I think it’s cus the first one was a little more simple but still very weird. At least it wasn’t like the ps2 going to the slim ps2 where you just lose hard drive support all together
@@carloszerpa2312 As of today only 29% of 360 and 6% of OG Xbox games are compatible with One / Series. Granted those few games run very well and its more than PS & Nintendo offer on current gen, buts its still a pretty small selection
@@Itskfxyeah, but don't buy it expecting to play online, most people have switched to at least ps4 or have stop playing. I reccomend softmodding with hen so you can play whatever you want, it's super easy.
i've had my ps3 for as long as i can remember and made plenty of memories with it, got a 2nd ps3 for free, bought a wii just two weeks ago for its unique ergonomics and party-focused nature, and now i'm thinking of filling out the trio and buying an xbox 360 just for the hell of it the only exclusive that i'm interested in playing is forza horizon 1, though there's also the factor of better optimization for 3rd party games over the ps3, anyway it might be worth it considering the insanely low costs for a 7th gen console these days, and my current pc is just barely too weak without overclocking to run fh1 at what i consider a playable framerate
When I was 10 I got the OG Black Xbox 360 Elite in 2009 MW2 and Halo 3 being my first games, nothing will ever top gaming like that time period, so glad I got to grow up with it!
I agree. I remember when Halo 3 came out. Pre ordered, waited for months and bought the elite with it. Definately a time in gaming I will always remember.
The duke is the most comfortable. 360 is the gold standard for any age, it's also very, extremely, ridiculously durable. Since the One... they feel like toys. It's such a cheap plastic. I'll never buy a new Microsoft controller ever again. I'm sticking with Gamesir for life or until a better company comes along.
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Can't believe the 360 is as old now as the Atari 7800 was when the 360 came out. That's absolutely crazy!
The PS3, 360 and Wii era was gaming at its peak. We had so much creative innovation with franchises and alot of memorable classics from that console generation. It's thanks to the success of the 360 Sony actually had to step it up, because their $599 pricing for PS3 in 2006 made them come off as they tried to become the Apple of home consoles/gaming.
The saddest part is that newer generations will have no idea of what it was like even if they play all the games from that era. The set and setting is extremely important. The society, the culture, the music; the kind of displays we all had, from the last, most advanced CRT's to the newer LCDs. It all came with a vibe that you cannot replicate today because now you know you are faking it for just a moment in your room and that's it. Gaming is gone as we knew it for decades. It's time for the indie scene and mod communities to shine like never before.
Just shows how easily people are tricked really. Sony is also not Microsoft with practically infinite money, who could subsidise all aspects of the development costs and then subsidise the cost of the console much heavier than the competition.
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I had the original model and it never red ringed for me. still have it sitting in the house collecting dust. gunna have to turn it on one last time and enjoy some of my classics
@@OctavioGaitan mainly because they kept dying and you either had to send it in or buy a new one. I went through 12 of those things and ive had a few friends who went through more than that.
What I miss the most is being able to put a disc in and it being ready to play immediately not having to wait for it to download even after buying the disc version
@mad576wastaken havent really played the 360 in a while, mostly switch and steam deck and far as consoles go recently. But still a massive improvement for couch gaming. Loving game pass catalog.. just need more time to get through it haha
There are over 200 non-backward compatible games for the 360, with many of them not having a physical release. Plus, you won't be able to buy any DLC for 360 games, even if you have it on disc.
@@starzhvh Ahh the old reset glitch hack consoles. I had one back in the day that would sometimes take a minute to boot or 20 minutes. This was back when they first came out with the slim consoles. Just look at FH and FH2 and its DLC. It's gone from store, no possible way to purchase it, or play it. Homebrew and hacking enable that kind of content that gets delisted to still be available to people who want it. Archiving and playing older content is a good thing. Not even being able to purchase it anymore is a total shame. I'd have loved to play FH2's DLC, even the Fast and the furious version of the game etc. But without a viable XB1 mod there's simply no way to. I'd buy it if possible, but because of licenses it has to basically disappear forever .
Im pretty sure that if you buy an xbox 360 game on a 360 and use the same account as your xbox one/series and it is backwards compatible it will be in your library on the newer consoles.
