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I’m really fascinated at how complex this was. How anyone even works this stuff out is beyond me.
I still have one sat in a drawer so I really hope they can make this into a consumer friendly hack.
Gonna be annoyed if we somehow focus so much on this compared to 360 that we get working persistent softmods for xbox one before my beloved 360.
Either way, GG to the people who can use this to crack open that machine and really figure out the internals. Or create cool homebrew or whatever else people decide to do in the future, assuming this goes somewhere.
What this means is clean room reverse engineering can happen on the console’s software . So custom firmware and other tools are now possible (without relying on data leaks from hackers).
This is still probably years from now, but exciting to see.
Is the XBox One the new one? Or the one after Xbox 360? The only company who knows how to name their consoles is Sony.
Microsoft is trying to confuse the audience by saying “oh, they have the playstation 3? We have the Xbox 360! That’s 357 higher than 3!”
I don’t own any Xbox’s. I don’t know the order they came out in. But even if I never owned a playstation, I could tell you 5 is the newest one, because 6 hasn’t come out yet.
And then there’s Nintendo…who may genuinely be on drugs when they name their consoles. I mean for gods sake! One of them was named after a penis, and one was named after a bdsm role.
Which one is the Xbox One again?
The Xbox one came after the Xbox 360 and before the current version, the XBox Series X/S.
They really do have the stupidest names.
Xbox fucked itself when it released the 360. It’s a cool name and all, but where do you go from there? They can’t back out and name the next one the Xbox 3 because that’s just a downgrade to 360 both audibly and visually. The Xbox 720 like plenty of people thought? That one’s honestly not bad, but at this point you’ve only kicked the can down the road. Because the Xbox 1080 or 1440 doesn’t sound nearly as good.
I can’t tell if they were just scared to have the “Xbox 2” compete with the “PlayStation 3”, or if it was just MS not knowing how to name a damn product.
XBox Series X or was it XBox Series One X?
I have no idea … some crazy naming they have going on there.
I think the numbering thing was stupid but I think that can go to how stupid consumers are though. Consumers can be dumb enough to think that it’s inferior due to a lower number.
One of them was named after a penis
I suppose one could say I have a “virtual boy”
In all seriousness, which one do you mean?
The Wii. And the followup named for the sound an ambulance makes, the Wii U.
I will never forget the fact that in 2006 right after the Wii launched, they were impossible to find.
So a radio station held a contest. It’s one of those things that sounds innocent enough, if you never think of the medical side of things.
So basically, the contest was called “Hold your Wee for a Wii”. You drink a glass of water, and wait. And then at intervals, everybody drinks another glass of water.
Well…a woman died, and I forget the medical term, but basically she drank so much water that her bladder burst, the water filled her lungs, and she drowned from the water she drank.
All in the hopes of winning a Wii. Then after she died, the radio station fired both of the shock jocks, and tried to distance themselves from any responsibility. This was before twitter, so the family reached out to media outlets and said something along the lines of “even if they never admit fault, even if they never help with paying for the funeral arangements, and even if we didn’t sue them, they STILL never even bothered to send us a Wii. Our mother is dead, and they’re so cheap they won’t spend $250 on the console our mom put herself through hell for.”
They did sue, and won. And a bunch of people from around the world crowdfunded and got them a Wii.
But if I were that 12 year old kid, I’d appriciate the gesture of the regular people crowdfunding to get a Wii, but I’d never be able to enjoy it. Every game, at every moment, I’d be thinking “my mom is dead…for this.”
I don’t know if I’d ever be able to seperate Nintendo (who did nothing wrong in this by the way), from my dead mom. Even with the Switch. Or retro games. I think if that had happened to me, it would kill my ability to play Nintendo, if not all games.
IIRC, that happened in the city I live in. I know someone here died of water poisoning after a radio contest, but I don’t remember what the contest was actually for. Drank so much water, it diluted the blood so it couldn’t carry oxygen to the brain.
If you never heard the stories of this happening, it would still sound pretty innocent. Who would think too much water could kill you? It’s the source of life!
I’m guessing Wii
