Interesting perspective regarding the Xbox and Xbox 360
Indeed, those are the consoles that had a huge, lasting impact on gaming
We measure impact by looking at how current games are developed, and they certainly borrowed many Xbox ideas especially bringing online play into the console space. Of course, online gaming was already big on PC, but the Xbox’s inception was what really broke the wall between the console and PC gaming worlds.
We can clearly see the shift from the best-selling games of the PS2 era to what they became after the Xbox 360 generation. GTA was already a huge IP on the PS2, but it was only after the Xbox era that it fully turned into a live-service model. Genres traditionally big on PC also surged on consoles: shooters (Doom, Half-Life, Call of Duty, and of course Halo) and computer RPGs (The Elder Scrolls, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Fallout)
True, many people may not like how Microsoft changed the industry, but those are real game changers, without a doubt the more important consoles in the last 30 years
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