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11th Anniversary of the Xbox One Reveal
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FIREKNIGHT2029
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You’re the clown that has no reading comprehension. Nowhere in that statement do I even mention Phil. If you actually look at my posting history you’ll see that I despise Phil and the entire leadership, and I blame him and his cult if followers as the primary reason for Xbox’s failures over the years. Stop making stupid assumptions and misquoting me.It's been over a decade and we're still using this argument to justify Phil's incompetence ?
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Inuteu
Member
it is a beautiful homage, bloober team put Don Mattrick as the protagonist in Silent Hill 2 remake
H-I-M
Member
FIREKNIGHT2029
Member
Take your own advice. I don't know how saying an obvious fact that 11 years ago was the beginning of the disaster for Xbox is making "excuses" for Phil.
You definitely have some unresolved issues you need to take care of. Seek help.
Topher
Gold Member
I partly agree with this sentiment, but it's unfair to put the entire blame on that one launch.
Other companies (PS with PS3 and Nintendo with WiiU) also recovered from their failures successfully. And Xbox One actually sold really well for the first 2 years or so.
We were reading headlines like this one even in 2016, three years after the Xbox One launch. Most of the Xbox's self-inflicted problems came after that launch, I believe.
Xbox One Outsells PS4 for the Fourth Month in a Row
Aided by newly released shooters Gears of War 4 and Battlefield 1, Microsoft's Xbox One console outsold Sony's PS4 for the month of October 2016, making it four months in a row.gamerant.com
No I'm not saying all of Xbox's problems are due to that launch. I'm simply saying it was the moment Xbox started going downhill and so it was very pivotal time in Xbox history. The problems didn't stop there though, I agree.
Sales of Xbox One were ok the first year, but after that they tanked. Sales were so bad that in 2015 Microsoft announced they would no longer announce sales numbers for the console. Obviously there were some bright spots along the way, but a 20-25 million dropoff in sales from Xbox 360 was huge.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
I reserved the Day One edition at MSFT official webstore and got the Day One achievement. I then canceled my order.
I still have the achievement.
I still have the achievement.
Coloress_Kafka
Member
Overall the Xbox One was terrible for games but the Kinect stuff was actually pretty cool. Xbox Fitness was awesome and was an insane deal.
MonkeyClaw36
Banned
This video when it surfaced was just too painful to watch....The security guard even lets go of the box because no-one wanted that piece of tat.
Little Chicken
Member
Everyone is welcome to choke this chicken
MonkeyClaw36
Banned
It wasn't misreading. It was utterly shitting on their target audience and not giving a tot. They used the money from the 360 owners to make the One and said thank you and fuck you to the latter.
Don Mattick can choke on a bag o' dicks.
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The amount of dicks that would have been drawn on paper and handed to Milo....
nani17
are in a big trouble
Damigos
Member
True,. it started then. But the reveal on One was apalling
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Sorry but I feel like this is mostly nonsense. Most customers have never heard of/ don’t care about this. “I’m not buying this console because Xbox staff lack the confidence I feel is necessary in today’s modern console business.”
It’s just silly, to be honest.
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Topher
Gold Member
Yeah....that quote you made up is silly because obviously I'm speaking generally about the perception of Xbox, not the specific reasons. No idea why you think I'm suggesting those are the exact thoughts of customers. Quite silly indeed.
Lucifers Beard
Member
I still cannot believe I bought one of these at launch because my friends wanted to buy into the platform, despite this horrendous showing.
The One X was a fantastic device but couldn't save that generation for them.
The One X was a fantastic device but couldn't save that generation for them.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Yeah. Like I said tho, totally different issues between the two generations. Series X’s issue isn’t a wild left field focus on Xbox-branded TV, or cable box functionality, or forced Kinect bundle, or or no functionality without internet that makes your console a brick.
It’s just straight up weak first-party lineup.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
My point was no one cares nor doesn’t buy Xbox because of a perceived “lack of confidence” in the brand, outside of the bubble of the gamer online forum community. Obviously.
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Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
The tiers! Not the tiers!
Topher
Gold Member
Yeah, but all these different issues still build negativity around the Xbox brand. If you don't think the negativity surrounding Xbox all these years has bearing on people not buying Xbox then we will just have to disagree.
