“Kinect is going to be the future of gaming!” Except this is the only generation that is going to natively support it. But hey, Apple will shrink it down, put it in a phone, and use it to authenticate you. That’s not nearly as fun as using it for dancing and rafting though.
Fifa Ultimate Team was already going strong on 360. Started all the way back in 2009, but the insane gambling player packs came a little later.
CS: GO cases technically started during Xbox 360’s life cycle (a little short of 2 years before Xbox One launched), although the game was PC only.
As others have mentioned - Oblivion horse armor DLC was already a thing.
Microsoft first introduced paywalled online functionality with Xbox 360’s Xbox Live subscription.
You could add some more to the list. By this time gaming was already going downhill. What you remember as the ‘last great console generation’ is probably just nostalgia. Although you could make a case that early Xbox 360 days were pretty great.
Only PSN was free, Xbox live was always paid. Like, this was a huge argument Playstation fanboys held over the heads of Xbox fanboys during the console wars
And you didn’t even get better service for your money, since many Xbox live games didn’t have dedicated servers and instead used P2P technology (which, to be fair, was also the case on PS3)
360 era DLC was just more game to tide you over while you waited for the sequel. But then they realised they could cut half the game and sell it as DLC later on. But then they realised they didn’t want to wait for later on and started selling half the game over the counter and half the game from inside the game.
Damn right they are. Probably the last great console generation before modern monetization practices fully took hold.
“Kinect is going to be the future of gaming!” Except this is the only generation that is going to natively support it. But hey, Apple will shrink it down, put it in a phone, and use it to authenticate you. That’s not nearly as fun as using it for dancing and rafting though.
Too late.
Fifa Ultimate Team was already going strong on 360. Started all the way back in 2009, but the insane gambling player packs came a little later.
CS: GO cases technically started during Xbox 360’s life cycle (a little short of 2 years before Xbox One launched), although the game was PC only.
As others have mentioned - Oblivion horse armor DLC was already a thing.
Microsoft first introduced paywalled online functionality with Xbox 360’s Xbox Live subscription.
You could add some more to the list. By this time gaming was already going downhill. What you remember as the ‘last great console generation’ is probably just nostalgia. Although you could make a case that early Xbox 360 days were pretty great.
Xbox Live started with the original Xbox
But it wasn’t strictly paid on the original Xbox, was it? Or am I misremembering?
Only PSN was free, Xbox live was always paid. Like, this was a huge argument Playstation fanboys held over the heads of Xbox fanboys during the console wars
And you didn’t even get better service for your money, since many Xbox live games didn’t have dedicated servers and instead used P2P technology (which, to be fair, was also the case on PS3)
Xbox Live was always a paid service.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/01/09/xbox-live-through-the-years
https://news.microsoft.com/source/2002/08/13/xbox-live-to-launch-on-one-year-anniversary-of-console-launch/
I am pretty sure my parents had to pay $10/mo or whatever for me to lose all those matches in MechAssault.
We were well into horse armor by this point
It was the start of it, but it wasn’t common practice, at least not towards the beginning of the generation.
It was the first generation for DLC to be more common, but it felt like an addition and not just restoring intentionally cut content.
I do agree that towards the end of the generation, some of the greedier companies started some of their worst practices.
360 era DLC was just more game to tide you over while you waited for the sequel. But then they realised they could cut half the game and sell it as DLC later on. But then they realised they didn’t want to wait for later on and started selling half the game over the counter and half the game from inside the game.
The last console I ever purchased.