-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
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?