4:25 that’s why modded Xbox’s with RGH3 is such the move. Get a BUNCH of games you can’t buy without spending over $100 for them on eBay (Spider-Man shattered dimensions is my childhood)
I noticed that Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena is still available digitally on the 360 for $15. It sadly didn't make it to the backwards compatibility program.
If you want access to all of these games, there are people online who have them readily available for download. You will need an RGH to play them but at least you will still be able to play on the original hardware
1:51 You're gravely mistaken Austin.. You CAN swap out the hard drive, or mod it to have an SSD with the proper peripheral(s) by popping out the left side of the console. (Xbox 360S)
Tried streaming with mine and a friend's a few weeks back and the disk tray got stuck on both. I know they've been sitting around for almost 20 years but dust shouldn't affect the opening capacity of the console.
I still have my Xbox 360 to this day & it brings back so much Nostalgia. I went on a shopping spree in the last few months but I’m going to get a few more things before the 360 Store is gone forever🔥👍
XBox decided what became popular between DVD HD and Blu-ray. That add on drive was absolutely stupid. I don't think the store i worked at sold more than three before they clearanced out.
That Wi-Fi dongle was absolutely the most unreliable beauty it kicked me out of many halo reach lobbies but damn it came in clutch my neighbors didn’t have a password for there Wi-Fi
i used a wifi repeater for all of my 360s they were like 17 bucks and so reliable. wifi repeater connected to your router via WPS and connected to the console via ethernet.
I remember in 2017 getting the Xbox one s for Christmas, to honour my Xbox 360 I had up until then I played all my favourite games from start to finish before moving my account over to Xbox one and saying goodbye to my 360
I'm so glad Microsoft still allow so many old green games on game pass, and for the ones that aren't on game pass or digital you can still play most off disc
This may sound like a stupid question, but as someone who just recently got into Xbox and doesn't know exactly how it works on the store here, will xbox 360 games still be available to purchase on the Series X store or are they removing 360 games from everywhere?
The Xbox 360 was awesome, had some of the coolest special edition consoles ever. I just fixed the RRoD on my 360 Halo 3 edition, now the only special editions I still want are the Halo Reach Slim and the Star Wars Slim.
I have the 360 versions on disc cause they aren't backward compatible... and some of them are on sale right now in the 360 store so I bought them and downloaded them to have them ready in my 360
Perhaps I'm mistaken but are 360 games not on the latest consoles? Your tone near the end almost felt as if all these backward compatible games were just going to disappear.
Any games you own that are backwards compatible will show up on the latest console. You can't buy 360 games you don't already own using the latest console (and you won't be able to buy 360 games from a 360 either once the store closes), and any game that isn't on the backwards compatible list won't show up to play on the latest console even if you own it.
😂😂 I still got both my 360s. I remember that towel trick and then people made videos on how to do the repair yourself. Yup back n them days. 😢 miss it sometimes it was a simpler time.
Ah the Xbox 360. One of my first gaming consoles. Played so much Black Ops 2 and so much GTAV when it came out before heading to school. I'd say it stands the test of time alongside the PS3.
I was actually cleaning a closet the other day and my old 360 was just sitting there. We plugged it back in and relived all the old Minecraft worlds my kids built.
It was the 360 S, not the slim. and yes you could easily swap the hard drives, what are you talking about? I literally worked for xbox support from 2011 to 2016. The S console that came out around holidays of 2011 had a huge flaw with the 4gb models, the flash memory would die, and the console was designed to read that first, so it didn't matter if you put in a hard drive. You would try to update one day, it would fail because the flash storage was dead, they would call us and complain that the update broke their xbox and we would have to replace it, assuming it was in warranty. In my experience these calls were far more frequent than the RROD. Or 3 red lights they demanded we call it
I remember Skyrim took AGEEEES to load. It took like a full minute so you could play again after opening a door. When the Xbox One came I played the whole game again and it was super fast.
Still have my 2 360's and have games on them that you cant evewn get anymore. Love them and have been playing games here and there with my son now. Greatest system
I had a gen 1 360 that didn't have an hdmi port. Trying to find an adapter to make it work on modern tv's had the best buy employees speechless. Finally found a VGA adapter and it was amazing. Still miss it to this day! RRoD fatality.
got the 360 on launch night. maybe a month later, RRoD. they actually had me send it in to Microsoft for a "fix". the "fixed" version also RRoD'd a month or so later -_-
whats funny is i had the original 360 and have yet to get the red rink of death until late 2018 which is just an overheating issue due to the thermal paste being non existent, the rrod was an easy fix just needed a solder reflow which is why the towel trick worked which also caused more damage.
