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I feel they’ve never recovered from the Xbox One reveal in 2013.

To me, Xbox started going downhill in 2010 with the release of the Kinect. Microsoft turned their backs on their core audience and then chose to double down with the botched announcement of the Xbox One. This planted them firmly at the bottom of the pile when it came to gaming reputation. Around the middle of the 2010s, Microsoft gave up on matching Sony and Nintendo for console sales and integrated with PC. A good move to make their games more accessible, but they didn't back this up with solid new IPs. Coming up to today, Microsoft arguably hasn't had a new killer app since Gears of War. They insist on pushing game pass and buying up developers without putting in the hard work and substance into their exclusives. All told, Xbox just feels hollow nowadays, lacking identity and soul.

I think you’re spot on here, I feel like an old man saying things were better in 2007 - but it’s right. Redfall was a great example of what’s wrong with Xbox at the moment - they’re just in it to get paid and gamepass does that so why try harder

Xbox has never recovered from 2013

Halo died. That's what happened.

No year in gaming will ever top 2007. Halo 3, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Orange Box, Mario Galaxy, Crysis, CoD4, Metroid Prime 3, Assassin's Creed, R&C Tools of Destruction, Uncharted and Rock Band just to name a few

Gaming from 1996-2012 was just an absolute golden age

Saying that Banjo & Kazooie nuts and bolts had fans is really pushing it lmao

I really hope this Xbox showcase knocks it out of the park, cuz damn you're 100% right. Xbox lost their way so badly in many ways, it's so unfortunate. Once they changed the Xbox 360 boot animation for when the Kinect launched, that is where it started. I play across all the platforms, and it really sucks to see where Xbox is now. I know it's bad when one of my reasons I support stuff like for example, Atlus releasing Persona for the first time on Xbox, is out of pity (aside from loving Atlus games and how weird it is to see more on Xbox lmao). Good to see third party support getting better, even if some are doomed to sell poorly, but I really wanna see strong first party games again. Nearly everything they push out now looks so uninteresting, with few exceptions that they consider not as important for some reason. Just like you said, Hi-Fi Rush!

You hit on something here: Games coming out with problems, broken, or unfinished. This is Hugely a Leadership problem with Microsoft

This aged marvelously, they’re even handing out their exclusives now.

Starfield is going to suck, and at this point there is no one to blame but these idiots that pre-order AAA games. The entire reason that pre-orders existed in the first place was so that GameStop could reserve a physical copy for you and you didn't run the risk of the game selling out. At this point with video games being all digital, there is literally no reason to pre-order a game.

There was a time back in the late part of the 6th gen when I would visit friends who had an original Xbox (I was more of a PS2/GC guy) and had tons of fun with an exclusive library of games that were not only good, but gave a whole different vibe to what I was used to, similar to what the Dreamcast did in 1999. They kept that ball rolling nicely until the middle of the 7th gen when it just stopped. I still wonder why they lost trust in the winning formula that had been building up Ws for them since the og Xbox and forced themselves to try other stuff.

Man you nailed this video. It kills me that I constantly get called a Pony for criticizing MS for these same reasons. Man I just want good games regardless of platform!

It’s called gaming. It’s all about the games. It’s as simple as that.

Yeah its such a shame that xbox has gone downhill but even though I'm mostly a PlayStation guy, I love the Xbox 360 because it has awesome games with best graphics, the controller design is comfortable and smooth, I love the startup sound and UI, and it has backwards compatibility meaning that you can play any original xbox games on the 360, and speaking of backward compatibility you can even play any 360 games on the Xbox one or series X/S. I really wish that ps4 and 5 has backwards compatible so you can play any ps1, 2, or 3 games.

Crazy that Xbox has been bad longer than it has been good.

I love my Series X as a peice if hardware, but I'm seriously losing faith in XB to deliver the quality I grew up with 😕. Whiffing Infinite so hard is so frustrating to me. Halo is literally the only reason I purchased the XBO and XBSX instead of a PS or Nintendo console

I would say 30 percent of xbox 360 users moved to ps4. Which was HUGE

As a sworn xbox loyalist from my teen years I think you hit alot of good points here. I was one of the people who fell out in the xbone gen. I think one thing you failed to mention was WHY they were so gung-ho about the Kinect, it sold VERY well and the shareholders assumed this is what people wanted more of and they MISSED. Also how xbox initially soured consumers with the ALWAYS ONLINE and no TRADING concepts. (At the time no one was ready for, but funny how now in order to get ya gamepass you are essentially renting and need that online connection) Xbox has lost its way, something die hard fans can't admit. The xbox console is dead, now its a Microsoft service akin to spotify. Which is convenient, but the fact you never really own anything just doesn't sit well with me personally. We'll see how this ecosystem of gaming they are going for is really the benefit of people who enjoy games or just a facade for market control

Realeasing their exclusives onto PC killed of the Xbox.

