I bought every Xbox EVER!

I have just bought every single Xbox console ever got a TV from the time of each one's release and even the same game on all of them so let's see how the entire gaming experience has leveled up when the original Xbox hit the stores all the way back in 2001 it hit hard Gamers were shocked that anyone let alone an American company like Microsoft would dare to go toe-to-toe with the Japanese Giants that were Nintendo and Sony who at this point had long established their dominance over the console gaming markets it just sounded like a recipe for disaster but there was a method to the madness see while Microsoft had no experience with consoles they basically ran the world of PC gaming at the time thanks to windows's extremely developer friendly DirectX app programming interface but they saw a threat on the horizon with the announcement that Sony's Playstation 2 was gonna be able to play DVDs and CDs as well as games Microsoft CEO Bill Gates realized that sooner or later home consoles were going to overtake the PC as the all-in-one media device and so they had to act fast and release one of their own if they wanted to stay relevant the solution Xbox and barely fits on my table inside you get the power cable you get an old school TV adapter the controller holy holy this thing is chunkier than I remember there's some manuals and then the console this is huge and what Microsoft did here is really clever they built the Xbox in a very similar way to how you would build a PC with PC parts like an ethernet port for online access and a built-in eight gigabyte hard drive which was the first for any console and this allowed them to also transfer over that Windows DirectX programming interface to this console which is actually how we ended up with the name X Box and all of this gave the Xbox one huge Advantage it was incredibly easy to bring PC games to it oh yeah and it was also the most powerful console in the world Microsoft were very aware that they needed to compete with the PlayStation 2 specs to make the Xbox a success but what they decided to do instead was to completely annihilate them we literally double the PS2 system memory at 64 megabytes of RAM Xbox became the obvious choice for the most ambitious developers like Bungie who created the most important game in Microsoft's entire history Halo I gotta say something about this really appeals to me seamless hyper real indoor and outdoor environments to some extent they probably knew how much of an impact this game was going to have let's get this console on I really really miss consoles having moving Parts like this it's just so satisfying and tactile sorry about having an old console head with an old TV it completes the experience you can't forget this bad boy over here I still can't believe this is a legitimate controller but Microsoft actually released I feel like I'm holding like a boomerang it definitely makes you feel like you're about to do some serious damage but player one player two player three player four this is what I miss about modern gaming but your friends will just come over to your house they bring their controllers with them they plug them into your machine and you can just play on the couch together oh my God this is such a cool start of Animation Microsoft did such a good job of making this appeal to the gamer oh my gosh I absolutely smashed it with this soundtrack calling it now this is going on my funeral that's a bit dark actually normal difficulty it's my first time in a while you know what Preposterous Dimensions aside this is actually quite comfortable and ergonomic you can totally see how Halo became such a Mainstay It's a combination of the graphics the gameplay the soundtrack ah this is way before any kind of motion smoothing Tech so it definitely feels just a little bit laggy compared to Modern games the rumble on the control is fantastic I remember how cool people found it when you could see the number of bullets left on the gun itself it shows every single individual bullet that I have in my magazine and it's all surprisingly legible the reflections on the gun are really impressive and then this would like blow people's minds you press the white button on the top and that becomes a Flash oh yeah and then you can also go up close and punch them and it's just as overpowered as it is today oh I'm dead RIT the original Xbox went on to sell 24 million units in its lifetime handily beating Nintendo's GameCube to cement Microsoft as one of Gaming's big three players just after their first console the crazy thing is though that despite those sales Microsoft actually made a lot of four billion on the Xbox just because it was that expensive to produce so they weren't worried the Xbox had served its purpose of building the foundations of what would become a complete Game Changer the Xbox 360. now you might be wondering why they didn't just do the normal thing and call it the Xbox too well this is around the time when Sony was launching their PlayStation 3. and so instead of making it seem like they were still on Two And lagging a generation behind Microsoft decided to just scrap the numbering system and focus on how this Xbox put the user at the center get it like 360. and the process of actually trying to get a brand new sealed one of these is actually insane I mean you can see the entire box is falling apart because it's so old and also probably not stored very well so the console's on top this time there's a few manuals and then two compartments after which you get absolutely assaulted by accessories I had no idea there was an Xbox TV remote the wall adapter ethernet cable for internet a headset included in the Box nice the TD display cable the frankly enormous power supply and then the Classic Controller wow this is noticeably trimmed down versus its predecessor it's definitely lost a little bit of that core gamer personality that the first Xbox had but you can see why they've done everything about this is way more streamlined from the weaker shape of both