Actually the issue and desing error was the gpu, the gpu die had solder balls between the substrate, and those balls would crack, the problem is that you cannot reflow those balls neither reball because you have to get crazy high tempetatures that at that point would kill the gpu die (the die is the silicon chip), so even if you get it fix by just appying heat, or even replace the entire gpu for a new one, the gpu would always die just by using the console. The Slim model would fix this problem desing
they did the towel trick when you brought in your 360?! in an actual store?! you could just send it in to MS for warranty and they would send you a new (well different, think they were refurbished) console. had to do it twice within warranty (which doesn't start again when you get a replacement console btw so I also bought the new black model when my warranty had run out)
And I still have my original Xbox 360 I got from the Mountain Dew "Every 10 Minutes" giveaway and got it a few days before it officially came out. And it still works, though I did have to modify it to fix the Red Ring of Death.
Most games are backwards compatible but for people like me that miss old WWE games on 360, it sucks we can’t play those on series. South Park let’s go tower defense comes to mind too. MVC2 also.
But Microsoft seriously pulled through with their warranties on the 360. I could ship my console out and have it back the same week at that time which was actually kind of crazy. It shouldn’t have happened in the first place but they honestly did amazing handling that issue for their customers. They were devoted to keeping people happy and not losing their fans
Tip if you buy Xbox and xbox360 games on Xbox one that are not on the 360 store using your xbox360 console and goto your downloads and it shows up and can be downloaded to the 360 console haven't tried it on the x or s
My boys pooled their money and bought an xbox 360 a few years after it first came out, and my older boy still has it and it still works. When we built our house, satellite internet was all we could get, so they had to wait till midnight to start downloading a new game, and it took hours. that may be why he wanted my external hard drive...
What do you mean the slim lost the ability to easily swap the hard drive? You just take the door off on the right side and pull the tab.
Yes, exactly. Austin saying that was kinda weird.
You don't even need a screwdriver to take the cover off.
Because you lost like 30 seconds it's loses the ability to be swapped easily 😂😂🤷♀️
I was thinking about what he said and was confused. It was way better than the original 360. Made the console look more neat and squared away.
I think it’s cus the first one was a little more simple but still very weird. At least it wasn’t like the ps2 going to the slim ps2 where you just lose hard drive support all together
This is why Backwards compatibility is so important. It helps with game preservation.
But I mean, Xbox 360 games will still be in the library as backwards compatible right?
@@carloszerpa2312 As of today only 29% of 360 and 6% of OG Xbox games are compatible with One / Series. Granted those few games run very well and its more than PS & Nintendo offer on current gen, buts its still a pretty small selection
@@carloszerpa2312yes
@@carloszerpa2312not all of them are backwards compatible.
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$50 dollars for an inferior version of BO3 in 2024? Screw you, Activision.
The servers have been shut down too 🤣
Shouldn't that be screw you Micro$oft?😏
@@SeeDaRipper... Screw both! 🤣
@@gentle285 👍
@@SeeDaRipper... True but, Activision has kept high prices on their old games even before they were bought out.
When my brother got a PS3, he gave me his Xbox 360 Arcade as a hand-me-down. Both the Wii and 360 were both my life during the 7th generation.
What a time to be alive
PS3 servers are still going on, thankfully.
I kinda feel like buying a PS3, I admire how Sony is still keeping their servers up.
@@Itskfxyeah, but don't buy it expecting to play online, most people have switched to at least ps4 or have stop playing. I reccomend softmodding with hen so you can play whatever you want, it's super easy.
