The Fall of Xbox - Video by Videogamedunkey

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Azzanation said:

Sarkar said:

Foot off the pedal? They never had it on the pedal. The initial success 360 enjoyed was all thanks to PS3 releasing a year late at a ridiculous price. If not for that 360 would've done just as badly as everything else MS has released in the consumer market. 

Xbox as an entire devision last gen was performing better than Playstation across the board.

Yes even on the 1st party games front Xbox was doing better. The 360 earnt its strips and it definitely didnt help that the PS3 fell over at launch. Similar to this gen with PS4 feeding off XB1 and WiiU's underperforming launches.

To say that last Gen Xbox was great across the board is some strong revisionist history which would have to ignore the fact that every single non HDMI Xbox360 is pretty much landfill fodder today because of the $1b+ costing RROD disaster, E74, Faulty scratching disk drives, non reading Xbox360 slim disc drives... I mean, from a hardware point of view the X360 was powerful but terrible in reliability.

The end of (or from the middle of) last gen MS and XB as a division also turned their back on the core side of gaming and chased hard for the Blue Ocean that the wii was swimming in with the hard push @ Kinect which not only torpedo'd the end of last gen for them but completely ruined the start of this generation for them.

Like I say though... to look back on the X360 and think that the whole gen was all roses requires a lot of things be forgotten, mostly the start and end of the generation, it's that bit in the middle where it was amazing.