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I’m gonna hug all my retro consoles real close tonight.
Age is just a number, or something.
Halo 3, Portal, and Super Mario Galaxy released closer to the launch of the Sega Genesis, the original Gameboy, and the fall of the Berlin Wall than today.
My back pain already makes me feel old, no need to throw memes at me.
The Xbox One is 12 years old. 🎁
Keep in mind the launch model of the 360 didn’t have an HDMI port, most people still had a CRT, and it didn’t even come with component cables, there was only a composite lead in the box, you had to pay extra for component cables if you wanted them.
It’s been twice as long since the 360 released as it was between the PS1 and the 360.
I hate to break it to you but… It’s been over 20 years. It’s more retro now than the SNES was when the 360 came out.
Frankly, the reason this is shocking to people is that games, graphically and mechanically, made leaps and bounds from the SNES to the 360, and gave largely stagnanted from the 360 to now.
I don’t believe you.
You didn’t hate that at all.
You’re hurting me.
This episode is 30 years old.
No u
Shit, that saying is over 20 years old.
Wow the diminishing returns between that time really comes into focus.
The line between 4th and 5th gen (SNES to N64) was enormous, 5th to 6th was pretty significant, 6th to 7th was noticeable, and it’s been 20 years of small improvements since then.
I mean yeah. There isn’t that much of a drastic shift in game design, except for the bleeding of RPG mechanics into more genres, more roguelite mechanics in indie games (choose one of 3) and having equipment systems in multiplayer FPSes. The biggest hit of 2024 was basically solitaire.
It’s hardly that much more different.
Wheras, going from snes through ps1 to xbox 360, things went from 2d (and extremely crude 3d) to textured 3d with jank controls to high fidelity games with standardised controls. Not much changed after that. The huge “innovations” of VR, motion controls, are basically niche due to economic factors, so people aren’t exactly having commonplace motion control VR experiences that put them in the game and comparing that to ducking behind cover in gears of war. They’re comparing making cover in Fortnite with ducking behind cover in gears of war.
¿Que? The 360 has a LOT of excellent games.
I think they’re agreeing; game tech improved a lot more from the SNES to the 360 than from the 360 to now.
I meant like graphically.
Me then: “Haha ‘time marches on’ what a cool phrase”
Me now: “Yo, time, can we maybe slow the pace or take the break?” Time: “No. Only march on.” Me: visibly aging
I already have Father Time beating my ass before I even started playing Hades II lmao
*crumbles into pieces like a Dry Bones*
I ded
It’s now 2026, so Zelda 20 years ago was:
Breath of the Wild is almost 10 years old.
Why am I still on this thread?? I keep taking psychic damage from Father Time!!!
And still costs $60/$80 with the DLC!
Except much lower resolution than that.
And noticing that this tweet is already 5 years old is the cherry on top.
The tweet was slightly off then, Gamecube was just released at the end of 2001 and Wind Waker is 2003.
Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were 1999 and 2000 though.
In my opinion, no. For me it’s not about time, 360 for the most part plays just like any other present day console. Only difference is that development and marketing budgets went out of control (a trend that was already underway during later seventh generation), and the relentless stream of CoD, Halo and GTA clones stopped (THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT).
Jump, same. For me it starts at N64 era.
Hey Saints Row 3 was actually funny
When consoles got “accounts” and avatars, that was the death of them. Theyre just subscription dumb terminal spyware now.
It has Kinect Star Wars. And… that’s basically it.
GTA clones stopped (THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT).
I mean, open world games are commonplace. It’s like saying “doomclones” stopped. Yeah, they became fpses.
but on the other hand “realistic crime open world games” kinda gta knockoffs were more commonplace back then.
Unfortunately, somehow, gta feels like a gta knockoff. I didn’t even finish V, and the satire just seemed less biting, and late to the punch. Like the jokes it was making had already been made elsewhere, so it felt stale and done before.
It is over 20 years old… Fuck.
If you had asked me before I looked it up, I probably would’ve placed the original Xbox at 20 years old. Time is flying by.
The one in the picture is an xbox 360 s which is only 15 years old if that helps
The picture is an xbox 360 s
it’s an xbox 360 S which is different to a xbox one s, not to be confused with the xbox series s.
Also don’t confuse it with the Xbox 360 E.
And under no circumstances confuse any other Microsoft products with each other, except under confusing circumstances.
Why the fuck they wouldnt brand with this strategy is beyond me. I came up with this like 16 years ago and stand by it.
Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox 720
Xbox 900
I’ve heard the reason for the name of XBox 360’s successor was that some marketing geniuses heard that most people called it “the three-sixty” for short, and thought “Great! Let’s call this the XBox One, and it will be referred to as The One! Like Neo!!”
And then, everyone collectively agreed on “XBone” 🦴
So the Xbox 720 is twice as good as the one before it, but the 900 only gives you a 25% increase? Who’d buy that garbage?
Phew, almost thought I was old there for a second
There’s more time between the release of the 360 and (picking a random game that released this week) Pathologic 3, than there is between then and the release of Super Mario Bros on the NES
It isn’t retro because it’s beefy enough to not be emulated easily. And yes, by that definition, the Wii is retro.
Bad definition
The Switch is overall beefier and is emulated very well. Emulation is about the architecture and level of interest, not just specs.
And the switch
Well, it’s over 20 years old now, so probably. It’s also really easy to softmod recently. Last year I got one for $25 at a thrift shop and modded it, so it’s also a great time to get one.
So far, I only played Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie on it though, and messed around a bit with the first release of Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition.
Can you get XBL Arcade games running on it? Half the games I’d want to play were on the arcade rather than disc games.
I actually only tested XBLA games, so yeah!
Is the softmod on it persistent between reboots? Last I looked into it you had to run the exploit every time.
Yep, that’s still true. However, you can install ABadAvatar onto a USB stick which will run the exploit automatically upon startup. It usually takes about a minute for the exploit to successfully start and occasionally crashes (only happened to me once).
Fact: I have never seen an Xbox 360 in my life.
I still use my old wired 360 controller to play games on my laptop. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Same! I love the form factor of it and it still hasn’t given out yet. Only thing that made me even think about wanting to replace it was the haptic/adaptive triggers on the PS5 controller. Don’t like the form factor but man those triggers are nice.
Its a nice controller but they are fragile af, look at them wrong and they start to act up.
