Opinion: Give the gift of last-gen this Christmas

Opinion: Give the gift of last-gen this Christmas

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

It may sound a little kitsch to call Xbox 360 a retro console, but that’s exactly what it is. It’s been two years since Xbox One puttered onto the scene and with a trove of next-gen exclusives (and a string of poor cross-gen performances on Microsoft’s once great console) have accelerated its antiquity in the meantime.

Xbox 360 is very much watching from the shadows now, the sparkling future of the new generation twinkling sadly in its metaphysical eyes.

But being the former king of the consoles doesn’t mean 360 has to wander off into the wastelands in search of an honourable death – there’s a whole new crowd of prospective gamers who either signed up to the best pastime in the world with Xbox One and have no perspective on what went before, or those that simply haven’t ever picked up a controller before.

Doing a 360

And while Xbox One is only now just starting to find its feet (even with the Fable Legends beta – one of the poster games Microsoft has been selling its lead console on hard – has slipped into 2016), Xbox 360 hit the ground running – and it’s been sprinting like a …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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