the console and the controller to the fact that the massive X branding has basically disappeared all serving the goal of making it a more appealing home media device that even non-gamers would want which I guess also explains this funny media control remote the 360 dwarfed its predecessor in the specs Department about roughly eight times the raw processing power with 512 megabytes of ram helping it to display far more graphically intensive games natively at 720p resolution being a PC company first Microsoft was far more experienced than Sony and Nintendo in Internet devices and so they use this advantage to make sure that this Xbox had the fastest internet hardware and that Microsoft's online servers were the most reliable and while the original Xbox did also have some online capabilities and the 360 they built online into the core DNA of it you could buy music you could stream TV you could download movies this was really the beginning of true online Competitive Gaming plus rather than making each game its own separate online experience Microsoft realized that if they could instead create a single profile system that could reach across all gains with achievements and gamer score that a player could accumulate to show their friends how good of a gamer they are they would Garner far more loyalty to the console this is why the 360 shipped with a headset right out the box Microsoft wanted to make it as easy as possible for people to jump online and get fully invested in the Xbox ecosystem oh yeah and it also had Halo 3 which is still considered one of the greatest video games of all time well it's actually kind of weird to be holding a normal size controller in my hand this is so comfortable in comparison and then this was like the party trick of the generation hold the Xbox button and wirelessly turn that on it's so cool seeing that green disc slowly pulls to life it is not a quiet machine though I've owned several room fans that make less noise than that [Applause] that is Iconic and they're just flexing the 3D power of this console so this middle button is like your portal to the online features there's so many things to do here this is such a great user interface for a console it's colorful it's fast it's clear and I guess most importantly it keeps you connected to your friends kind of feels a bit like a PC but you'd connect to your TV people actually got the windows logo here and I really wish the online servers were still up well there's kids spending their entire evenings screaming obscenities of people's moms Good Times okay so straight away you can notice the higher resolution of this it's also got a little bit of that motion blur so panning around feels more fluid there's also so much unexpected freedom from just being Wireless even the character's walking animation is much more human I still miss the fact that you can't scope in by holding the left trigger like you can on most modern first person shooters headshot in grunts is one of my favorite pastimes the higher power of this console has allowed the scale of the battles to increase there's more enemies involved in every encounter and vastness of the battlefields has gone up probably the easiest way to see the higher resolution is just looking at the user interface so I got an achievement makes such a difference to the gaming experience wow you can dual wield weapons into his that's such a cool way of stepping things up from last gen Halo the Xbox 360 wasn't without its struggles like thousands of consoles were played with Hardware errors at launch including the infamous Red Ring of Death where the light surrounding the power button would turn red to indicate that your console was effectively a well X box and then there was the 360 slim that you could get bundled with Xbox Kinect Microsoft's motion camera answer to Nintendo's wildly successful Wii which Microsoft hyped up enormously only to forget to release any good games on it to be fair I remember being blown away when I first played connect Adventures but let's be honest it's no Halo the 360 slim was quieter and Drew less power than the bass version which was enough to make it quite a popular machine so Microsoft decided to make lots of versions The arcades the pro the elite the 360e and overall it's fair to say they did enough things right to almost quadruple the last console sales to 84 million and a sub to the channel would be X exciting it's too easy but then they would have what would become the biggest fail in gaming history on the surface though it might not be obvious why see what made the 360 such a hit was its combination of gaming online play and its Dual Purpose as a media box so with the Next Generation Xbox one they decided to run with those portraits they showcased the Xbox one as being this smart media box of the future being able to seamlessly juggle with television and gaming and actually being always online which might have been okay but it's just the way they went about it went down like a ton of bricks because it wasn't just that the Xbox one could be always online it had to be to function it had a system that would assign any game you buy specifically to your account so you couldn't buy or sell used games they spent so much time talking about TV that it didn't even feel like the launch of an extern games console they called it the Xbox one even though it was the Third Xbox and the most damning of all was that instead of forgetting about Kinect after its failure last year Microsoft instead decided to bundle their next 2.0 with every single Xbox one I'm pushing the price up to a whole hundred dollars more than Sony's Playstation 4. all you need to do is to see the difference in audience reaction to know how this generation was about 399 dollars 429 pounds in the UK you could say that Gamers were inconsolable but the sad part of it is that there's quite a lot to like here the box is split nicely into two key compartments one half has a new way nicer sleeker headset huge power supply again an HDMI cable means plug and