I have a mandela effect thing going on with the original Xbox.
>early 2000s
>everybody i knew who played games had a PS2 or a Gamecube
>literally nobody owned an Xbox
>didn't even know an Xbox existed
>2006
>suddenly start hearing about the Xbox 360. my friend's dad has one
>2007 i get one myself
>think its an entirely new console
>actually its the 2nd xbox and this new game Halo i have for it had two prior entries on the 1st xbox
I swear I didn't hear a single thing about an "Xbox" before the 360 came out. Nobody owned one, nobody played one. Halo didn't exist. The GTAs were all PS2 exclusives in my mind. Then it turns out that not only did the Xbox exist, but it somehow sold more than the Gamecube (which I remember being super popular)? Did I switch timelines or something?
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>be op
>don't follow gaming at all
>only have 2 friends, one owns a PS2 and one owns a gamecube
>"literally nobody owned an xbox!"
Wrong. I've always been a hardcore gamer. I read many Nintendo and Playstation gaming magazines in the early 2000s. Most of my friends gamed. And yet in my world, such a thing as an "X-Box" did not exist. I even had a friend who had a Dreamcast that we used to play fighting games on. But no Xbox.
And how old were you in the early 2000s?
>I read many Nintendo and Playstation gaming magazines in the early 2000s.
Well you're not going to learn about Xbox games if you only read house organ magazines from Nintendo and Sony.
I definitely think an answer to
will give us a clue to what's wrong.
However, we also need to know where you're from. If you grew up on a in Japan or something then I'd believe you, but maybe some other countries were dead zones for the Xbox?
What causes someone to bother making a thread thise mundane?
Frail egotists asserting how their memory can't be wrong and instead how the entire universe must be the wrong universe
In my timeline I was a soldier in the Zaltorian empire. We were just about to conquer the Maldiens when I took a nap and woke up in California. I then naturally learned about the Xbox, and here I am. I still miss my fellow war brothers, but I know that one day the proper timeline will return.
>I know that one day the proper timeline will return.
And with it 1000 years of the Zaltorian emire! Enjoy your videogames while you can infidel.
Halo 1 and Halo 2 were the system sellers. The rest of the library was OK, but people bought Xbox to play Halo plain. The rest of the games were just an added bonus.
The OG Xbox probably did sell more than Gamecube because of Xbox Live. Gamecube either didn't have online mulitplayer, or it had some janky ass shit. It's funny thinking that Nintendo still hasn't gotten online multiplayer right after all these years.
>It's funny thinking that Nintendo still hasn't gotten online multiplayer right after all these years.
Switch online is fine. If it had the social functions that the Wii U/3DS had like Miiverse then it would be pretty much perfect.
Does Switch even have voice chat? Last Nintendo console I owned was the Wii U. The online multiplayer was OK, but lacked voice chat. Games like Mario Kart and Splatoon would be so much fun with voice chat enabled but Nintendo needs to protect their autistic player base from the outside world.
Voice chat is for manchildren.
Voice chat makes the game feel more alive. Playing online without communication just feels like you're playing with bots. I can't imagine the chaos of having 8 people on Mario Kart on mics or playing Mario Party together. That would be a lot of fun. Nintendo needs to protect the babies from the big bad internet though.
Yeah no, you're just looking for mental gymnastics to get around admitting you can't get human interaction outside of online video games.
I have no problem enjoying the sounds of the game and seeing all the other players as real people, and even when I don't just want to hear that I'd rather call friends over or put on my King Crimson albums than listen to whiny neckbeards and squeaky teenagers breathing into their mic.
Yea you know what's great about life? Having choices. If you don't want voice chat, you can simply disable it. Giving nobody the option is stupid.
Also, voice chat is in 100% of modern consoles and games. I can't think of anything outside Nintendo that has no communication or social tools. 40wwg
youre a frickin moron OP
Meanwhile I had no idea the gc exists because I only saw PS2 and xbox in local magazines
Sounds like somewhere between 2000 and 2006 you were born and learned enough words to understand what game systems were called.
I had a buddy who had one, but other than that nobody gave a shit about it, I'd see the magazines and ignore them. Halo was probably one of the biggest let-downs in gaming for me, hyped for years as some great console shooter, then I try it out and it's a watered down PC FPS with regen health and a 2 weapon limit. I'm glad I spent my co-op time with friends playing Timesplitters instead, which was miles better.
I remember the lead up to the XBOX launch, when it appeared that the console was absolutely the sports gamer console. As such, I had little interest in owning one, especially compared to the Gamecube. A year or so later I wound up getting one, though.
>didn't even know an Xbox existed
Seems like lots of kids existed in these weird little bubbles of their friend groups and the print material they read, like the kids who somehow never knew about the Saturn growing up.
Everyone in my town had an Xbox because of the Xbox live ecosystem. You want to play online with everyone you know, so everyone had an Xbox