The XBOX 720 was so hype in my 7-year old mind. It's funny that its very dumb name is unironically better than the current XBOX naming system we have now.
I truly believe that Xbox 720 would have been a better name than Xbox One. It's much more distinct and memorable, and you would never be able to mistake it for any other version of the xbox. Plus most gamers were already calling it that, so brand recognition was high. The next gen afterwards would have been the Xbox 1080, which also would have worked.
When you said “their plan was for people to stream games from the cloud” I literally choked on my drink. This concept was thought up in fucking 2010-11…. In 2024 my internet can’t even consistently stream Xcloud without constant artefacts and high latency, imagine what the average DSL connection from 10-12 years ago would be like streaming Xbox One games
It wasn't a new idea, the idea of "Cloud Gaming" was thought up and patented in the late 2000s, and a service called "OnLive" was launched in 2010 and ran until 2015, Google essentially bought the patents and relaunched their own idea called "Stadia" from 2019 to 2023, it also failed because...nobody was using it, and the input lag was horrendous, there is another service called Shadow PC, but rather than being specifically for Games, it's a fully functional windows 11 PC that you remote into...it works fine and has minimal and barely noticeable input lag, it's just really fucking expensive at $49.99 a month, you're better off getting a Gaming PC on payments and just paying the $50 a month to Klarna or Affirm
No, no, you misunderstand, they would have just kept adding 360 to the number, so it would be 720, then 1080, and then 1440. Still beyond the scope of most gamers to add, but sleeker.
@@UDontCare0a bunch of zoomers keep saying this about thing that they either don’t remember at all or were like 3 during the events of too, it’s not a core memory if you forgot it and were a literal toddler during it dude. Not directed at the commenters age but I’m just saying in general, like I see people posting “CoRE mEMoRY unLOcKeD” about the Xbox 360 Blades dash and they were literally born in 2008 😭
@@PurriahYour being rather rude, and I’m reporting your behavior. Atleast if your going to be rude, be good at it. Because you aren’t very good at it bloke.
I just wanna to say that I plugged in the ol' 360 around October/November of last year, and saw that they were still selling modern movies on the store pages. One ad in particular was for Black Adam.
This is because they don't build a special version of the store for each console. They have one store on the backend that they all connect to. As long as the APIs for that store do not change every console will continue to be able to pull in new content.
I do remember the Xbox 720 being in this one book I remember reading in 2011 called The Lemonade Crime. I don't remember much about the book but the one thing that stood out was how one of the characters invited the main character to his house so they could play on his Xbox 720 (If I remember right this kids dad was supposed to the son of some Microsoft higher up so therefore he had a Xbox 720 prototype somehow) I also believe that this Xbox 720 was like some kind of Kinect or something because they played the game without a controller
To your point at 3:00 ish. I remember coming home and having all my friends on conference call as were all downloading the new patch to change the hub.
I remember all the rumors leading up to it before that E3 reveal Then the massive disappointment that came from the TV TV TV TV over and over Never forget "We have a console for those kind of people who can't always be online it's called an Xbox 360"
The name xbox 360 itself is taken because the xbox execs "don't want a number lower than PS3". In hindsight the reasoning was absolutely stupid but it worked wonders. And then Xbox One happened, abbreviated as the Xbone and then xbox one x abreviated as XOX. I guess worse reason but good name is better than whatever the xbone name was
thanks for mentioning the throwaway 'advertisement' in real steel, i saw that movie like 2 or so years after xbox one and remember finding that background joke very funny
i know this is unrelated, but i'm so glad this video appeared in my reccommendations because i was searching for this channel for *months* and finally found it again 😄
Xbox 720 was the thing of legend back in middle school, I still think the One should've been the 720, I still to this day cannot tell you what the current gen Xbox is called, great naming system Microsoft
This just makes me sad because I'm all for Microaoft's original plan. However, the failure of Windows Phone (the best smartphone ever) ruined both Xbox's and Window's trajectory
They even had efforts for porting some games on both of/Xbox/phones. That was a grandiose initiative that obviously didn't take off. But for a while when it worked while they pumped money into it, for 2-3 years, if was really special time (I owned a few Nokia and then Microsoft phones)
During that time Microsoft's problem was rarely the actual device. The consumer side of Microsoft was hitting it out of the park, and often may have been a little bit ahead of their time. The problems were with behind the scenes aspects (i.e. development tools were half-baked at best, with little buy in from internal Microsoft teams, leading to little buy in from 3rd parties) and poor marketing (couldn't make the brand seem cool). If they had put more effort into the development side of things, and distanced their products from the Microsoft/Windows brands they might have seen more success.
