Yesterday we celebrated Xbox's 22nd birthday - yep, the big green machine is now 22 years of age, as is the Xbox brand as a whole! As you'd probably expect, some of Xbox's public-facing execs have commented on the big anniversary too, and we're feeling all warm and fuzzy inside thinking back to the original console and the impact Xbox has had on gaming since.
Speaking of that OG box, the "father of Xbox" Seamus Blackley has made a brief comment on the anniversary, along with the likes of Major Nelson, Aaron Greenberg and others. Here are few of the team's most prominent messages:
The console and its legacy have had a major impact on people outside of Microsoft too, of course. Yesterday, we started reminiscing about some amazing original Xbox launch day footage that surfaced a few years ago - stuff like this is so heartwarming and we can't help but keep re-watching it!
Here's to many more Xbox consoles, and many more years of gaming as part of team green.
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I loved the original Xbox. I already had a GameCube when I got one, and it was just night and day better. Later I also got a PS2 (this was the start of me owning all big 3 consoles each generation) and yeah it had some nice exclusives, but mutliplat games were so much better on Xbox. I remember playing FIFA on both, glitchy and with slowdown on PS2, super smooth on Xbox.
Sadly the future doesn’t look so great. The sales figures, Game Pass subs and game sales are falling too often.
Thankfully, MS have pretty bottomless pockets so they can sustain the losses but even with Acti/Blizzard I just can’t see Game Pass subs growing enough.
Even a nearly 7 years old system has over 89 million Switch online subscribers.
PlayStation brand is so powerful that it could release a pile of crap and it would still sell - see PS Portal.
@x3King84 The marketing in the UK is almost non existent compared to Switch and PlayStation. It’s bizarre to have a great product and not market it at all.
Such a cool looking console. I’ve actually been thinking about getting one recently to be honest because I never had one.
I had for less than 22 days lol. Never understood the whole hard drive thing (new to a console), while most games that interested me were on PS2 already.
@BaldBelper78
Now that you mention it, I can not recall the last time I saw any Xbox advertisement in my area (Glasgow), be it TV or even posters and billboards in the city. Nintendo ads are always on TV and PlayStation has had massive billboards for exclusives - heck there was a huge Kratos and son looming over Glasgow Central Station last year when GoW Ragnarok was being released.
Xbox needs to step it up.
@x3King84 i hate to say it but i actually like xbox phasing into a service and having their games on PC , i still feel like i’m part of their ecosystem with my account linked and i use their controller so , yea..
but on the flip side xbox IS the place to play if you’re not into any exclusives and want the best third party console machine . it’s a shame the ps5 has it beat in sales right now , especially when their exclusives are just more of the same cinematic walking simulator trash. the series X is more powerful, more features, and overall closer to a PC than the ps5 is .
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