Power On: The Story of Xbox

[EricHiggin]

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.

d21lewis said:

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.

There were a bunch. Enough that it's not easy to remember them all.

What was odd, is they did talk about things like game sharing in one vid, though the way they explained that was that basically everyone misunderstood and it was never a problem to begin with. 

Now while there were some misunderstandings, due to poor XB messaging, it didn't change the fact that gamers took issue with it once it was clear.

Then it was mentioned that the only difference between PS4 and XB1 was the price. Of course leading to consumers choosing the PS4.

Only a price difference? It's not like the rest of the differences were so minor they weren't worth mentioning, some being said just prior.

It's a decent marketing tool for the XB brand, but it clearly wasn't made for historical accuracy as you say.

Last edited by EricHiggin - on 17 December 2021