Microsoft's First Xbox Console Left On The Scrapheap.

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has claimed that the release of the Xbox 360 has caused sales of the original Xbox to plummet to new lows.

Describing the 360's debut as "better than we expected", Pachter states in Wedbush Morgan's latest report that consumers were so eager to adopt Microsoft's new hardware that the Xbox died an early death.

[shortyNZ]

i would still buy the occasional XBOX game to play on 360, but the oes i would get still dont have patches out! like conker and a few others, i sold my old XBOX befor the 360 came out, most people who get a next gen console stop buying stuff for the old one tho thats just he way it is, ps2 and XBOX1 will probably make good cheap presents for the kiddies this xmas tho!

[2tired2day2hate]

this is one thing i disagree with ms about. they did basically turn their back on the original xbox. but at the same time alot of people wouldnt give it a chance.

[TheXgamerLive]

ps3 fan is such a little girl, he even post childish articles to hate and try to poo on something that's revolutionary and successful. I'll lose another bubble formthis but I really don't care b/c he act's like a little bit*h boy, in fact is picture, if you click on it looks like he's wearing make up. Like I said a BIT*H BOY. your a pathetic loser ps3 fan. I'm turning my back on this site for letting people like you spread false news around and it's ok with the site to just display it, well it's not ok, and I mean whether against any console, when it's just a story like DJ always puts on here and it's just becaused he's pissed that he post an anti XBOX 360 story and it's allowed, well F/U!

[Marty8370]

Microsoft has turned it's back on the Xbox,just like all the other developer's.That's one thing that Sony never does.XGamer truth hurts don't it.Face it Xbox is dead and burried,X360 will have the same fate.

[TheXgamerLive]

No Matter what you say, your still a little b*tch boy.

Sorry bout your lil asian penis n all making you hate the Xbox 360. What a f'in p*ssy you are.

Yeah yeah yeah, away with the bubbles, atleast I said your a loser and everyone knows it.

[Boink]

you just about had a sensible intelligent comment till you added the bit about the 360...so close, yet so far.

MS did turn their back on the xbox too quickly, there is no denying it. They also weren't making money on, so I can kind of see their reasoning behind it. Sony was actually making money on the ps2, so that's why they kept at it(since they definitely won't be making any with the ps3 anytime soon).

But after playing good games on my 360, I will not go back, even halo2 is done for me now(too many modders to make it worthwhile).

[zypher]

i guess thats one of the deciding differences between most Playstation fans and most XBox fans. i'm an admitted PS2 (soon to be PS3) fan true enough; however, except for the few times my system froze while playing Fable, i have never regretted purchasing my 360. i think it's a great system: not the best, but great nevertheless. and despite the hordes of hours i put into multi-playing in GRAW with my girlfriend, i still go back and play a couple of ours of Halo, Splinter Cell (until the newer one comes out in a couple of days) and Fable. so, i guess i can kinda see both sides of the argument. as a PS fan, i would say that Wedbush is decidedly 360-fanatical, for saying that the original XBox is failing because people were so eager to buy a 360 (when in fact, i'd argue that the original XBox is failing because Microsoft refuses to support it any longer). but as a 360 owner, i can say a) the original XBox costed Microsoft more money than it made them, and b) old is old, new is new; old is out, new is in.

[TheMART]

There is something different about changing to the future (360) and the scrapheap for XBOX 1.

Submitted by PS3 fan we know enough.

I'll tell you a story.

My PS2 with the broken DVD drive after just a year is on the scrapheap. My XBOX already running for 4 years is still in place besides my 360. And I play them both.

Now those are quality products, Sony got me raped again. And many of my friends. Even their PSP's with dead pixels. I wanted to buy one but I'm scared now by Sony products...

[Ravenator529]

Especially since I never owned an original XBox to begin with.

Why would I want them to waste their time with an outdated piece of equipment?

[OutLaw]

The time of the Xbox came and went and I had two of them. One was the original black system and the other was the green Halo edition.

But just like boink said after playing good games on my 360, I will not go back either.

[LegendaryMark]

The first Xbox was really about establishing a brand, now that Microsoft have succeeded in doing so they want everyone to go next-gen and buy the games to match. They certainly woouldn't have drawn a profit from the Xbox 1, so while it kinda sucks that they don't support it any more, it makes sense since they have more of a chance of drawing a profit from the 360.

Oh and XGamer, I don't really think you can call this "false news" when it's from a Wedbush Morgan analyst and is backed up by hard evidence! Surely if anything, this is a PRO-360 story, it reports how well the 360 is doing compared to expectations!

And to PS3 Fan, I think boink said it best. You were so close! But even if you meant it in a bad way, it isn't really. Every console of this generation will be dead and buried (including your precious PS3). Success is judged merely on how long that takes!

[Watapata]

The idea behind not giving up on a system is not that the people that upgraded to the newest generation will still be able to play theirs, but that the people who can't afford the newest generation and perhaps didn't get in on the last generation can finally give it a go at a lower price point. Although the XBox still loses money for Microsoft on every unit sold, it would still bring in extra software sales that may not be there otherwise. As far as the 360 suffering the same fate, I think it likely will once the following generation starts, but not before then.

[InMyOpinion]

"Microsoft has turned it's back on the Xbox,just like all the other developer's.That's one thing that Sony never does."

Sony turns their back on the consumers instead. You won't get the same service from Sony as you get with Microsoft.
It's always the same thing when a new machine arrives, no one buys the predecessor. Everyone wants whats new. How many people will buy a Ps2 when the Ps3 is available?

