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20 Years Ago, MTV Revealed The Xbox 360 To The World | Elijah Wood showed us the future of gaming, including digital downloads and paid cosmetics
Elijah Wood showed us the future of gaming, including digital downloads and paid cosmetics
But before we praise Xbox for predicting the online future of games and get really sad at how cosmetic microtransactions were already part of the plan in 2005, let’s make fun of this weird 20 minute infomercial that is the most ‘00s thing ever created. It explains video gaming started with Pong and Atari, some other stuff happened, then the original Xbox launched and don’t worry about that thing called the PlayStation. Though, the moment when Allard mentions buying clothes for your digital character, I realized microtransactions were being invented in front of my eyes and got sad.
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