Imagine if they did release the 720 next generation and put it in one of the crazy cases that people had rendered back in the day where it literally looked alien!
I still can’t believe how stupid Microsoft was for removing the media playback function in games and even now they could easily implement it on the Series X|S but still don’t
The 360E was actually quite good and I'd say relevant! It was by all accounts the best machine to play 360 games on. A last version of a soon to be last gen giving you the definitive experience for all the games you currently own. Remember that Xbox One didn't launch with backwards compatibility. For anyone interested in the console market but wanting to hold off on buying the Xbox One until there were more games, the more affordable and ready to use 360E was right there. I wish more end-of-generation consoles existed.
@@leewooboi the series x is more or less a hardware revision than a successor, Something like the new 3ds Not to mention that this ‘successor’ pretty much debunked the Xbox one making it entirely worthless
Every time a company talks about cloud gaming I'm reminded of the quote "No internet connection is ever going to be powerful enough to make light travel faster."
Just in case what - Whimsu has another channel called "KnwledgeHusk" where they uploaded more videos in similar style, but on different topics, more related to history
Wow 720 looks like a good game from 1986. I would've just called it Xbox 2 instead of Xbox One, but 720 is good also. Then call the next Xbox the Xbox 2 if the other one was called Xbox 720.
There was no reason it shouldn't have been called the Xbox 720. Yeah, obviously they'd have to change it up afterwards because saying "1080" and up is becoming a mouthful, but they could've easily gotten away with Xbox 720.
When I first heard the term 'Xbox 720', I almost had an aneurysm because the name was so bad. I ended up winning a bet when the Xbox One came out. A bad name to be sure, but not as 'I drink pee to cure my asthma' stupid as 720.
i think the statement "the wii had won the 7th gen" is very misleading, yes, they sold more units, but they sold much-much-much fewer games both physically and, especially, digitally
Microsoft wants total domination of the living room, so does Sony. The idea that you only need one device or input for all of your entertainment needs is kind of appealing NGL
Focusing on tv and announcing that you can’t play used games (a feature ditched before launch). Should be studied in marketing classes as one of the biggest cases of misunderstanding not only the target consumer but consumers in general. No one cared about Kinect on 360, don’t force ppl to pay 100 bucks for it. People that wanna watch tv ALREADY DO SO. They are buying an Xbox for halo, not the news. wtf were they smoking 😂😂😂
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The XBOX 720 was so hype in my 7-year old mind. It's funny that its very dumb name is unironically better than the current XBOX naming system we have now.
it sounds dumb but it instantly gets across the idea of "The 360, but twice as good" which is a lot better than "this is one xbox."
Maybe the 10th gen Xbox will be called the Xbox now
There's a naming system?
nah and its not funny
Certainly better than calling you third console the Xbox ONE
I truly believe that Xbox 720 would have been a better name than Xbox One. It's much more distinct and memorable, and you would never be able to mistake it for any other version of the xbox. Plus most gamers were already calling it that, so brand recognition was high.
The next gen afterwards would have been the Xbox 1080, which also would have worked.
But Xbox one is 1080.
@@ddsjgvk More like XBone
and then they could have named the series x/s the "xbox 4k" to not only advertise the 4k capability but also have a regular naming scheme again
Xbox 1080 TI
Weren't many people joking about that name, given that it would sound like the next Xbox wouldn't have been able to put out anything more than 720p?
That 2010 era of xbox was definitely a "Silicon valley making stuff for people in silicon valley" moment.
Good thing thats behind us.... Oh wait.
