When compared to moving the "Black" and "White" buttons on the original Xbox controller to the shoulders on Xbox 360, this modification seems superfluous at best and a detriment at worst. The new bumpers split opinions at Polygon - some editors feel they're more difficult to click than the 360's shoulder buttons. Not all the changes are home runs, though. And despite its familiar elements and concepts, the Xbox One still manages a genuine sense of wonder, all without losing sight of the strong gaming foundation the Xbox was built on. While the Xbox 360 was upgraded, the Xbox One was developed in parallel, but as a beginning, not an end. This is what Microsoft has been working toward all these years, effectively showing its next-generation hand as early as 2008. So when examining the Xbox One, it may seem familiar. Despite its investment in entertainment, the Xbox 360 was always a video game console.īut there was a sense that the Xbox 360's greater aspirations as a mainstream portal for entertainment were restrained by hardware created before our current age of streaming video, tablets and smartphones. The Xbox Live Arcade program made games like Castle Crashers, Braid and Limbo into household names. Between first-party exclusives like Halo, third-party console exclusives like Left 4 Dead and timed exclusives like The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, the Xbox 360 never wanted for games.
That focus on entertainment never diminished the Xbox 360's gaming bona fides, however. In 2010, the first iteration of Kinect and the platform’s voice and gesture controls redefined the 360 once again. In 2008, the "New Xbox Experience" delivered an entirely new interface, customizable player Avatars, eight-player party chat and Netflix streaming, a first for video game consoles. Over that eight-year span, the Xbox 360 underwent radical transformations. It’s so different, in fact, that it helps to think of the company’s new Xbox One as an evolution, not of the original Xbox 360 but of the one that exists today. The Xbox 360 that exists in 2013 bears little resemblance to the console that Microsoft launched in 2005.
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