Bill too busy lowering population growth than worrying about making Xbox Great Again

The ps3 online wasn't bad at all. Worked great although didn't have party chat 😢. But it was free and made people have to talk to other people. And cuz it was free, it was a wild wild west on there. The things u could say. But ya it was only like a year and the online was working good and was free to play

I do hope Microsoft competes with Xbox like they did with the 360. It put Sony on its toes to push to become what it is today. My big fear now is game pass which like any streaming service is not sustainable especially if devs don’t want to put in game pass because of low $$. Even Microsoft knw its almost capped with subscribers and isn’t growing as much anymore. They need to support an ecosystem like console and exclusive games to attract and really that’s it. It’s like releasing something good quality is harder than game pass lol

The new leak shows what we all feared. Killing discs and playing catch-up. I'm done with Xbox.

Xbox has been trash for like 13 years. It wasn't just the Xbone that killed it. The last few years of the 360 sucked.

Im a PlayStation guy and ive always thought Halo was incredibly overrated (though i loved 4) and associated Xbox with Bro-shooters with protagonists the size of refrigerators... and thats it. But you cannot deny what MS brought to the table with the Original Xbox (and the 360) and Xbox live. I really hope they fully get back on their feet.

In my opinion Xbox buying studios seems to ruin them. Because when these studios are owned by a giant company like Xbox they don’t even have to try because “daddy microsoft will pay our bills we don’t have to try as long as something gets made”

I think the problem is the lack of exclusive IPs that they have, Sony and Nintendo have awesome exclusives. (Some of Sony's IPs are coming to Steam, which is awesome)

The 360 had so so many good games. Ive kept my system just to play em all

Another layer of this is how Microsoft screwed up Minecraft so bad. Such a monumental game is now fading out of the public eye because they're too focused on marketplace coins than finding some way to revamp multi-player.

Great vid! Hopefully the Xbox showcase in A few days is one long time fans can be excited about for the weeks to come.

I quite literally (and also a couple friends) also bought an XB1 console solely for MCC. Such a shame!

Xbox series X and S literally made things worse for Microsoft. The S was just supposed to the disc-less version of the X but they literally downgraded the specs instead. They're not making interesting exclusives anymore (since Xbox one) and think buying big game studios will change the trend. Their software specs overall usually don't handle big games as expected.

I was a ps1/ps2 kid growing up and eventually playing online games on the ps2 shortly after it came out, to leaving ps3 behind for 360 with friends, but just recently went back to ps5 due to just better games (imo), they are both great consoles but the games just aint there any more

Good video, bro. with hindsight, I think it's clear that Microsoft would have folded xbox years ago if it wasn't for that little fps that a small developer made back in 2001.

I might sound like a broken record but back then on Xbox 360 was such a charm for its era. So many great games came out and the menu start up was a memorable experience never left you at all. Even the layout was the best.. now on Xbox one it’s just doesn’t have the type of feeling it once had and moving on to Xbox series X/s it’s like the same thing basically expect w a few new animations/sounds.. even the games are so lacking to me with being unbroken release day. The only few games I enjoy was forza horizon and halo mmc but most of the time I mostly on gamepass playing older game titles from 360 or just try new games out mostly indie games. I just wish Microsoft had that feeling again.

For the record, Ryse: Son of Rome fucking rules

Fantastic video! Wonder what you'd have in store for the latest news/rumours regarding Xbox.

7:12 Burger King's "Sneak King" was number 3? Man, I did not expect that lol

Younger, less experienced people move up the corporate ladder and gut everything magical and meaningful. Same thing happened with the music industry.

The big money keeps going into sequels and because they are sequels there’s a limited new experience involved. The golden age for me was the Xbox 360 years 2007 to 2012.

This video made me realize I played a good amount of shovelware lol avatar legends being one of them my friend and I spent hours making custom stories in that game. 360 indie was a game changer because some gems were in there

Xbox itself killed xbox

I'm just happy I have Persona now

Halo 2 was amazing!! I also loved how you could store music and listen as you play. Ahhh the good ol days

I went from xbox back to PS once they started putting ads on the 360 home screen. They sold out their customers. They deserve to fail

Xbox just keeps failing. 😅

Over here playing starfield. Must suck to not be able to play it

I like that you included the trailers from the og Xbox live. I remember them from the “game demos” section in the original halo

>From a leader in gaming to just peddling a subscription service They were never the leader of gaming and the subscriptions service were a thing since the first Xbox.

