Atari next? Would love to hear your suggestions. Thanks!

You forgot one thing about the Xbox One's "always online" announcement: at first, Mattrick's response was quite literally "Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360".

The Xbone reveal still flabbergasts me to this day. Don Mattrick should get pension for being the greatest PlayStation salesmen of all time.

It was absolutely backbreaking to Microsoft when Sony displayed their "sharing policy" at E3.

"Here you go"

"Thank you"

Watching it live was awesome.

The PS4 announcement and the simple, yet effective “$299” on the PS1 keynote in response to the $399 price point of the Sega Saturn are the greatest beatdowns from Sony.

I had a friend who worked at Gamestop during that E3. When Xbox One and PlayStation 4 pre-orders opened, they sold every PS4 pre-order. They got zero Xbox One pre-orders. A few days later, Microsoft walked back their always online demands.

I remember looking up the "towel trick" fix for the red ring of death issue when my first 360 finally broke in 2011. If you wrapped a towel around the console and left it on for a couple days, intentionally overheating the unit to essentially repair the broken connection by melting it back together. This actually worked for awhile.

I had mentally blocked Games for Windows Live from my memory, thanks for that Norm.

The DRM they used was so poorly implemented that I had to resort to pirating games I bought legitimately as it was the only way to play the game. It was eventually scrapped and done right with Xbox at least.

I actually was at E3 2005 and 2006 when a lot of this stuff went down. Microsoft also sent me retail and debug Xbox 360 at the beginning of the console and BOTH RROD'ed! The Games for Anywhere thing I remember actually going into a back room with the guy that was in charge of it and trying it out, it was a neat concept that was working on some of the more advanced phones at the time such as the Motorola Q, but yeah that part of it never really got anywhere.

My favorite part about Xbox One’s focus on TV is that streaming sticks were also first being released around this time, meaning that Microsoft was driving off their gaming audience to focus on a TV audience that had no reason to get an Xbox when they could just get a Chromecast or a Roku Stick for a fraction of the price.

Hearing Norman rant about Games for Windows Live sounds like he’s speaking from the heart lol

I'd love to see a three biggest mistakes of Konami!  They've definitely gone away from being a highly revered game company and would be a good shake up to the formula by covering software manufacturers.

The Always Online announcement was so tonedeaf and stupid that I had been fully prepared to walk away from all future home consoles, if Sony had followed suit. Sony's E3 beat down on Microsoft is one of the greatest industry moments of all time. You could hear it in the cheers of the crowd, like a terrible weight was being lifted from the shoulders of everyone in the room.

I remember working at GameStop during the sale of the 360. I had returns almost immediately. We were so baffled at the time.

Their biggest mistake for me was rushing out a defective console (360)  just to get out in the market ahead of Sony.
3 red ring incidents, and 3 absolutely ridiculous hassles trying to get them repaired or replaced is my Microsoft experience. After the third time they REFUSED to do anything further. So I sold a broken 360 at a pawn shop. Got 25 dollars for it.
I haven't bought a microsoft product since... this was 2006.
Also, online was FREE on PS3.

Feels like this video needs a followup

Atari seems like a good choice for a “biggest mistakes” episode.

This is also a good place for discussion on the American Video Game Crash and parallels that can be drawn between that era and the modern era of gaming.

That was well done. I don't care what console you cover next, I'll watch it!

I remember always being scared that my 360 was gonna get the red ring back in the day. There were so many rumors in my middleschool of what caused it.I can't believe it was an over cooling and heating problem this whole time. Glad I had a newer 360 (which I didn't know at the time).

Some of my friends always give me their trash electronics. What bothered me with the 360 was if  you modified it you would be locked out of Xbox live. When the red ring of death thing came to light a few friends of mine asked me if I could fix it and I learnt it was a hardware failure over the GPU and CPU from over heating and realized it was an airflow issue. I decided to Mod my 360 with a better heat sink that made it look ugly but kept the hardware cool. While I was in there realizing it ran just a basic hard drive I also flashed the OS and put in a larger volume hard drive into the console. I got locked out from xbox live. IT would let me play games offline but anything online I was denied. So I put in the old harddrive. and did a factory reset. What do you know. Still locked out because of hardware. I first thought it was linked to my account but it was linked to the console its self. I tested this logging into xbox live with another friend's xbox. Apparently also changing the heat sink in the console to one that worked better also locked me out. I hate when I am forced to not modify or repair my own shit. This was also when I started getting really big into the Right to Repair movement.