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  • -The seventh generation rolls along and Microsoft holds a sneak

  • attack on everyone and released the Xbox 360 a year

  • earlier than the PlayStation 3. -I'm here to start you

  • on a journey into the future of entertainment. That future

  • starts right here, right now. -So, a year goes by

  • with Xbox 360, the only next gen HD console on

  • the market. And people started go into it. -There's four

  • things that the Xbox 360 probably should be recognized for

  • in history, one is that Xbox Live. -Double kill. -The

  • idea of popularizing an online service with console game of

  • the old play against each other and with each other,

  • or to download copies of Minecraft to share world together

  • and Xbox Live has been a huge force in gaming

  • connect. It didn't really lead to any great game but

  • the idea of jumping around in front of your television

  • it made the game even more of a mass appeal

  • like to the achievements. -We've also added a new concept

  • called Achievements. Now, these are sort of a record of

  • everything you've accomplished across your entire library of game. -People

  • loved that idea. People would play the worst games ever

  • just so that they could raise their achievement score. You

  • can download NetFlix and you can stream movies to your

  • console. -Without realizing it, Sony is giving them and Sony

  • was giving them the real thinking they'd hang themselves, I

  • think. -PS3, they sort of came in arrogant and they

  • came in saying, you know, you're gonna get a second

  • job to be able to afford the system. Meanwhile, Sony

  • thought that they could come out and rest on their

  • laurels, be the PlayStation brand and get everybody back, but

  • it can't, they don't have anything with it. They double

  • down, right? Oh, well, they PlayStation 2 sold well because

  • of DVD, so now the new one will Blu-Ray. -With

  • so much space on a single Blu-Ray disc, the only

  • thing you'll need more of is time. -But again Sony

  • is betting on technology, people don't even have the technology

  • for you. How many people when the PlayStation 3 come

  • out have an HD TV at that time and so

  • the PS3 was not a very good machine for a

  • couple of years. -I had everything under control until they

  • blew up the boat. -Then Sony got smart, they recognized

  • other ways, they found humility, they redesigned the machine and

  • slimmed it down. And the PS3 in the long run

  • after a slow start turned out to be a quite

  • an enjoyable machine to play games on. You have a

  • really wonderful array of games. -So, what you got? -What

  • do I got? Two words; Montage. -Now all of this

  • has happened, the HD twins are colliding, ducking it out.

  • Sony is losing and again in the background there's [unk]

  • for a week. -We would like to play. -The Wii

  • came out kind of out of nowhere, it was a

  • console that everyone could play. That's where largely I think

  • such a popular, popular hit. -So many people throughout the

  • industry, myself included, we'd see it and say, "Oh, why

  • would anyone wanna play a game that way? Why would

  • anyone wanna do this from their playing instead of doing

  • this?" And it just took the world by storm. -This

  • was the biggest Trojan horse I think anyone has ever

  • pulled off. Nintendo sold it to the gamer but they

  • brought it in with this [unk] sports game that they

  • knew people would come in and seeing it on the

  • way by, and that's what you see articles write up.

  • -Oh, man every retirement home has got a Wii now,

  • people love bowling, we have baseball. -This retirement community in

  • New Jersey, you'll find cards, music but the main attraction

  • here is video games. -For more than a year, more

  • than a year, you couldn't walk into a store and

  • buy a Wii. -And more bad news for holiday shoppers,

  • nearly a year after the Wii's debut Nintendo is still

  • have supply problems with the video game console. -And you're

  • like, "What is happening with video games right now?" There

  • are these two expensive HD devices literally destroying each other

  • and then over here sprinting away from what everybody else

  • is doing, Nintendo is winning, and I'll guarantee it they

  • didn't pay out to gamers in the end, right -Loved

  • it, they sold it, ton of them, but they used

  • it primarily to do one thing which is to play

  • Wii sports. This brought me back to the old days

  • before the Atari 2600 where everyone just had pong machines.

