonna be the 720, or the Xbox Cowboy

[@GeneralGorillaSonicOC]

The rumors regarding Microsoft putting Xbox Live, Xbox Game Pass, Halo and other major franchises on Nintendo Switch which Phil Spencer shut down twice.

[@VBottasG]

the fake xbox 720 trailer resembles the dualsense scaringly well

[@sakuradabp6400]

What is the problem with the controllers having a batteries option? You can get a rechargable battery or use the batteries, having them as option is good, so I don't get what's the problem, it's like people didn't know Xbox has rechargable stuff like any controller

[@Bond007er]

Also they are replaceable

[@MordecaiTheAwesomeBluejay]

Not Xbox related but I remember when there were rumors that Windows 11 was going to be based on the Linux kernel which is insane by the way

[@Trance222]

Why don’t you upload campaign challenges anymore?

[@redstonecommander5190]

Well, since a few years of the Xbox one is starting to become to an end, they were starting to make plans for an Xbox series 2 concept but unfortunately, this concept never came to be and it said we have the Xbox series X unfortunately this never came to be and instead we have the series X

[@nickf8268]

13:40 I remember this video. 😂

[@diurtydantv8061]

Someone please tell me where I can get an X shaped shell replacement for my Xbox

[@plasticsoldier234]

Def remember the 720 rumor! Why does everyone complain about xbox controllers using double A batteries? I love it cause I can use a battery pack or double A if needed and I can REPLACE the battery unlike on play station controllers which their batteries on mine have died over time

[@retroman3960]

You forgot another rumor that ended up being false, and that is free online multiplayer coming to Xbox consoles.

[@InternetPeopleAreNotReal]

End of all hope by Nightwish, nice

[@mynameiswizard.lottonthewi2055]

I unironically think Xbox 720 would be such a hard name for a console to this day

[@xanderonamy]

1:44 imagine if the sidewinder actually got to be the name of the xbox, we would have the sidewinder 360, sidewinder one, and the sidewinder series x/s, NGL xbox fits better

[@whocares9033]

Weird to assume they'd stay with numbers and not call their consoles other snake names

[@xanderonamy]

@@whocares9033 yup

[@ghostface5559]

a solid ingot of aluminium to that scale of the big x would be a monster.

[@bobtom1495]

I can't believe you didn't mention that the movie Real Steel had the Xbox 720 logo in it...

[@PSYCHOPATH_AT_LARGE]

Jesus Christ, the Zune didn’t stand a chance against a IPod

[@atomicpunch723]

Hey I had pre ordered the Xbox 720 and paid $300 and honestly hasn’t showed up yet

[@roguespartan2854]

Im not gonna lie, that handheld in 7:59 looks nice.

[@imillnotsick420]

I liked the original Xbox controller better than the 360 when i used to play halo 2. The triggers were like more springy, i could double shot/quad shot on the og Xbox controller so much easier.

[@konvoi]

The Xbox 720 version of Halo 4-infinite are really good I hear.

[@erick4845jr]

Watching this vid I never said Xbox so many times in my head it's sounds weird now

[@ChefandTheArbistor]

That camera angle is… different.

[@fatfurie]

ugh.. the micrsoft sidewinder contoller was so bad.. and i actually got a similar bootleg version of it that was even worse.

[@apaceofchange94]

Always upset we didn’t get that handheld from Xbox frfr

[@apaceofchange94]

8:02 an early prediction of the PlayStation Portal

[@k1ngk4gl3]

NeXtBOX became a thing after the _XBOX Next_ name rumor

[@DisasterMaster3K]

Pc gaming picked up more around 2004 with more advanced graphic cards.

[@Thebarrshow]

We eventually got a portable Xbox tho. Cloud gaming

[@jesseashton6163]

There are Xbox Series X mini fridges at my local Walmart

[@ncmor3678]

Xbox needs to release a console and actually name it Xbox 720.

[@Krajenda]

Man, I really hope that mid gen upgrade leak is fake. It looks so fucking ugly and it's supposed to be all digital

[@lobotomite9767]

If they call the new xbox the 720 that would actually be really cool and i would buy one just for the name alone. I remember the old fake xbox 720 leaks and always thought regardless of weather those leaks where real or fake that the next xbox should be called the 720. Then they called it the "xbox one" which is dumb as hell because it's the 3rd console they made. Whoever does the product naming for microsoft should be fired.

[@Fetidaf]

It makes sense though. It was supposed to be an “all in one” device, every Xbox, cable/satellite TV, movies, music photos, whatever. Honestly the name was the least dumb thing about it, being handedly beat out by… well, everything I mentioned.

[@ComfyCherry]

the xbox 720 will be the competitior for the ps7

[@The-Dirty-Straw]

High school fever dreams man, lol.

[@КириллКузьминых-ъ6э]

2005: Xbox the Second: 360 Degrees 😂

[@mainboysmusic6985]

How is Xbox 720 a dumb name? o.O 360 > 720, it makes sense! I need an answer for this >.> I'm guessing Elijah didn't like the name of the Xbox 360 since they're pretty similar T^T

[@C25-150]

If I could trade my Thrustmaster Hotas for a new Sidewinder, i would

[@kimberlyortiz2635]

Xbox is actually Sega in disguise 😏

[@CatFish107]

Every single video starts with the exact same strained tone and cadence. Like an audio clickbait. Just listening to the first sentence, one video after the other, the words change, but the way they are said remains static.

[@fxn09here]

Xbox 720 is the biggest meme 😂😂

[@daninater1]

Xbox 720 , completed it mate

[@Steeldragon493]

It's called da Xbox 720 cuz you turn 720 degrees and walk away 😎😎

[@TheRoidemortetfleur]

The best thing about controllers.... buttons. Don't make a screen controller please.

[@sunrise2234]

No, we are getting the Xbox 1440

[@briceonyoutube7215]

Does the X has anything to do with Elon Musk X?

[@fxn09here]

The Xbox ready fans know Series C😂

[@dontbesmartalec]

Xbox 720 is a better name that Xbox one

[@jesuschristhomeslice9492]

I still dont know why Microsoft called it the XBOX ONE its not even the first XBOX, god awful name

[@scatscatmilestails6007]

I got an XBOX 720!!!

[@lewisgrant7622]

Microsoft already tried to buy nintendo once

[@mou6854]

Xbox 720 we deserved it

[@mike04574]

Lol pc gaming is still a popular thing what are you on?