@@Itskfxbuy it you wont regret it but if you want to play old cod games id get a series s or x instead
i've had my ps3 for as long as i can remember and made plenty of memories with it, got a 2nd ps3 for free, bought a wii just two weeks ago for its unique ergonomics and party-focused nature, and now i'm thinking of filling out the trio and buying an xbox 360 just for the hell of it
the only exclusive that i'm interested in playing is forza horizon 1, though there's also the factor of better optimization for 3rd party games over the ps3, anyway it might be worth it considering the insanely low costs for a 7th gen console these days, and my current pc is just barely too weak without overclocking to run fh1 at what i consider a playable framerate
'It's the worst version of Skyrim' Clearly you've never played the PS3 version
literally… I remember in 2013 playing Skyrim for the first time and it was on ps3… the amount of times it would crash was insane.
Actually just tried skyrim on ps3 last night, honestly had me thinking there was just something wrong with the console lol
I'm still playing Skyrim on the 360 and its awesome.
My sibling fell asleep on the loading screen. For 30 mins i thought they were playing till i went to check on them. Knocked out cold lol
Funny thing it was probably the best one, the og PC was unstable shit and PS3 was ass too. But this is your ignorant evans so there
When I was 10 I got the OG Black Xbox 360 Elite in 2009 MW2 and Halo 3 being my first games, nothing will ever top gaming like that time period, so glad I got to grow up with it!
I agree. I remember when Halo 3 came out. Pre ordered, waited for months and bought the elite with it. Definately a time in gaming I will always remember.
360 slim for Xmas was the greatest gift I’ve ever received
360 controllers is the most comfortable controllers hands down in my opinion.
They're certainly comfortable but, in my opinion, they're a little too small. The newer xbox controllers feel better to me.
I think I like the series controlers a little better but it's close.
I prefer the Duke. It fits my hand perfectly and doesn't inflame my arthritis.
@@TheZoenGaming all the Xbox controllers are goated honestly
The duke is the most comfortable. 360 is the gold standard for any age, it's also very, extremely, ridiculously durable.
Since the One... they feel like toys. It's such a cheap plastic.
I'll never buy a new Microsoft controller ever again. I'm sticking with Gamesir for life or until a better company comes along.
Can't believe the 360 is as old now as the Atari 7800 was when the 360 came out. That's absolutely crazy!
Daaaaaaaaaaaamn
The PS3, 360 and Wii era was gaming at its peak. We had so much creative innovation with franchises and alot of memorable classics from that console generation. It's thanks to the success of the 360 Sony actually had to step it up, because their $599 pricing for PS3 in 2006 made them come off as they tried to become the Apple of home consoles/gaming.
The saddest part is that newer generations will have no idea of what it was like even if they play all the games from that era.
The set and setting is extremely important. The society, the culture, the music; the kind of displays we all had, from the last, most advanced CRT's to the newer LCDs. It all came with a vibe that you cannot replicate today because now you know you are faking it for just a moment in your room and that's it.
Gaming is gone as we knew it for decades. It's time for the indie scene and mod communities to shine like never before.
Just shows how easily people are tricked really. Sony is also not Microsoft with practically infinite money, who could subsidise all aspects of the development costs and then subsidise the cost of the console much heavier than the competition.
One of my favourite cult classic games (de Blob and de Blob 2) was released during this era and I agree.
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@@IsuiGtz - Only idiots would think that the PS3/360/Wii era is better than the 16-bit wars!
The slim let you upgrade the hard drive you had to remove the grill on one of the Sides
My favorite gaming memory was firing up Halo 3 on my Halo edition 360 on Christmas morning. RIP in peace. Gahhh I wish I still had that console
I had the original model and it never red ringed for me. still have it sitting in the house collecting dust. gunna have to turn it on one last time and enjoy some of my classics
Don't forget to clean and repaste it before!
The towel trick 😂😂😂😂
What a time
Baking the 360. 🤣
r.i.p to a great console
A console that had a piss-poor launch, but managed to recover and become one of the world's best-selling consoles.
@@OctavioGaitan mainly because they kept dying and you either had to send it in or buy a new one. I went through 12 of those things and ive had a few friends who went through more than that.
Not really get it modded and get the games it will be easier when the shutdown
a great console.......as long as it isnt the launch models, cuz those are pieces of E Waste
@@OctavioGaitan The PS3 has more sells. What are you talking about?
What I miss the most is being able to put a disc in and it being ready to play immediately not having to wait for it to download even after buying the disc version
2:14 The original 20 GB version of the PS3 did not have Wi-Fi either.
