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curl-6 16 hours ago
Sogreblute said:

Since it seems a lot of the stuff I was gonna go with has already been taken I'll go with something a lot of people don't think about.
Microsoft with the Xbox and Xbox 360 bridged the gap between porting games from PC to console and vise-versa. They got primary PC developers to make games for consoles because they made their consoles more like PC's just a closed PC. Development between the two was no longer apples and oranges.
So I think what they got right was bringing a lot of PC only games/series to consoles and made their consoles developer friendly. If you think about it the Xbox and Xbox 360 were the easiest consoles for developers to make games for during their time.

Good one; I still remember back in the 6th gen how "wow" it was to be able to play PC stuff like Doom 3 or Morrowind or Half-Life 2 on a console.

And yeah, ease of development too, none of Xbox's consoles were as tricky to work with as say PS2, PS3, N64, Wii, Wii U, Saturn, etc.



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JackHandy 3 hours ago
Chrkeller said:
JackHandy said:

Xbox should go down as the company that fostered the internet age. No, they didn't do it first. But they did it right. And everyone sort of followed their lead.

Whether or not you believe that was a good move, well... that's another discussion.

Strong disagree.  They charged, with is flatly wrong, and others followed.  Online should be free.  Only one doing online right and that is PC.

Unless you mean something else by internet age.

I was speaking to the infrastructure and how well it all worked. Before Xbox Live, the best us console gamers had had was Dreamcast and bare-bones Sega.net. Compared to that, XBL was an epiphany.

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