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StereoVsn
Member
Oh, for sure. It was hilarious how quick Sony turned around that sharing video after the disastrous reveal. They were probably popping champagne in celebration.
Topher
Gold Member
Oh, for sure. It was hilarious how quick Sony turned around that sharing video after the disastrous reveal. They were probably popping champagne in celebration.
It was like the perfect storm. Between releasing PS4 for $100 less than Xbox One and the whole "this is how you share games on PS4" video......that's got to be one of the all-time great E3 beat downs.
StereoVsn
Member
Yep, and by then Kinect was over for the public AND Xbone was weaker hardware.
That was just so badly planned by MS, it’s mind boggling. What a fuckup.
DeVeAn
Member
End of the 360 era is where is started. The Xbox One reveal was terrible and I skipped it until I got a cheap One X. Problem after that has been 1st party exclusives and the last few games haven't delivered. I feel the only hope now is for them to lock down something with GTA 6 otherwise I don't see a comeback.
nial
Gold Member
The true demise of the Xbox brand as a whole arguably started in 2017, and the Xbox One X wasn't enough to save them at that point.I partly agree with this sentiment, but it's unfair to put the entire blame on that one launch.
Other companies (PS with PS3 and Nintendo with WiiU) also recovered from their failures successfully. And Xbox One actually sold really well for the first 2 years or so.
We were reading headlines like this one even in 2016, three years after the Xbox One launch. Most of the Xbox's self-inflicted problems came after that launch, I believe.
Xbox One Outsells PS4 for the Fourth Month in a Row
Aided by newly released shooters Gears of War 4 and Battlefield 1, Microsoft's Xbox One console outsold Sony's PS4 for the month of October 2016, making it four months in a row.
It did manage to remain competitive in 2021 and 2022 with the Xbox Series (mostly thanks to the S), when PS5 was heavily supply constrained, but oh boy, when we finally got to 2023, it *fucking* died, with no signs of recovery.
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bosnianpie
Member
Those were the days. Sony was doing everything right with the announcement of PS4 and MS came up with this. Riding that wave up until release of both consoles were really fun times.
DryvBy
Member
360 era really did it for me and I don't think they could have won me back over it. RROD and then years of this worthless crap.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
That was more hilarious to me than embarrassing. They were trying to go after the Wiis audience, since they didn't feel threatened by PS3. In the end, the PS3 still outsold the 360 and Microsoft had to take it deep, despite the spending spree against the Black Behemoth. in 2024, we're coming full circle, down the toilet. That is.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
To be fair, a GC is weaker than a Wii and whatever PC MS was running Forza Motorsport 5 on didn’t attempt to match up to real XBO hardware.
The Mac Pro tower (PPC) hardware they used pre-release for 360 did attempt to match the console’s specs apart from the dev build double RAM.
The first few years of XBO, each month or two there was a big discount or the latest major games bundled in, which at the time wasn’t typical.I partly agree with this sentiment, but it's unfair to put the entire blame on that one launch.
Other companies (PS with PS3 and Nintendo with WiiU) also recovered from their failures successfully. And Xbox One actually sold really well for the first 2 years or so.
We were reading headlines like this one even in 2016, three years after the Xbox One launch. Most of the Xbox's self-inflicted problems came after that launch, I believe.
Xbox One Outsells PS4 for the Fourth Month in a Row
Aided by newly released shooters Gears of War 4 and Battlefield 1, Microsoft's Xbox One console outsold Sony's PS4 for the month of October 2016, making it four months in a row.
Can’t tell if poop or hairy crack.It's been over a decade and we're still using this argument to justify Phil's incompetence ?
Xbox 3D Avatars signalled the internal transition to casual games for Kinect. The seed within Rare.
Little Chicken
Member
I liked how the tent had it's own twitter account.
Randall365
Member
Absolute fail. ‘The best thing about it is you can turn the TV on with your voice… but only in the US‘.
feynoob
Gold Member
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Not sure why I’m tagged in this. You’re not refuting anything I’m saying. You’re just talking about other things that don’t contradict anything I’ve said.
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iHaunter
Member
Doesn't help that XSX launched with 0 launch titles as well, falling on its face.