When you said “their plan was for people to stream games from the cloud” I literally choked on my drink. This concept was thought up in fucking 2010-11…. In 2024 my internet can’t even consistently stream Xcloud without constant artefacts and high latency, imagine what the average DSL connection from 10-12 years ago would be like streaming Xbox One games
It wasn't a new idea, the idea of "Cloud Gaming" was thought up and patented in the late 2000s, and a service called "OnLive" was launched in 2010 and ran until 2015, Google essentially bought the patents and relaunched their own idea called "Stadia" from 2019 to 2023, it also failed because...nobody was using it, and the input lag was horrendous, there is another service called Shadow PC, but rather than being specifically for Games, it's a fully functional windows 11 PC that you remote into...it works fine and has minimal and barely noticeable input lag, it's just really fucking expensive at $49.99 a month, you're better off getting a Gaming PC on payments and just paying the $50 a month to Klarna or Affirm
Microsoft was probably worried that its customers would have a hard time adding 720+720 and eventually 1440+1440
When the number gets to big, they could release the Y box, then eventually the Zbox.
No, no, you misunderstand, they would have just kept adding 360 to the number, so it would be 720, then 1080, and then 1440. Still beyond the scope of most gamers to add, but sleeker.
@@the_real_Kurt_YarishCheers, bloke,
this unlocked a core memory in my mind
@@UDontCare0yeah. Either they don’t understand what a core memory is or it reminded them of something loosely related.
@@UDontCare0a bunch of zoomers keep saying this about thing that they either don’t remember at all or were like 3 during the events of too, it’s not a core memory if you forgot it and were a literal toddler during it dude. Not directed at the commenters age but I’m just saying in general, like I see people posting “CoRE mEMoRY unLOcKeD” about the Xbox 360 Blades dash and they were literally born in 2008 😭
@@UDontCare0Hey mate, don’t act like such a muppet.
Why can’t you just be a good bloke, like the rest of us narcissistic chaps.
@@PurriahYour being rather rude, and I’m reporting your behavior.
Atleast if your going to be rude, be good at it.
Because you aren’t very good at it bloke.
I just wanna to say that I plugged in the ol' 360 around October/November of last year, and saw that they were still selling modern movies on the store pages. One ad in particular was for Black Adam.
This is because they don't build a special version of the store for each console. They have one store on the backend that they all connect to. As long as the APIs for that store do not change every console will continue to be able to pull in new content.
@@evancombs5159 The Xbox 360 is still a great media room console. It can do anything.
Meh….I’m waiting for Xbox 1080p 😎
Xbox series 4k/8k
@@tree4318My kids probably will play that 😅
I do remember the Xbox 720 being in this one book I remember reading in 2011 called The Lemonade Crime. I don't remember much about the book but the one thing that stood out was how one of the characters invited the main character to his house so they could play on his Xbox 720 (If I remember right this kids dad was supposed to the son of some Microsoft higher up so therefore he had a Xbox 720 prototype somehow) I also believe that this Xbox 720 was like some kind of Kinect or something because they played the game without a controller
My dad works at Microsoft and he said Xbox 720 is coming out next week or something
your dad is steve joj?!??!?
To your point at 3:00 ish. I remember coming home and having all my friends on conference call as were all downloading the new patch to change the hub.
I remember all the rumors leading up to it before that E3 reveal
Then the massive disappointment that came from the TV TV TV TV over and over
Never forget
"We have a console for those kind of people who can't always be online it's called an Xbox 360"
Hope you're doing well and a Happy New Year to you, Whimsu! Day just got better with your upload.
The name xbox 360 itself is taken because the xbox execs "don't want a number lower than PS3". In hindsight the reasoning was absolutely stupid but it worked wonders. And then Xbox One happened, abbreviated as the Xbone and then xbox one x abreviated as XOX. I guess worse reason but good name is better than whatever the xbone name was
damn, we were actually on the verge of greatness, or at least something better than xbone. Btw love this retrospectives
You should make a video on just how bad microsoft messed up the xbone reveal
TV!
Would've made more sense than a fucking Xbox One.
Xbox 360, 720, we would be on the Xbox 1080 by now.
XBOX 4K, 8K, 16K :D
Xbox one is 1080p
Reminds me of that one video with “bodies” by drowning pool and had all those fun mockups.
