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This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first quarter-century.
When I started this Xbox retrospective project ahead of the console’s 25th anniversary this November, I knew it’d skew heavily towards original Xbox and Xbox 360 games. And while the Xbox One era wasn’t all bad, it was nonetheless one that a lot of Xbox fans would be happy to fast-forward through. Sure, the platform and messaging woes get most of the blame for Xbox’s first failed console (and before the Xbox faithful come after me, Nintendo’s had one too: anyone remember the Wii U? And heck, Sony had the Vita), but the lack of first-party games – let alone good ones – had as much to do with the Xbox One being a rough generation for Xbox as anything else.
Still, there were diamonds in the rough, and one of them would’ve been a HUGE hit in the Xbox 360 generation, but instead it was released on
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