Really well written video that articulates a lot of what's wrong in the current era. I think it's great that Xbox has decided to make games more available to more people across more platforms and devices, but it's come at the cost of the Xbox brand and really taking first party seriously to truly be competitive. It's hard not to feel a sense of complacency (they do have more money than god so it's not necessarily life or death for MS.) There's a certain wisdom to Xbox deciding to pivot to focus on their strength, which has historically been services, rather than butt heads with PlayStation who is so far ahead that at this point, it's practically moot anyway. But again, it feels like they've left their core constituency behind in pursuit of growing Game Pass subs. Game Pass is a great service, but there's a problem when its finest offerings are often third-party games already available elsewhere. They've opened the floodgates of industry consolidation with all their acquisitions, which I think is only going to hurt gaming in the long run, but we haven't even seen this bear much fruit for Xbox anyway. It's a really soulless and cynical way of addressing their poor games portfolio, when they have the resources to open brand new studios with new talent who could create new things to rival or surpass experiences like Halo and define our times now. It's a real bummer and it's hard not to feel like I am constantly missing out on games that skip the platform, third party or otherwise. I stuck with Xbox because I built my digital library in its ecosystem and I've invested so much over well over a decade at this point. But I suspect I'd be much happier on other platforms.

Xbox been up since current gen released. This video should really be about playstation and wtf they are doing😂

it all happaned with the xbox one. they went from focusing on video games to making a vcr box. a streaming box for movies and tv and videos. and not making good exclusives anymore. they just give up. they need to stick with ips and take community feedback

First parties may be struggling (Save for Minecraft and Forza) but there are a lot of indies and third parties that are really good!

Short answer: Greed and lack of games And sony is heading the same direction.

What about the Xbox PC app. If Microsoft was at all taking this seriously, they'd make that damn thing work. The new update managed to lose my games folder and constantly wants the Gaming Services app to install. Its an unusable mess and nobody seems to know how to fix it or seems to care. Loads of people are having this problem and its still yet to be fixed. Its been like this for two months now.

As a capitalist i recommend that Xbox has to evolve to survive or we might see SEGA 2.0 destiny. Here are 9 things that would really help: 1) Future Xbox exclusives have to remain exclusive on Xbox for a bare minimum of 1 year before porting it to PC. This way it gives the devs. time to patch up & fix bugs before porting decent ports for PC instead of wasting time on all ends to fix their mess. 2) Acquire more Japanese studios so that Asian market gets on board with Xbox ( platinum games, Grasshopper Manufacture / SUDA51, SNK, SEGA ) 3) Open up developer studios, that their main job would be to remake or remaster or reboot classic Xbox IP's such as: Blinx, Brute Force, Bloodwake, Azurik, Crimson Skies, Mechassault etc. 4) Strike a deal with Nintendo to remake classic Rare ltd. original IP's from SNES & Nintendo 64 era. Split the costs of development & profits 50/50, and have them released on future Xbox & Nintendo consoles simultaneously 5) Offer Nintendo, OG Xbox for their virtual console program on their e-shop and split the costs & profits 50/50 6) Hire competent quality control, based on skills and not on diversity & equity 7) Microsoft besides their operating system, need to open up to another market. Either as electronics manufacturer like SONY or as entertainment business like Apple. Whatever they would choose make it in sync with Xbox and Windows OS & sell it as "better experience, together with our other products" 8) Get Bill Gates out of World Health Organization, United Nations & Economic Forum and get that man back to focus on Microsoft, and bring him back as THE figurehead of Microsoft & Xbox where he jumps over chairs and hangs around with The Rock 9) Host regular events across the globe for more exposure: e-sports, charity, electronic innovations expos etc.

Really hope Starfield succeeds and break this trend. My coworker is a huge Xbox fan and I think this will take him out of gaming for good if it ends up flopping.

Ill never get rid of my og Xbox or 360, those game me some of my favorite gaming memories ever.

We want games,not a subscription to play them

I was a Microsoft fan boy til the red ring of death on my 360 switched to Sony and I haven't looked back since..except to pick up a Nintendo Switch.

Xbox was always trash, we can thank it for paid online in every console.

Microsoft focusing on chasing microtransactions and live services and trying to beat out CoD for the holiday rush is what happened to Xbox. Microsoft has forgotten how to make finished, enjoyable games.

The first and only time an exclusive sold me a system was KOTOR in 2003. That game was just that dang good. OG XBOX ended up being my favorite console of that generation.

The industry has changed over the years ,these days it seems like there's no multiplayer game that doesn't have battle pass and mtx.I blame mostly EA but players are in the same boat. The golden days of xbox and xbox360 will be forever remembered.

Honestly out of all the things I’d like most number 1 obviously is more/great exclusive games and i understand most people have mostly gone digital but it would be great if you could just use the disc once to install and then put it away and only need it again if you needed to reinstall, I’m sure it would have been very easy for Xbox to implement that.