Sure, but that was a budget Japan only version within the lineup, not the only version you could buy.
@@wyterabitt2149 No, that model was also available in the US.
@@Le_Grand_Rigatoniagain not in the rest of the world and not the only version u could buy.
Damn I have a lot of Xbox 360 games from that era I think over 50
RIP to my childhood and teenage years
this is how i spent my teenage years not going out to parties not drinking i was busy finishing the fight
I legit just went from my 360 to a series x 3 weeks ago lol
What an upgrade 😭
I can only imagine the jump in graphics 💀
@mad576wastaken havent really played the 360 in a while, mostly switch and steam deck and far as consoles go recently. But still a massive improvement for couch gaming. Loving game pass catalog.. just need more time to get through it haha
I just did the same thing. But now I am back on the 360 more because of all the great sells over the past few months.
Lol, you can swap out the hard drive on both the S and E.
wait till he finds out :)
I play the 360 as much as my series X, it’s still a super fun console to play and the games hold up pretty good.
I used an Ethernet bridge for my Wii, PS3, and 360. It was $70 and was capable of faster connections-Wireless N-than the $100 OEM dongle.
There are over 200 non-backward compatible games for the 360, with many of them not having a physical release. Plus, you won't be able to buy any DLC for 360 games, even if you have it on disc.
More like over 2000
There are over 4000 non-backwards compatible 360 games
RGH is the only way to preserve xbox 360 games now
Then it's time to start pirating!
@@starzhvh Ahh the old reset glitch hack consoles. I had one back in the day that would sometimes take a minute to boot or 20 minutes. This was back when they first came out with the slim consoles. Just look at FH and FH2 and its DLC. It's gone from store, no possible way to purchase it, or play it. Homebrew and hacking enable that kind of content that gets delisted to still be available to people who want it. Archiving and playing older content is a good thing. Not even being able to purchase it anymore is a total shame. I'd have loved to play FH2's DLC, even the Fast and the furious version of the game etc. But without a viable XB1 mod there's simply no way to. I'd buy it if possible, but because of licenses it has to basically disappear forever
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WoW, my brother's all-time favorite console's store is shutting down on his birthday, weird.
Ah yes, the towel trick. I remember using that trick so much in my dorm room. Eventually I just let my 360 die until I got a slim a year later.
5:20 the moment in which Austin realized that American FOOTball is, instead HANDEGG.
The 360 and PS2 are tied as my favorite consoles ever.
Not the legendary console ending on my birthday 😢
Im pretty sure that if you buy an xbox 360 game on a 360 and use the same account as your xbox one/series and it is backwards compatible it will be in your library on the newer consoles.
Austin getting hyped for Mirror’s Edge made me smile. Love those games and I’d honestly love if we got another one someday.
4:25 that’s why modded Xbox’s with RGH3 is such the move. Get a BUNCH of games you can’t buy without spending over $100 for them on eBay (Spider-Man shattered dimensions is my childhood)
Can I get an F in the comment section to pay our respects to the Xbox 360?
It’s been bad since the Metro days so I’ve lost all respect for it
@@YoungMrBluepretty sure he asked for f not you’re opinion
Lil bro think he’s a Xqc 💀
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I noticed that Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena is still available digitally on the 360 for $15. It sadly didn't make it to the backwards compatibility program.
If you want access to all of these games, there are people online who have them readily available for download. You will need an RGH to play them but at least you will still be able to play on the original hardware
1:51 You're gravely mistaken Austin..
You CAN swap out the hard drive, or mod it to have an SSD with the proper peripheral(s) by popping out the left side of the console. (Xbox 360S)
67% failure rate before the jasper revision
every video you make is a blend of great teaching and great entertainment!
You can access the 360 store on X/S if you're playing a 360 game and go through the menus.
I still remember seeing the 360 over a friends house when they were playing gears of war and my eyes were truly amazed!!
Tried streaming with mine and a friend's a few weeks back and the disk tray got stuck on both. I know they've been sitting around for almost 20 years but dust shouldn't affect the opening capacity of the console.
I still have my Xbox 360 to this day & it brings back so much Nostalgia. I went on a shopping spree in the last few months but I’m going to get a few more things before the 360 Store is gone forever🔥👍
XBox decided what became popular between DVD HD and Blu-ray. That add on drive was absolutely stupid. I don't think the store i worked at sold more than three before they clearanced out.