then a completely redesigned controller the second compartment is well the console which is designed to be mostly just a black box so that it would fit well in people's living rooms also Xbox one was not messing around in the power Department while the Xbox 360 was around eight times more powerful than the original Xbox this monster was around 16 times better than the 360 or the 125 times the original it's basically a full-on PC with eight gigabytes of RAM supporting its now native 1080p output even the game boxes have had a bit of a facelift the Xbox One game packaging looks so much more modern to me right a new controller time as well I'm a huge huge fan of the Xbox One controller this is such an overhaul this is really careful blend of both matte and glossy Parts it just looks very Pro which the thing up notice how the Xbox logo is now white instead of green they're really trying to tone down the we are just for gamers messaging the home screen is vastly different to what's shipped on the Xbox 360. that's actually in part because Microsoft played around with a lot of different user interfaces on the 360. before eventually settling with this tile-like design for the Xbox one which does feel semi-inspired by Windows 10. I always wanted to feel a little bit more like a console and a little bit less like a computer do you feel like the load times of everything have gotten longer from the last year got a way more sophisticated menu to create your avatar with you can even see the shine on the face it's pretty impressive this is definitely the era of the connected game difference is crazy I mean straight away it's running at 60 frames per second for the first time there is absolutely no way that the Xbox 360 could render that many things at one time and they've also finally added in those modern day Staples like clicking down the analog stick to Sprint or being able to scope in using the left trigger one of the other things that Microsoft has improved this time around is the latency of the controller the first time they went Wireless with the 360 there was just a little bit of delay but that's gone now the scale of the game means that you no longer feel like you're part of a battle you feel like you're in a war can't wipe the grin off my face unfortunately while it was a big step up it still wasn't quite as powerful as the competing PlayStation 4. while Sony built the PS4 from the ground up with the sole purpose of gaming Microsoft said themselves that they purposefully did not Target the highest end graphics with the Xbox One in favor of a broader focus on entertainment and so just being that tiny bit behind the PlayStation in terms of performance landed Xbox with the reputation of being the console for noobs who weren't really serious about gaming anyway obviously after all of this Microsoft realized they'd shot themselves in the foot with a whole multimedia thing so they set out on a mission to turn things around releasing Xbox ones that you could buy without the Kinect scrapping initially planned features like the always online restrictions and allowing the use of pre-owned games and most importantly creating two new revisions of the console the Xbox One S and the Xbox One X and this was one of the best decisions Microsoft ever made so starting with the 1s it comes in a smaller meter box with three compartments we've got one which has the HDMI cable that's slightly updated controller and the means adapter one which has the game code for Forza Horizon 4 and some manuals which seems like a great use of space and one which is the console so why is this such a great idea well it's because Microsoft were kind of right with the original Xbox One in assuming that there were a lot of people who wanted a high-end gaming device and also a lot of people who wanted a fast smooth connected TV box the mistake they made though was to assume that those were the same groups of people they were in fact largely two separate groups that this new strategy of two separate consoles allowed them to Target specifically so this one s is the TV box it's designed to just slot into your cabinet and forget about it it's Slimmer than the original console it runs quieter it has HDR and 4K Blu-ray support and the new controller has baked in Bluetooth which gives it longer range and you might have also noticed that there was no power supply in the box and that's because the 1s is a feat they've managed to make this console smaller while also cramming the entire power supply inside the body while also making this way cheaper than the launch Xbox at just 299 and then we've got the One X which is kind of Microsoft's way of overcompensating if I'm saying to Gamers hold up you said you wanted power right well here's the most powerful console to ever exist you get a 14 day free trial for Xbox Live Gold how generous an HDMI cable the same controller is the s a power cable and then the One X itself No Frills definitely no connect this console is just pure numbers it has a faster CPU faster GPU 50 more RAM double the storage at one terabyte and of course full 4K HDR support for its games this thing is 4.5 times faster than the Xbox one which means that compared to the original Xbox we're talking approximately 563 times more powerful okay I'm ready to experience the power It's actually an even more streamlined controller there's a whole new boot up screen as well which is basically Xbox saying we got power I remember the marketing around this console was basically just the word 4K slapped everywhere and this controller they've actually added this like micro dot texture on the back so while the Xbox One X was not a completely new platform from the Xbox One it still has the same library of games there were quite a few developers who took it as an opportunity to make the definitive enhanced version of their existing game like with Halo 5. This is this is taking so long to load come on Microsoft One Thing Microsoft have done a really good job with though is keeping the console quiet like all I can