  • -You're watching the most exciting game you will ever see

  • on your TV set. -Or you just hook this thing

  • up to your console and it could do one thing,

  • it could play pong. -Suddenly third party developers see look

  • how many units are in people's houses right now, I'm

  • like, "Let's make all-- stop what you're doing, put all

  • of the crazy ass mini games you can on the

  • discs and let's get them out to these Wii, you

  • know, Wii families," people want to play bingo, people want

  • to do this, they want-- and suddenly like there's a

  • lot of Nintendo Wii games and a lot of them

  • are shoveled. -Cruise around the world as you perform tons

  • of different dance moves. -And you get this bad taste

  • in your mouth that once again Nintendo is only playing

  • with the toys in their sandbox and alienating everybody else.

  • -This is the seventh generation of gaming, it's not just

  • important for gaming but it's also important for how much

  • more these consoles prove that they were able to do

  • it. It really became a generation of entertainment as much

  • as it was of gaming. -And now of course we

  • come to the eight and final generation. The generation that

  • makes my back hurt, makes me feel old, makes me

  • feel pretty cool, Wii U, PlayStation 4 and the Xbox

  • One. -You've got Microsoft versus Sony right now and I

  • think without that type of rivalry I think things would

  • get stagnant very quickly and you wouldn't see the advances

  • that you're seeing today. -And then it has definitely caused

  • every fan boy out there to decide, you know, why

  • to get for; is it terrible or the Xbox is

  • just-- One is the just the worst system ever. -Well,

  • [unk] one thing, it's $100 cheaper. -I think the Xbox

  • overall is a more valiant system. -Microsoft stands on a

  • lot of personal rights issues of probably the wrong way.

  • -The PS4 cannot match the teams that Microsoft has. -In

  • the end really, it's not apples to oranges, it's apples

  • to apples. They are video games and they're great, and

  • each one of them has all some exclusives and each

  • one of them has a number of problems. -Of course

  • always on the periphery and potentially always ready to up

  • end everything is Nintendo and who knows who else is

  • trying to come in and basically challenge the idea that

  • a PlayStation or an Xbox is the thing that you

  • should be playing games on at home. -The current generation

  • of consoles have a big question mark hanging over there,

  • existence really. -There are valid questions out there as to

  • whether these boxes are still the things that make sense

  • to be playing games on even onto your television. In

  • an era when you can have portable like an iPad

  • or something like that, that can help to your TV.

  • -Odyssey. -So, you know, games started off as toys for

  • kids, to machines that have created experience that I think

  • people recognize as a fundamental part of American and world

  • culture. -You can compare us to other popular forms of

  • entertainment and see the same fight scene, right? D. Snyder

  • testifying in front of Congress for freedom of speech. -Clear

  • evidence of twisted sister's music became completely misinterpreted and unfairly

  • judged by supposedly well informed adults. -Suddenly video games have

  • to do the same thing, and Grand Theft Auto come

  • out and say all this stuff. -Could send, shivers down

  • your spine if you hear these three words; Grand Theft

  • Auto. -Grand Theft Auto, Modern Warfare 2. -Mass effect. -Kids

  • in the video games? -No. -Okay. That's a good thing.

  • -You're starting to see an era where even the way

  • games are rated by the press is starting to become

  • more and more similar to the evolution of how films

  • have been rated. -And now you are seeing a generation

  • of people who have been raised with video games in

  • their living rooms, in their lives, on their phones everyday

  • of their lives. Video games have been around long enough,

  • now we're at the tipping point. -And then we're all

  • dead and gone, people will be looking back on the

  • video games like the most important type of entertainment that

  • ever existed because it was interactive entertainment and it wasn't

  • passive. -Imagine the generation right now who their first video

  • game console is the PlayStation 4, is the Xbox One.

  • What are they gonna be making in 30 years? That's

  • the future of video games, that there is no limit,

  • there is no end, there is no way to predict

  • what will happen next. -What's gonna happen? Are people just

  • gonna use their Smartphone's to play games? Are people gonna

  • go back to using their computers to play games? Are

  • boxes gonna shrink in to nothing and just be embedded

  • in your TV? I don't know, all I know is

  • when I get out of bed in the morning my

  • back hurts. I'm old, there has been a generations of

  • consoles. What more do you want?

-The seventh generation rolls along and Microsoft holds a sneak

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