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Recently, we got hold of a launch Xbox 360 that had never been powered on before. First, we unboxed it for your viewing pleasure and now we're putting it to good use. See the original "Blades" dashboard on the original launch firmware, before we dive into the first part of our extensive look at EVERY launch game for Microsoft's greatest console.

00:00 - Introduction
01:47 - The Beginnings of Xbox 360
03:04 - The Blades - Freshly Captured for You
08:43 - Chapter 1 - First Party Games
11:46 - Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo
17:03 - Every Party
19:40 - Chapter 2 - Ridge Racer 6
21:57 - Tetris: The Grand Master Ace
24:34 - Chapter 3 - PC Ports/Call of Duty 2
33:32 - Quake 4
37:52 - Condemned
42:14 - Need for Speed: Most Wanted
47:56 - Outro for Part 1

 

[Signalis]

Glad the thumbnail doesn't look like mugshots of convicted pedophiles.

 

[HRK69]

Glad the thumbnail doesn't look like mugshots of convicted pedophiles.

It always motivates me to book a dentist appointment

 

[Drew1440]

If Microsoft ever release a 'classic' version of the 360, I hope it uses the Blades dashboard.

 

[Senua]

PGR3 was my fav launch title, so fucking good

Glad the thumbnail doesn't look like mugshots of convicted pedophiles.

It always motivates me to book a dentist appointment

 

[kevboard]

the blueprint for every modern console.

the Xbox 360 was the last revolutionary console... we have plateaued ever since then.

downloadable games, achievements, cross-game party chat, background downloads while playing games, background music playback, a sidebar that can be called up at any time to invite friends, start a chat or look up your achievements or background downloads...

if you took a launch day Xbox 360, gave it modern hardware and keep everything else the same, it would still not feel out of place in the modern era.

 

[Det]

the blueprint for every modern console.

the Xbox 360 was the last revolutionary console... we have plateaued ever since then.

downloadable games, achievements, cross-game party chat, background downloads while playing games, background music playback, a sidebar that can be called up at any time to invite friends, start a chat or look up your achievements or background downloads...

if you took a launch day Xbox 360, gave it modern hardware and keep everything else the same, it would still not feel out of place in the modern era.

This will be a rhetoric used by Xbox widows for the next 40 years.

 

[kevboard]

This will be a rhetoric used by Xbox widows for the next 40 years.

it's simply... the truth.
it literally introduced nearly everything modern consoles still do in nearly the exact form they still do it.

I know you apparently have been touched inappropriately by Microsoft as a kid, given the posts I've seen by you, but even someone with M.D.S. should be able to agree that consoles have not evolved much beyond the Xbox 360, and are just faster versions of it... although, the PS4 and Xbox One were much slower in some ways actually. but at least current gen consoles run decently quick again.

 

[Det]

it's simply... the truth.
it literally introduced nearly everything modern consoles still do in nearly the exact form they still do it.

I know you apparently have been touched inappropriately by Microsoft as a kid, given the posts I've seen by you, but even someone with M.D.S. should be able to agree that consoles have not evolved much beyond the Xbox 360, and are just faster versions of it... although, the PS4 and Xbox One were much slower in some ways actually. but at least current gen consoles run decently quick again.

The cancer that created online P2P, the console is the server, paid.

And this jingoistic rhetoric that normalized paid online P2P. Xbox created it, and its trained fanboys transformed it into a "glorious future."

 

[kevboard]

The cancer that created online P2P, the console is the server, paid.

what do peer-to-peer connections have to do with this?

if you incorrectly use P2P to mean pay to play, well that was introduced with the original Xbox not the 360.

 

[Sticks]

 

[Det]

what do peer-to-peer connections have to do with this?

if you incorrectly use P2P to mean pay to play, well that was introduced with the original Xbox not the 360.

The cancer that created online P2P, the console is the server, paid.

And this jingoistic rhetoric that normalized paid online P2P. Xbox created it, and its trained fanboys transformed it into a "glorious future."

Then they say you're cult followers who just repeat the script without thinking, and you don't know where that came from...
It vomits "supreme Xbox live" and can't understand P2P in the context of a network.

 

[Darsxx82]

First a thread reminiscing about the Master System and now this one about Digital Foundry with the Xbox 360... Too many nostalgic moments during the Christmas season when I'm more sensitive