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Azzanation on 17 December 2021
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d21lewis said:

A few things I remember not agreeing with (I'm paraphrasing):

-"The Xbox 360 won the generation": Maybe in the United States but worldwide? Nah.

-Consoles couldn't have good first person shooters before Halo? Medal of Honor, Goldeneye, Quake II and III (the latter's Dreamcast version even had cross play with the PC!)

-Sony actually brought a hard drive, headset, online, etc to market before Xbox. Xbox did it best but Sony still did it first.

There are a few more examples but the more time passes, the more I forget.

Winning a generation to a business isn't about just the sales figures. the 360 made more money than the PS3, sold more software overall than the PS3, it also tripled its customer based while the PS3 lost half its user base. That's a win.

I agree their were many great FPS for consoles before Halo but none of them had the splash Halo did. It revolutionized the console FPS genre and took it forward competing with the very best PC FPS games of the time.

Its not who does it first, its who does it right. The Harddrive, Modem and Online was all done before Xbox but Xbox did it right. Just like the Analog sticks on the N64, They existed before the N64 but the N64 did it right.

Last edited by Azzanation - on 17 December 2021