[Watapata]

Consider that PS2 has been outselling the 360 virtually every single month since the 360's release...

[THWIP]

Consider that:
1.) That was primarily in Sony territory, a.k.a. Japan.
2.) People who are just now buying a PS2 likely aren't hardcore gamers, and not apt to buy a 360 OR a PS3...so your point is irrelevant.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Look, I know everyone feels MS turned their back on the Xbox, but it was a smart business decision on their part in looking to the future. If they supported the original Xbox it would also compete with the 360 for sales just as the PS2, and game cube did all last year. Developers will still make some games for the xbox but it wont be supported like the PS2 because that base is not nearly as large.

Sony is going to find that the PS2 will be a god send and a demon all in one breath. With such a large base, and so many good titles coming to the PS2 still....I think you will find that there will be a much slower transition from PS2 then PS3 as Sony hoped for. And with that slow transition, consumers are going to be able to give a long hard look at the PS3, 360 and Wii to make a more educated buy. Sony really needs to drop their 1st party support of the PS2 as soon as they can to force their huge base to make that transition. In other words....God of War 2 should have been a PS3 EXCLUSIVE not on PS2.

[Watapata]

Your transition theory fails to account for the extremely rapid transition from the original PlayStation to the PS2 and that the PlayStation still sold relatively well for a while after the PS2's launch.

[THWIP]

MS did the right thing ; Sony is f***ing gamers by supporting/pushing the PS2 as long as they have. Why? Very simple: cross-platform development. All your major publishers do it...EA, Ubi, Activision... they whore out their games on every platform imaginable, as long as they feel they can profit from each platform. All of last-gen, every game that was released cross-platform, suffered (at least graphically) by the LCD (Lowest Common Denominator) PS2 hardware. Sony fanboys could never accept it, but it's the truth, and every game reviewer from every magazine/website has stated as much for the past few years.
Now, with the first year of the 360, we're STILL getting backwash from last-gen, and it's ruined several highly-anticipated titles...and more yet to come: Hitman:Bloodmoney, The Godfather, most sports games, Superman Returns, Just Cause, Tomb Raider Legend, King Kong....and several more. All of these games are mere ports of XBOX/PS2-based games, with slightly better graphics. Sure, you can blame the publishers, but you also have to blame the hardware mfgrs (Sony) that continue to push inferior, outdated technology. Of course, in the case of the PS2, it was inferior and outdated, the day it hit the shelves.....but that's for a whole different discussion.

The only knock against MS, is that they didn't just stop production on the XBOX sooner, and drop the price to $99. That would've moved alot more units in the last year, while cutting costs.

[sman780]

the article is news, whether u liked it or not. it is true first xbox sucked baaalllss and i camped out for it, halo and fable, basically only two games that make there losses not as bad lol.
the mart, you are a terrible xbox fan its sickening, when these two websites combined i knew this garbage would happen its sad.

all systems offer different things for different people so u can argue forever like u people do, but what i see?? i see gamers on this website everyday like me, posting and reading articles and some fighting everyday, but thing is, ur all gamers. hardcore gamers for the most part, and this next-gen lol no doubt in any body's mind the hardcore gamer system IS the PS3 bottem line. dont feed me ur, "to much money crap", because ur a hardcore gamer, and you want the best and u have to pay for it. u know the ps3 system wise, is better then 360 and u know developers will have to adopt to it and will. i have a 360 i sent it in friday for the 3rd time, the 3rd time it broke on me, and almost a year now maybe two good titles are out? pure disappointment.

[THWIP]

...someone might actually care what you think. You fail at making a point, making sense, or even posting valid information. That you "camped out" for a console, and think Halo and Fable were the "only 2 games" worth playing, further shows your ignorance, and sheer lack of good taste. Here's a short list of what made XBOX worthwhile:
- Morrowind
- Thief: Deadly Shadows
- Crimson Skies
- Breakdown
- Chronicles of Riddick: EFBB
- GTA series (all better on the XBOX, than on PS2)
- Forza
- Halo 1 & 2 (though I'm not a huge fan)
- Fable (the Lost Chapters made it more complete)
- Panzer Dragoon Orta
- Mechassault 1 & 2

** Every cross-platform game was superior on XBOX
*** Online play for all cross-platform games were superior on LIVE

[FlamingTide]

I can't believe non of you has realised that this is just simply the way things work. If a better and newer machine is out people are obliviously going to buy it instead of the old

[sman780]

sorry you dont like the way i type but u understand it. all i'm saying is people argue on every article there is on this website since they combined them, and i'm stating my camp out as me not being a hardcore playstation fan and as the article is about mass loss for a console that was pretty bad, controller wise, weight wise, u needed a dvd remote to play movies? it goes on and on and all systems have there bad sides.
but true it deffenantly got xbox's name out there, and no doubt there wouldnt be this 360 success if it wasn't for the first xbox. u make a point at the publishers, and god of war 2 should have deff came to ps3, but yah there trying to juice out as much money as possible, uh duhhh, what company isnt??? lol microsoft, nintendo, and sony, they all do it, microsoft clearly has the most, and they are obviously throwing that weight advantage around, and it mite work. no one knows yet, so why waste time argueing everyday on here, about peoples stubbern fanboyism opionons?? the answer, you don't.

[Say's you]

They said that the Xbox 360 is doing better as they expected yeah right highly doubt that coming from there mouths lol knowing all of those journalists are probably Xbox 360 fans thats why thier's alot of fake good news about the 360 when in reality that can't happen

and thats why alot of those journalist are mostly gamers themselve's and Xbox 360 fans and make up alot of those bad news about Sony thats not even close to true but some are