hear right now is still the Xbox 360 over there so this is running at 4K 60 frames per second now and even though it's the exact same game with the exact same effects as that the resolution bump shows you a level of detail that you couldn't see before so it still kind of feels Next Generation plus the developers also use the extra power of the One X to increase the draw distances so you can just see even further isn't it kind of crazy though that this console after just a few years of the Xbox One's release is so much more powerful and yet so much smaller so yeah while the one was definitely not the one the one s and the One X where enough for Microsoft to claw their total Xbox One sales all the way up to a respectable 58 million units and since then it's pretty clear they've held on tight to the lessons they learned because in 2020 when it came to the Next Generation right from the get-go they launched two consoles with the exact same strategy the series s a media Focus machine at 299 dollars and the series X a gaming Focus machine at 499 but this time because these two consoles were built from the ground up for these different kinds of users they're even more specialized so for the series s the box is pretty standard Microsoft there and once you get open gosh this thing's tiny it's wrapped like a piece of sushi there's a power cable HDMI a Next Generation controller and then the console so yeah this is the smallest Xbox ever it's like a lunch box making it to the easiest console ever to just slip into your cabinet and never see it again did you come because I said lunch they did cut the disk drive in the process partly for size reasons partly for cost reasons and probably also partly to try and push people to try Microsoft's monthly subscription Game Pass service which gives you access to a netflix-like rotating library but for games and then in terms of power it's a bit of a weird one because the series s is a new console with completely modern internals and next-gen features but it's also a much cheaper machine than the One X that just launched three years prior and so on paper it actually ends up a bit weaker in terms of like the raw grunt available but there is a significant benefit just to being new like because both the series s and the X are fitted with solid state drives instead of traditional old-school spinning hard drives they can load up games like this this is even more texture than the last controller using the triggers are ribs and the entire controller except the face buttons this time are matte which I guess is like function over form there's a new Hero game on the Block this is Halo infinite and you might be thinking well this is a weaker console right how is it going to in any way play a game better than the 1X but this is what I was saying it's a really weird balance so technically this console runs the game at a lower resolution 1080p versus 4K but it's doing so with Next Generation effects oh and also it can run games at up to 120 frames per second so for example if you look at the gun I'm holding you can see it's got a whole other layer of visual detail and it also supports these next Generation effects like Ray tracing the firing animations are insane look at all this you can also feel the controller Rumble but it's noticeably subtler than it wasn't like the first Xbox and this is actually the first time that you can actually see that the needles in the gun are crystals and I guess the other thing that modern games have gotten better at is finding interesting ways for you to travel so in this case you get a grappling hook that just lets you attach yourself to anything and of course it's impossible to argue that the series doesn't get some really impressive output for the cost it's just not close to the level of its bigger brother the series X and the premium tier of this console becomes immediately apparent the second you open the box this is a different experience altogether matte black loads of attention to detail they've done a really good job of making this feel like a proper Christmas present there's also a power cable HDMI the series X controller and the series X definitely one of the more unique shaped ones I've held this really is the generation of strange space age console designs but I mean compared to the PlayStation 5 which Sony wanted to look like nothing else in your living room the Xbox series X's boxy fridge like design makes it look more like a PC which is kind of nice because that's what Microsoft has always done best the series X takes the S and overclocks the CPU from 3.6 gigahertz to 3.8 dials up the 10 gigabytes of RAM to 16 and quadruples the amount of Graphics power so let's see what 1125 times the performance of the original Xbox looks like time for the series X the difference that high dynamic range makes is very much day and night it feels like when it comes to loading times they started fast they got slow and now they're fast to get this is incredible I mean yeah this is the same game as the series s but playing here it actually feels bigger than the jump between the one and the One X it's partly because we have a larger better screen here but you do also need a console that can take advantage of that the combination of sound design with haptics makes every movement feel so precise and here's the one thing that hasn't changed I guess the one thing you could say Xbox has played it quite safely is the controller compared to Sony who's built those pressure sensitive triggers I guess Microsoft's focusing more on backwards compatibility and keeping all the core things in place right let's get one big shot of all the consoles together so as you can probably imagine to make a video like this I spent a lot of time shopping in some of the weirder parts of the internet and 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Keywords: xbox, playstation, nintendo, gaming

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Length: 21min 44sec (1304 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 21 2023