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XBOX to XONE timeline infographic.
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Storm Raider
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Blue-ray
Impeccable
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That's one hell of an advertisment.
speedlolita
Member
Starting off strong with Halo: Combat Evolved and going gradually downhill. An exaggeration, but nothing since then has impacted me as significantly as Halo did from Microsoft and their hardware.
Trying to figure out what that 8GB on the original Xbox is actually referring to - and I developed on the damn thing! Maximum DVD size?
gigantor21
Member
Wait, the original Xbox had 8GB of memory too? WTF was the big deal about the new consoles getting it then?
I'm sure they meant storage space and not memory, LOL
protomouse
Member
Yeah, that's like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Internal HDD.
OG Xbox was a beast of its time. Halo is one of the most monumental launch titles as well.
NinjamicWZ
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Hard drive?
Primethius
Banned
I think it's the HDD size.
Cause it can't do 1080p
Possibly the minimum Hard Drive size?
I know all Xbox OGs came with one, unlike the Xbox 360.
Leafhopper
Banned
An infographic by people that can't differentiate between Hard disk space and memory /RAM.
I dunno.
I dunno.
speedlolita
Member
The Xbox was available with a 8GB and 10GB HDD depending on revision.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Well RAM is random access memory, and memory is memory. You can call storage disk memory. Memory has just become synonymous with RAM.
It had the 8gb hard drive. Not that developers really used that.
lol the old infographic person must be on vacation
It's not an infographic made by MS
Dr_LucienSanchez
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I was expecting something by the phil spencer infograph master. This isn't nearly as exciting.
Perfect!
Perfect!
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Well, Stranger's Wrath was much better than Munch's Oddysee but Ed Fries went bye-bye, Microsoft got cold feet and EA ended up publishing it instead. And they didn't do a very good job of it.
Off-Kilter
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Did nobody bother proofreading this?
lol @ Blue-ray
lol @ Blue-ray
also halo for xbox was unveiled in march 2001 at Gamestock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKv6UeejzOs
(here's the presentation...)
and the xbox itself was unveiled at CES 2001, not GDC. The console was announced at GDC 1999 with tech "renders"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKv6UeejzOs
(here's the presentation...)
and the xbox itself was unveiled at CES 2001, not GDC. The console was announced at GDC 1999 with tech "renders"
NerdEyeBlind
Member
Neat graphic but they forgot the part where they backed HD-DVD 
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
User-available free space was the same no matter the physical capacity however.
There were mods though.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
i think the last quote is what makes this infographic really memorable
speedlolita
Member
Very true. Did any games take advantage of the HDD like the PlayStation 2 did on certain titles?
Yeah it has to be the HDD size.
2007: 3 million Xbox Live subscribers
2009: 20 million Xbox Live subscribers
hmmm
First figure they are using gold numbers, i guess. http://ca.ign.com/articles/2007/03/06/gdc-2007-microsoft-ascends-to-6-million-live-users
second one is gold+silver?
consistency, damnit!
also... Microsoft announced Xbox Live hitting 1 million users in July, 2004... not september
2009: 20 million Xbox Live subscribers
hmmm
First figure they are using gold numbers, i guess. http://ca.ign.com/articles/2007/03/06/gdc-2007-microsoft-ascends-to-6-million-live-users
second one is gold+silver?
consistency, damnit!
also... Microsoft announced Xbox Live hitting 1 million users in July, 2004... not september
fargofallout
Member
I came here expecting that as well. Much less interesting this way.
IAmRandom31
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always surprising to be reminded that the Xbox came out in 2001 and the 360 came out in 2005.
Just a very short 4 year turnaround cycle. Only reason 360 stuck around so long was due to it selling so well.
Wouldnt be shocked at a 2017/2018 release of the X2
Just a very short 4 year turnaround cycle. Only reason 360 stuck around so long was due to it selling so well.
Wouldnt be shocked at a 2017/2018 release of the X2
pretty sure Ninja Gaiden caches stuff to the HDD (forgive me if my terminology/tech term is off, I just remember reading that somewhere.)
fun fact: the original xbox also has extra ram slots, which you can add more ram too. but I seem to remember people saying they couldn't be utilized/games didn't improve.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Did they take the knife to the PR department?
Because gatdamn at that infograph. Amateurish doesn't begin to cover it...
Because gatdamn at that infograph. Amateurish doesn't begin to cover it...
speedlolita
Member
You can double the RAM and install a faster processor if you like. You may be right about games not benefiting from this though. I know homebrew stuff does.
Yeah MS knows how to move on fast
the entire reason for the quick disappearance of the original Xbox was Nvidia.
miDnIghtEr20C
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Trying too hard in an Xbox timeline thread.
8 gig memory has to be hard drive? Or they just straight up goofed this thing.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
And nothing is heard of of the HD-DVD drive ever again.
Also 2011 was the year where Microsoft basically "ruined" themselves by stupidly focusing almost entirely on Kinect.
The 360 was an AWESOME console, but when the Kinect came they basically gave their lead to Sony.
Still love both consoles, but it was such a stupid move.
Also 2011 was the year where Microsoft basically "ruined" themselves by stupidly focusing almost entirely on Kinect.
The 360 was an AWESOME console, but when the Kinect came they basically gave their lead to Sony.
Still love both consoles, but it was such a stupid move.
LOL
forgot that gen was all about "[X]-killer"
mostly "halo-killer."
Brute Force: The Halo-killer?
Pariah: The Halo-killer?
Killzone: Sony's Halo-killer?
PS2/Xbox/GC Gen Spoilers:
nothing killed halo and all those games were ass
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