Loved the controller with like 16 joysticks 🤣
I completely forgot that the xbox one was $100 more than ps4 at launch. That's just asking for trouble
Well I'm more of a Wii Phone kind of guy
this will be gaming in 2013
the ibox
the wii phone.
I seriously miss Smart Glass.
I wonder if WIndows Mixed Reality has any ties back to that 720 vr headset thing
thanks for mentioning the throwaway 'advertisement' in real steel, i saw that movie like 2 or so years after xbox one and remember finding that background joke very funny
Glad to see you’re voice sounds more hyped than in your console menu review video
i know this is unrelated, but i'm so glad this video appeared in my reccommendations because i was searching for this channel for *months* and finally found it again 😄
Xbox 720 was the thing of legend back in middle school, I still think the One should've been the 720, I still to this day cannot tell you what the current gen Xbox is called, great naming system Microsoft
I don't know how old you are. But I lost count on the PlayStation after 3. It's 5 now right. Just seems weird to say
@@ddsjgvk It's not a weird thing to say because "Xbox Series X" is a stupid as fuck name
This just makes me sad because I'm all for Microaoft's original plan. However, the failure of Windows Phone (the best smartphone ever) ruined both Xbox's and Window's trajectory
They even had efforts for porting some games on both of/Xbox/phones. That was a grandiose initiative that obviously didn't take off. But for a while when it worked while they pumped money into it, for 2-3 years, if was really special time (I owned a few Nokia and then Microsoft phones)
During that time Microsoft's problem was rarely the actual device. The consumer side of Microsoft was hitting it out of the park, and often may have been a little bit ahead of their time. The problems were with behind the scenes aspects (i.e. development tools were half-baked at best, with little buy in from internal Microsoft teams, leading to little buy in from 3rd parties) and poor marketing (couldn't make the brand seem cool). If they had put more effort into the development side of things, and distanced their products from the Microsoft/Windows brands they might have seen more success.
It was a smartphone OS, not a smartphone. And it was awesome.
Its happening
I hope that days after this video, the document (coincidentally) shows up somewhere.
In Minecraft of course
I remember me and a couple friends in high school during lunch hour, just about speculating and talking of the new xbox 720 subject.
Imagine if they did release the 720 next generation and put it in one of the crazy cases that people had rendered back in the day where it literally looked alien!
I like that his Rosey the robot sexbot is now a mainstay.
Advertising and aggressive monetization killed AAA smartphone gaming.
Boutta make me turn 720 degrees and walk away
NGL a lot of these features would have been so cool for the XBOX One if they brought it to market.
I remember thinking the handheld xbox needed to be called the xbox 180
The cat is back on the pool. I like that.
Now I'm missing the googly boogli plop, doodles.
Idk why the robot cam is so hilarious to me
XBOX should still make the 720. It would be so hype, they make a couple new franchises, fix their issues and bam
I still can’t believe how stupid Microsoft was for removing the media playback function in games and even now they could easily implement it on the Series X|S but still don’t
Still hurts
The 360E was actually quite good and I'd say relevant! It was by all accounts the best machine to play 360 games on. A last version of a soon to be last gen giving you the definitive experience for all the games you currently own. Remember that Xbox One didn't launch with backwards compatibility. For anyone interested in the console market but wanting to hold off on buying the Xbox One until there were more games, the more affordable and ready to use 360E was right there. I wish more end-of-generation consoles existed.
Keep it buddy, I really enjoy your videos and vernacularic attitude. My apologies for mistaking you for Cody from alt history hub.
I find it so funny that somehow Xbox came up with an even worse name than "Xbox 720"
Why don’t you shade smooth in blender?
In skateboard terms 540 would be next, my friends and I used to argue about this all the time 😅
As a kid I always thought it was going to be Xbox 720 because of the movie Real Steel
back when things were calm and on track...
Red ring of death was “calm and on track”?
The war on terror was "calm and on track"?
I did the tv thing on Xbox
I got to use a hololens soon after it was released. Yeah, that thing was nowhere near ready for gaming. Or much in general.
I was honestly hoping this was a leak of a new console despite the title because we still have no news of an *actual* successor to the Xbox One
The series X is the official successor. Not a great one, mind you, but it is one.
