Well, with the next generation of console gaming approaching, it’s time for a Retrospective. This past generation of video gaming has been quite the roller-coaster, with highs like “The New Xbox Experience”, which added avatars to Xbox LIVE, an updated user-interface, and the ability to install game discs to the hard drive, as well as many lows, such as “The Playstation Network Outage”, when millions of Playstation Network Accounts were stolen in an “External Intrusion”, which led to the shutting down of the network entirely for close to a month.
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
It's been 20 years to the day since Xbox Live brought online play to consoles.
I remember when Live turned five and they had special edition controllers made and everything. Kind of wished they would do that again for the 20th.
Happy Birthday. OG XBL (and later 360 XBL) really revolutionized online gaming on console.
Never understood the obsession with live...but I was gaming online on PC so not sure too much of what live did that the PlayStation didn't.
Today would of been the perfect day to drop halo 2 the original bc version free on gwg.... If only
Xbox Live 1.0, the first instance of online servers for the original Xbox, is set to return via Insignia, a free third-party service that's currently compatible with 20 titles, such as Call of Duty: Finest Hour and Counter-Strike.
Well I haven't missed out much skipping Xbox this gen. I doubt Xbox only owners can say the same. I've never owned an Xbox. There's just nothing so appealing on Xbox 360 to make me go out and buy one.
pc is still better.
On topic ps3 was the better system for as i mostly game on pc , ps3 complemented it perfectly.
I have both systems and I am glad. Great games on both sides and I am glad I am able to play them. My top 5 games on each systems that I currently owns are as follows:
PS4: TLOU, the Uncharted trilogy, Valkyria Chronicles, God of War 3, Demon's Soul
X360: Crackdown, Lost Odyssey, Gears of War Trilogy, Halo Wars, Alan Wake.
That is why I will eventually end up with both the XB1 and PS4 this gen. Too many great games are coming that can only to played on either a XB1 or PS4.
Anybody else notice that Microsoft's Green and Sony's Blue are for their main button used to select things? (Xbox A & PS X)