What happened to Xbox? Two words...Phil Spencer. Sat in on a meeting with him during the 360s days and it was obvious just how out of touch he was with the audience.

Biggest kicker to Xbox is that every single exclusive is on pc. Why would anyone buy an Xbox when any established adult has a PC already. Spend the money on upgrading that computer and the consoles with actual exclusives.

Xbox is experiencing the severe burnout most of gamers have been going through for 10 to 20 years now.

The only thing that stopping me from getting both a playstation five and a Xbox Series S or X Is the stupid subscription service? I don't want to pay $300 a year for Xbox live and PlayStation plus. That's why I chose PlayStation 5 only.

Very nice video, I hope Xbox pulls it together at the end, but I’m loosing hope after that Phil Spencer Interview….

Boring to bad exclusives that are always going on PC, nonstop Game Pass advertisements, and buying studios just to not put them to use and build up exclusives is what is killing Xbox

15:23 My channel was built off of Happy Wars and seeing it referenced here is just something else. Like wow. I was taken back a bit.

You might have missed a bit of controversy around the xbox one. Back when i was on the 360 the xbox one was revealed not able to play used games for a "performance or graphics boost" but most of my friends on the system knew what they were trying to do. Stop the resale of used games. This intern made me switch to pc instead since the first sale doctrine is like a thing that everything should be a part of. Come to think of it i remember Sony taking a jab at Microsoft in a PS4 skit. Even though they never implemented the DRM they never recovered publicly from that.

I switched from Playstation to Xbox this generation. Xbox has more backwards compatibility options than playstation, and despite playstation bringing their A game to their current gen stuff more consistently, being able to revisit older gen games on current hardware is a huge selling point to me.

I also miss the old Xbox and ps1 /ps2 Era.. those were perfect time to be a gamer

damn that intro hit and made me feel old

I’m fine with Xbox but Wii sports is the best game of that era

honestly gaming in general has lost its way its not just xbox

Halo, Munch's Odyssey, Fable and JSRF were my jam back in the day. I'm old...

I miss the 360 days, I grew up having the original Xbox and lived through XBL with the 360. Now Im on PC and I replay all my 360 games at prettier graphics and higher frames. I miss how games used to be good and fun

As a “Sony Pony”, this is…. Startling for me too. Sony is going into a HUGE quality dip when they dominate their corner of the market.

Grew up playing xbox, switched to playstation when the playstation 4 came out only because i had more friends playing it but i never changed back. I'm tempted for the first time to buy an xbox now with starfield and the new fable.

Yup. I made the switch from xbox 360 to Playstation 4 precidely because of the games. There were just more options on Playstation. Broke my heart to do it, but I have no regrets. There are very few Xbox exclusive games (if any) that I have been wanting to play....

This happens when a "lion" has too much food to eat and in turn, he doesn't try as hard anymore.

Halo and modern warfare carried them.

I actually purchased a used 360 and started playing some great shit I missed out on like Alan wake halo 3 and forza 2. Such a good system, if you get the facelift model and not the red ring iteration. I also didn’t think halo 4 was that bad, I enjoyed the single player campaign, but I’m not a diehard halo fan so maybe I missed why it wasn’t liked… the original Xbox was a great system too, bought one of those in 2006 and enjoyed halo 2 forza 1 and strangers wraith on it… graphics were a lot better than ps2 imo, at least when it came to exclusives.

We have a product for those without an internet connection. It's called the Xbox 360. That one line sealed their fate.

I remember being a PlayStation fan back on the 7th gen most people I knew in middle school were Xbox fans and the heat we got was brutal. Xbox had better online features, better games and exclusive deals. Halo 3 was the reason I almost decided to get an Xbox when it first came out, but at end I stood with PlayStation which I’m still glad

I recently tried nuts and bolts for the first time. I thought it was awful. A real shame as I loved kazooie and tooie

People do not want to admit but Gamepass is a big problem as to why the Xbox output has been so underwhelming. The focus of Xbox is to sell subscriptions, not good games, an entirely different business model than Sony and Nintendo. Sure they might occasionally get a great game but it's not something you should have high hopes for. Knowing Bethesda and after all the delays, Starfield is going down the same road as Cyberpunk 2077. Generate hype, lie and then sell the garbage product... rinse and repeat.

Banger of a video!

When the OG XBOX came out it was a game changer and IMO the best thing about it was that you could listen to your own music while playing a game

Yeah i lost faith in xbox its nothing speical or good about it im switching to playstation its just better.

Man xbox been catching mad Ws since this video came out

Whats the background music around 20:30

This is hilarious ive been playing on gamepass ultimate for a year now and i dont see myself stopping ever.

4:58..... that racing game is an OG Xbox game?? Dang that really looks better than some games now...