FIREKNIGHT2029
Member
Very true. Xbox has been falling from one disaster to the next since 2013. I’ve never seen a company succeed so much at sabotaging themselves as MS have done with Xbox.
Moriarty1889
Member
You are correct indeed sir. Xbox one had some good games from 2013 to 2015 in terms of exclusives. It launched with a solid lineup and with Titanfall, Sunset Overdrive and others it definitely had the games for the first few years of its lifespan. Then yes, Spencer went all in on gamepass later and that is what has ruined the Xbox brand.
Moriarty1889
Member
I will always remember Resolutiongate and the 720p vs 1080p games comparisons between Xbox One and PS4. Good times indeed and filled with much drama.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
Xbox used to be cool and it actually does suck how this moment legit killed them and they've never been able to course correct in over ten years since.
It's a also a reminder that even if Sarkeesian never happened and all the political in fighting never happened, the best days for gaming were still going to be behind us, which is an incredibly depressing thought.
You can see the shift in corporate attitude happening in real time, "core" gamers are boring, played out, who cares about those geeks? We want TV, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, TV and Grandma getting in on the action, Xbox and 360 had bad ass series like Halo and Gears of War, it was supposed to be the gamers gaming machine, instead it turns into this watered down crap with no real identity anymore and that's before politics made "gamer" be basically synonmous with the term "alt right" in the eyes of a lot of people, but already we can see companies like Microsoft simply stop giving a shit about us.
And the launch line up was so mid, the original Dead Rising is one of my all time favorite games, then 3 takes all the bright, colorful vibes that set it apart from other zombies games out?
Fundamentally, in the western sphere, gaming simply lost it's magic as we entered the 2010s, that's really all there is to it, the Woke brigade are akin to vultures coming to pick clean what was already a corpse.
It's a also a reminder that even if Sarkeesian never happened and all the political in fighting never happened, the best days for gaming were still going to be behind us, which is an incredibly depressing thought.
You can see the shift in corporate attitude happening in real time, "core" gamers are boring, played out, who cares about those geeks? We want TV, SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS, TV and Grandma getting in on the action, Xbox and 360 had bad ass series like Halo and Gears of War, it was supposed to be the gamers gaming machine, instead it turns into this watered down crap with no real identity anymore and that's before politics made "gamer" be basically synonmous with the term "alt right" in the eyes of a lot of people, but already we can see companies like Microsoft simply stop giving a shit about us.
And the launch line up was so mid, the original Dead Rising is one of my all time favorite games, then 3 takes all the bright, colorful vibes that set it apart from other zombies games out?
Fundamentally, in the western sphere, gaming simply lost it's magic as we entered the 2010s, that's really all there is to it, the Woke brigade are akin to vultures coming to pick clean what was already a corpse.
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Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
This is indeed where it starts, but post 2009 we had Halo Reach, Alan Wake (and it's DLC semi sequel), Fable III, Gears of War 3, Halo 4 and Gears of War Judgement, all Xbox games still very much within the classic wheelhouse.
But all that stuff was probably in the works already and it was running off momentum, what E3 2009 showed is that the leadership was already abandoning gamers, pure greed, rather than being happy with their audience they wanted MORE, MORE, MORE, not realizing the normie crowd would be 100% cannibalized by smartphones and tablets, Nintendo has success with it, but it was a trick that could only be pulled off in that pre iphone/ipad world and Microsoft were pure arrogant morons to not see that coming, no idiot was going to stand flailing their arms in front of a TV screen saying "XBOX TURN ON" after a point, they were going to be looking at their phone, in 2009 this should have already been obvious by 2013 this should have been REALLY obvious but leaders of a multi billion can somehow be pure fucking idiots with zero vision of the future.
sodstall
Member
Theres a "rhombus of ruin" joke in there somewhere
Raven117
Gold Member
LOL, the collective meltdown of the internet that day was just incredible.
And, yes, that was the beginning of the end for Xbox. Sure, they could have made some saving throws coming down off the 360 high, but none of them panned out. And they lost the most important generation in decades....the jump to digital.
And, yes, that was the beginning of the end for Xbox. Sure, they could have made some saving throws coming down off the 360 high, but none of them panned out. And they lost the most important generation in decades....the jump to digital.