Both HD-DVD and especially Blu-Ray can go
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That red ring of death with Majora’s Mask clock sound bit 👌
I'm in the UK and ''hand ball'' is an obscure sport here as well, I'm with Austin on that one.
That Wi-Fi dongle was absolutely the most unreliable beauty it kicked me out of many halo reach lobbies but damn it came in clutch my neighbors didn’t have a password for there Wi-Fi
That's why it was booting you, it was extremely reliable had one and used it daily for 8 years
i used a wifi repeater for all of my 360s they were like 17 bucks and so reliable. wifi repeater connected to your router via WPS and connected to the console via ethernet.
Diggin' the TV, the Panasonic TH-42PX60U. I had the 600U version. Great plasma TV. I only upgraded in 2011 because I wanted 55", 1080p, and 3D.
Finally someone who knows what The Gunstringer is. That game was my life.
I remember in 2017 getting the Xbox one s for Christmas, to honour my Xbox 360 I had up until then I played all my favourite games from start to finish before moving my account over to Xbox one and saying goodbye to my 360
As long as you own the digital copy on the 360, it should show up in your games list on the newer xbox's if they are backwards compatible.
The games that show up on the Series X/S store are only the 360 games that are backwards compatible.
I'm so glad Microsoft still allow so many old green games on game pass, and for the ones that aren't on game pass or digital you can still play most off disc
Oh, We All Remember The OG “Duke” Controller of The OG Xbox.
I love how you're not using a modern day TV or monitor to go along with it.
I have my 360 hooked up to a Widescreen Philips CRT. I think I need to play my Series X that way now.
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This may sound like a stupid question, but as someone who just recently got into Xbox and doesn't know exactly how it works on the store here, will xbox 360 games still be available to purchase on the Series X store or are they removing 360 games from everywhere?
The Xbox 360 was awesome, had some of the coolest special edition consoles ever. I just fixed the RRoD on my 360 Halo 3 edition, now the only special editions I still want are the Halo Reach Slim and the Star Wars Slim.
NFS Hot Pursuit is one of the best ones as well as underground
I had my Xbox 360 when it first came out. The first generation of it. My red ring of death I got a full replacement with mine because I had a warranty
It won't let u buy the older need for speed games bc the music licence is running out of has.
Grabbed mine physically, good memories with Hot Pursuit.
I have the 360 versions on disc cause they aren't backward compatible... and some of them are on sale right now in the 360 store so I bought them and downloaded them to have them ready in my 360
Perhaps I'm mistaken but are 360 games not on the latest consoles? Your tone near the end almost felt as if all these backward compatible games were just going to disappear.
Any games you own that are backwards compatible will show up on the latest console. You can't buy 360 games you don't already own using the latest console (and you won't be able to buy 360 games from a 360 either once the store closes), and any game that isn't on the backwards compatible list won't show up to play on the latest console even if you own it.
This video reminded me to go onto the store and purchase DLC for Saints Row, Black Ops and Black Ops II. Feel a ton better :)
idk about the servers. they started the og servers back up! who knows
Swapping out the hard drive on the slim was just as easy as the first 360
A few of my favorite games are still only playable on the Xbox 360. I keep it hooked up to play those games pretty regularly.
Probably the greatest console of all time.
Not at all. Either the bc PS3 or PSP.
😂😂 I still got both my 360s. I remember that towel trick and then people made videos on how to do the repair yourself. Yup back n them days. 😢 miss it sometimes it was a simpler time.
I still have my R2D2 Xbox 360 and I'm still collecting physical games for it
360 era was a peak gaming
Ah the Xbox 360. One of my first gaming consoles. Played so much Black Ops 2 and so much GTAV when it came out before heading to school. I'd say it stands the test of time alongside the PS3.
I was actually cleaning a closet the other day and my old 360 was just sitting there. We plugged it back in and relived all the old Minecraft worlds my kids built.
