Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/49129778
What's the matter? The passage of time wearing you thin?
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
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Man, I totally forgot about that scene.
The 360 is as old today as the Nes was when it came out.
1985->2005->2026
Pretty sure the NES was brand new when it came out. That’s just how age works.
The 360 is 21 years old today.
The NES was 0 years old when it came out.
Mans over here doing the math and spitting the facts
The person who introduced me to the NES died a long time ago of old age.
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Damn right they are. Probably the last great console generation before modern monetization practices fully took hold.
We were well into horse armor by this point
It was the start of it, but it wasn't common practice, at least not towards the beginning of the generation.
It was the first generation for DLC to be more common, but it felt like an addition and not just restoring intentionally cut content.
I do agree that towards the end of the generation, some of the greedier companies started some of their worst practices.
360 era DLC was just more game to tide you over while you waited for the sequel. But then they realised they could cut half the game and sell it as DLC later on. But then they realised they didn't want to wait for later on and started selling half the game over the counter and half the game from inside the game.
"Kinect is going to be the future of gaming!" Except this is the only generation that is going to natively support it. But hey, Apple will shrink it down, put it in a phone, and use it to authenticate you. That's not nearly as fun as using it for dancing and rafting though.
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I like to think I gave my nephew some perspective. About 10 years ago, I gave him one of those combo consoles that played NES, SNES, and Genesis games, and bought him several classic games from each. So for a couple years, he grew up playing the originals of Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart, Sonic, Mortal Kombat, etc. And every time I visited, I whooped his little butt at Mortal Kombat too. I think it made him appreciate it all the more when he eventually got a PS4 and beyond. Someone who starts with a Xbox 360 has no understanding of just how far games have come and no context for what made some of these classic IPs great from the get go, and what it was like to sit next to your friend, sibling, or cousin and play couch co-op together.
P.S. I didnt let him win in Mortal Kombat because he was a complete shit talker. He'd be on a 12 fight lose streak, and manage one KO by the skin of his teeth, and then look me straight in the face, puff up his chest and grunt out "Uh! Yea! Winners never lose!" He simply had to be punished for that arrogance.
He’d be on a 12 fight lose streak, and manage one KO by the skin of his teeth, and then look me straight in the face, puff up his chest and grunt out “Uh! Yea! Winners never lose!”
That's awesome lol good for him.
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It will be weird in 20 odd years. “Dad has given me his old PS6, it’s a great bookend/paperweight”
It's too bad Sony revoked everyone's game licenses in 2030
In 2030 we game through a gamespeaker, that's a person who learned the layout of game maps and attack patterns of monsters in the before time. You game by asking them questions and describing your actions.
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Every time I see the name 360 I remember how much of a pussy Microsoft is for calling it's successor the Xbox One instead of the XXXbox. What a waste
Xbox one, you mean the first one. right?
Thanks to XBMC and Team Xecuter my first Xbox definitely was an XXXbox. 😬
This is my own personal rule, so therefore I obviously think it’s the most correct definition:
Once a “next-gen” (eg. PS5) console becomes “current gen”, then the previous “current-gen” (eg. PS4) console becomes “last-gen”, and the previous “last-gen” (eg. PS3) console becomes “retro”.
I fell the differences between the most recent two generations aren't enough to warrant a shift in stages.
We’re well past the point where even if a console generation doubles the number of polygons it can process over its predecessor - it will be difficult for us end-users to be able to discern much of a difference.
We will likely get to a point where 4K120Hz may be possible for some titles with AI support in the next generation; but given Sony’s decision to not make discs of future games - they can go fuck themselves.
And with bump/normal mapping, they were able to bake the appearance of 6 million triangles into the texture and wrap it around the 600 triangle model.
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"I like retro games, like Halo 2 and that"
Temp worker at my old job, 2022, verbatim. I will forever be haunted by that phrase.
"Now listen here, you little shit"
This one hurt me.
Was talking to a young adult relative the other day, and he was telling me about one of the new Call of Duty games.
I haven't played one lately, so I mentioned something I thought was neat in World at War or Black Ops 1. And he's like, "Wow, that's an old one. I don't think I was even born yet."
💀
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Crackdown? Infamous?! Fable!?! Fusion frenzy!?!!? Hexic!!?!? AEGIS WINGS?!?!!ONE!!
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Dad picked it up after retiring at the end of a long career. Shooting zombies sounded more fun than fishing.
My knees crack when I stand up and lately I'm getting weird joint pains...
Checks out.
yall arnt even that old chill
I remember playing the Atari when it was new(ish). I have seen plenty of consoles come and go. I watched people handle my old toys like they were fossils before the Xbox 360 was a manic twinkle in Steve Ballmer's eye.
But I think my childhood stuff was about the last generation of stuff that was already kind of old by the time the internet really came into the popular consciousness.
It's cool to see people grapple with watching things that they remember from their childhood, things they discussed on internet forums as they came into being, become old. The internet is new enough that this is still a pretty recent phenomenon. Like, kids who were ten when this came out are thirty-one now. Old enough that some of them have their own kids, and more of them are dodging questions from their parents and relatives about kids. They're old enough that teenagers treat them like authority figures rather than somewhat older peers.
It happens to everybody, but this is the first group of humans where the whole process played out from start to finish on the internet. That's pretty cool.
Congratulations, gen z. your collective and individual crises of mortality are the best documented in human history.
So far, anyway.
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Xbox 360 had Call of Duty 2, we are on CoD 36 or something right now, of course Xbox 360 is retro
Tbf CoD 2 was actually CoD 4 lol.
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