@@leewooboi the series x is more or less a hardware revision than a successor, Something like the new 3ds
Not to mention that this ‘successor’ pretty much debunked the Xbox one making it entirely worthless
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"D… V… R?" So, like… a VHS Cassette recorder / player? 👴
Every time a company talks about cloud gaming I'm reminded of the quote "No internet connection is ever going to be powerful enough to make light travel faster."
I heard about the 720 back in 2007
This man has one of the most unique and pleasing aesthetics on UA-cam.
He's back!
Just in case what - Whimsu has another channel called "KnwledgeHusk" where they uploaded more videos in similar style, but on different topics, more related to history
Imagine if at this point we were in the xbox 1080 gen lol
I have never seen an xbox 360E, never knew microsoft launched this
yall remember all the "the fray - how to save a life" dubs about consoles? man, dumb times
I'll keep plaaaying my peee esss three
0:25 well that's just censorship with extra steps/ justifications
Wow 720 looks like a good game from 1986. I would've just called it Xbox 2 instead of Xbox One, but 720 is good also. Then call the next Xbox the Xbox 2 if the other one was called Xbox 720.
keeping the games in the family is turning bros skin blue.
Bring back the intro pls i love the intro
They should just call their next console Xbox 720
People would be so hyped
No call it Xbox elite
Xbox. Xbox 360. Xbox one. Xbox series x. Xbox 720. Terrible naming convention, funny tho
If only we could of got the Xbox 420
I would have actually preferred them calling it the xbox 720 insted of what it was actually called the xbox one.
whimsu pal, did you have to remind us that cable is not irrelevant and there are kids who probably dont even know what a cable is
Im convinced calling it the 720 would have made it a more successful console
Ah, the good old days
I would probably get an Xbox vr if I came across it
Xbox 900 Tony Hawk edition.
Xbox will inevitably release a system or something named xbox 720 i just know it
When they took away the ability to watch tv while gaming i stopped playing xbox😅 i miss it.
The pool is back!
Thank you, The Surf Shark.
I prefer that name.
Why do they call it Xbox 720? Because when you see it you'll turn 720 degrees and walk away
I remember the fake news around the sucessor of the Xbox 360 being called Xbox 720. So many photoshopped pictures.
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There was no reason it shouldn't have been called the Xbox 720. Yeah, obviously they'd have to change it up afterwards because saying "1080" and up is becoming a mouthful, but they could've easily gotten away with Xbox 720.
When I first heard the term 'Xbox 720', I almost had an aneurysm because the name was so bad. I ended up winning a bet when the Xbox One came out. A bad name to be sure, but not as 'I drink pee to cure my asthma' stupid as 720.
The pool returns!
So Xbox predicted game pass on the quest 3 13 years before it happened… interesting
i think the statement "the wii had won the 7th gen" is very misleading, yes, they sold more units, but they sold much-much-much fewer games both physically and, especially, digitally
name change?
What about the Xbox 890.
reminder that xbox did not lose the console war in 2001, like they say, but in 2013 when they killed their brand with one press conference.
Microsoft wants total domination of the living room, so does Sony. The idea that you only need one device or input for all of your entertainment needs is kind of appealing NGL
Funny cuz I have a trillion consoles and not enough space for all of them
Why do you keep changing your channel name and creating new channels without telling us about it?
Dude sounds like Alf
They should call it Xbox One Two U Pro Max Series F.
What about xbox 480
If you think about it, 720 makes more sense because that’s around the resolution of games on the console then, lol.
Nobody actually wanted to use their console for media. It was just the best choice at the time.
Please open a verification can.
Wowzers.
scorpion was a better name than x
Focusing on tv and announcing that you can’t play used games (a feature ditched before launch).
Should be studied in marketing classes as one of the biggest cases of misunderstanding not only the target consumer but consumers in general.
No one cared about Kinect on 360, don’t force ppl to pay 100 bucks for it.
People that wanna watch tv ALREADY DO SO. They are buying an Xbox for halo, not the news.
wtf were they smoking 😂😂😂
This is a joke right? This is what me and the bois would joke the next 'xbawks' would be after the 360 lmao