Life changed when upgrading from ps2 to 360 and ps3
It was the 360 S, not the slim. and yes you could easily swap the hard drives, what are you talking about? I literally worked for xbox support from 2011 to 2016. The S console that came out around holidays of 2011 had a huge flaw with the 4gb models, the flash memory would die, and the console was designed to read that first, so it didn't matter if you put in a hard drive. You would try to update one day, it would fail because the flash storage was dead, they would call us and complain that the update broke their xbox and we would have to replace it, assuming it was in warranty. In my experience these calls were far more frequent than the RROD. Or 3 red lights they demanded we call it
I remember Skyrim took AGEEEES to load. It took like a full minute so you could play again after opening a door. When the Xbox One came I played the whole game again and it was super fast.
Playing halo reach on my Xbox 360 back in 2010 was amazing
Still have my 2 360's and have games on them that you cant evewn get anymore. Love them and have been playing games here and there with my son now. Greatest system
360 slim had a easily removable hard drive. It’s on the top under a door with a button. Once the door is open, the drive slides out.
My Xbox 360 gets red ring all the time. I just unplugged it and plugged it back in and it was fixed.
Still have my 360 after all this time, same with my ps3, still sad to think about that these consoles are considered retro now.
Not having wifi was one of my favorite features, made xbox live even greater
Lasted so much longer than the Wii U and 3DS stores at least!
I had a gen 1 360 that didn't have an hdmi port. Trying to find an adapter to make it work on modern tv's had the best buy employees speechless. Finally found a VGA adapter and it was amazing. Still miss it to this day! RRoD fatality.
X360 controllers are still the golden standard for pc gaming. I owned a usb 360 controller for years before owning a 360. Still own the controller
got the 360 on launch night. maybe a month later, RRoD. they actually had me send it in to Microsoft for a "fix". the "fixed" version also RRoD'd a month or so later -_-
whats funny is i had the original 360 and have yet to get the red rink of death until late 2018 which is just an overheating issue due to the thermal paste being non existent,
the rrod was an easy fix just needed a solder reflow which is why the towel trick worked which also caused more damage.
Actually the issue and desing error was the gpu, the gpu die had solder balls between the substrate, and those balls would crack, the problem is that you cannot reflow those balls neither reball because you have to get crazy high tempetatures that at that point would kill the gpu die (the die is the silicon chip), so even if you get it fix by just appying heat, or even replace the entire gpu for a new one, the gpu would always die just by using the console. The Slim model would fix this problem desing
they did the towel trick when you brought in your 360?! in an actual store?!
you could just send it in to MS for warranty and they would send you a new (well different, think they were refurbished) console. had to do it twice within warranty (which doesn't start again when you get a replacement console btw so I also bought the new black model when my warranty had run out)
Dude every single shot is a thing of art
i still have my console ... but power button turns red..
And I still have my original Xbox 360 I got from the Mountain Dew "Every 10 Minutes" giveaway and got it a few days before it officially came out. And it still works, though I did have to modify it to fix the Red Ring of Death.
Getting home from school playing black ops 2 was the best Xbox 360 was awsome 😎
Most games are backwards compatible but for people like me that miss old WWE games on 360, it sucks we can’t play those on series. South Park let’s go tower defense comes to mind too. MVC2 also.
But Microsoft seriously pulled through with their warranties on the 360. I could ship my console out and have it back the same week at that time which was actually kind of crazy. It shouldn’t have happened in the first place but they honestly did amazing handling that issue for their customers. They were devoted to keeping people happy and not losing their fans
No way of getting Left 4 Dead 1&2 on a series S or digitally now. Criminal for such a masterpiece..
Wait u can't buy those digitally?
most racing games arent backwards compatible due to licenses, also there are quite a few games not backwards compatible
A real shame is that Project Gotham Racing 4 isn't in the backwards compatibility list, a great game imho.
Tip if you buy Xbox and xbox360 games on Xbox one that are not on the 360 store using your xbox360 console and goto your downloads and it shows up and can be downloaded to the 360 console haven't tried it on the x or s
the moment i saw bo3 i was like "theres no way its discountered", i mean, after all its activison
My boys pooled their money and bought an xbox 360 a few years after it first came out, and my older boy still has it and it still works. When we built our house, satellite internet was all we could get, so they had to wait till midnight to start downloading a new game, and it took hours. that may be why he wanted my external hard drive...
Some xbox 360 games are offsale on the modern xbox marketplace