Power On: The Story of Xbox

[Azzanation]

d21lewis said:

Azzanation said:

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 Hardware, 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.

I literally said that last paragraph in my post. ("Xbox did it best but Sony still did it first.") From my amateur point of view, it always looked like Sony would watch whatever the other companies were doing and then beat them to market with it. The Sony analog controller actually came out before the N64, for example.  But they would still technically be first.

 Also, Wii was a part of that generation and they didn't lose a billion dollars to the RRoD.

One more thing they said that I just remembered was that Nintendo and Sony were losing money on the consoles but making money on game sales. I don't know if Nintendo ever took a loss on hardware sales but if they did, it was rare and probably not a big loss of that. The original Xbox lost $100 for each one sold.

Not a big deal in the grand scheme of the documentary but still something that wasn't exactly accurate.

I am just saying that it doesn't matter who does it first, because there might have been platforms doing these things probably before Sony. Its who does it right which is when the industry gets taken by storm and evolves to adapt.