this gaming brand has made its fair
share of mistakes welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down the top 10 biggest Xbox
fails number 10 original Fat Controller
kicking off our list is proof that
bigger isn’t always better when the
original Xbox launched in 2001 who was
clearly marketed towards Giants ogres
and maybe that giant rock eater guy from
the neverending story thankfully
Microsoft quickly refined the
controllers design so that 99% of the
population could play with its s
controller and subsequent 360 version
number 9 hard drives and other
overpriced accessories our new console
can store hours of content and connect
to the internet well not by itself of
course it’s a pretty grimy trick to
offer consumers a cheaper version of
your console that then forces them to go
out and pay the difference they save
just so they can save their games number
8 web browser transfers ads and DLC many
Xbox users have been waiting a long time
for the web browser to arrive instead
Microsoft has created apps for websites
like YouTube and Facebook which require
a paid prescription equally bad the
dashboard is now filled with
advertisements and Microsoft hasn’t
unlocked our game transfers meaning that
downloadable games and save files cannot
be shared among users on a single Xbox
console worst of all Microsoft has
allowed itself and developers to become
dependent on downloadable content
including content locked away on retail
discs scam artists number 7 Kinect lag
and spatial requirements with the Kinect
Microsoft has delivered an innovative
piece of hardware despite being just a
fancy webcam our gripe is that it’s not
sensitive enough for real gaming we
would never ditch our game pads for
laggy motion controls especially when
the Kinect requires a huge empty room to
play in you realize that a lot of us
live in basements right number 6 disk
destruction so you’re playing and all of
a sudden you hear the dreaded grinding
noise emerging from your xbox you open
the drive to investigate and to your
whore you find Xtreme patterns on your
disk leaving it unplayable how can this
be simple Microsoft decided not to put a
protective buffer in the disk drive
claiming that you’re good as long as you
don’t move it while it’s in use so let’s
I’ll move the Xbox it actually makes a
sound
Oh sounds reasonable except that there
have been many recorded instances of
random disk destruction try returning a
disk with circular scratches on it to a
game stop and see how far that gets you
number-5 limited backwards compatibility
we don’t know about you but we dig
playing old games on new systems sure
you can hold on to those old machines
but an all-in-one package is much more
convenient you know what isn’t
convenient having to look at a list to
see which random games Microsoft has
decided to make playable on the Xbox 360
oh and you have to buy them number for
rare where part of the reason many
gamers jump ship from Nintendo was the
news that Microsoft bought rare the
company that gave us such classics as
Donkey Kong Country and Goldeneye today
rare isn’t hard at work making the next
killer instinct Battletoads wizards and
warriors or jet force Gemini instead
they’re making avatar based motion
control games for Kinect that’s like
telling NASA to make bumper cars instead
of space shuttles wait you mean NASA
doesn’t make space shuttles anymore
number three charging for Xbox Live
online gaming has moved from niche
market to gaming standard Nintendo and
Sony offered this for free and Microsoft
doesn’t in fact they want you to pay for
each Xbox user in your household as a
result you need this to not only play
online but access demos YouTube Facebook
your Netflix account and virtually
anything else you want to do number two
blu-ray and the HD DVD peripheral when
the 360 and ps3 were coming out for the
first time their companies had to choose
between two HD mediums blu-ray or HD DVD
unfortunately Microsoft chose wrong we
hope you didn’t fork out the cash for
the Player HD DVDs went the way of the
dodo a long time ago
number one red ring of death was there
ever any doubt taking the top spot on
this list is the most infamous blender
in the history of gaming the red ring of
death is the result of Microsoft rushing
their console out the door to be the
first on the shelves everyone and I mean
everyone know someone who has watched
their beloved system turn into a
doorstop Microsoft used to send shipping
coffins as a sign of respect but they
don’t even do that anymore
the most insulting thing here is that
Microsoft knew their consoles broke so
frequently that instead of fixing it
they added special lights to let you
know right away when it happened fail
share of mistakes welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down the top 10 biggest Xbox
fails number 10 original Fat Controller
kicking off our list is proof that
bigger isn’t always better when the
original Xbox launched in 2001 who was
clearly marketed towards Giants ogres
and maybe that giant rock eater guy from
the neverending story thankfully
Microsoft quickly refined the
controllers design so that 99% of the
population could play with its s
controller and subsequent 360 version
number 9 hard drives and other
overpriced accessories our new console
can store hours of content and connect
to the internet well not by itself of
course it’s a pretty grimy trick to
offer consumers a cheaper version of
your console that then forces them to go
out and pay the difference they save
just so they can save their games number
8 web browser transfers ads and DLC many
Xbox users have been waiting a long time
for the web browser to arrive instead
Microsoft has created apps for websites
like YouTube and Facebook which require
a paid prescription equally bad the
dashboard is now filled with
advertisements and Microsoft hasn’t
unlocked our game transfers meaning that
downloadable games and save files cannot
be shared among users on a single Xbox
console worst of all Microsoft has
allowed itself and developers to become
dependent on downloadable content
including content locked away on retail
discs scam artists number 7 Kinect lag
and spatial requirements with the Kinect
Microsoft has delivered an innovative
piece of hardware despite being just a
fancy webcam our gripe is that it’s not
sensitive enough for real gaming we
would never ditch our game pads for
laggy motion controls especially when
the Kinect requires a huge empty room to
play in you realize that a lot of us
live in basements right number 6 disk
destruction so you’re playing and all of
a sudden you hear the dreaded grinding
noise emerging from your xbox you open
the drive to investigate and to your
whore you find Xtreme patterns on your
disk leaving it unplayable how can this
be simple Microsoft decided not to put a
protective buffer in the disk drive
claiming that you’re good as long as you
don’t move it while it’s in use so let’s
I’ll move the Xbox it actually makes a
sound
Oh sounds reasonable except that there
have been many recorded instances of
random disk destruction try returning a
disk with circular scratches on it to a
game stop and see how far that gets you
number-5 limited backwards compatibility
we don’t know about you but we dig
playing old games on new systems sure
you can hold on to those old machines
but an all-in-one package is much more
convenient you know what isn’t
convenient having to look at a list to
see which random games Microsoft has
decided to make playable on the Xbox 360
oh and you have to buy them number for
rare where part of the reason many
gamers jump ship from Nintendo was the
news that Microsoft bought rare the
company that gave us such classics as
Donkey Kong Country and Goldeneye today
rare isn’t hard at work making the next
killer instinct Battletoads wizards and
warriors or jet force Gemini instead
they’re making avatar based motion
control games for Kinect that’s like
telling NASA to make bumper cars instead
of space shuttles wait you mean NASA
doesn’t make space shuttles anymore
number three charging for Xbox Live
online gaming has moved from niche
market to gaming standard Nintendo and
Sony offered this for free and Microsoft
doesn’t in fact they want you to pay for
each Xbox user in your household as a
result you need this to not only play
online but access demos YouTube Facebook
your Netflix account and virtually
anything else you want to do number two
blu-ray and the HD DVD peripheral when
the 360 and ps3 were coming out for the
first time their companies had to choose
between two HD mediums blu-ray or HD DVD
unfortunately Microsoft chose wrong we
hope you didn’t fork out the cash for
the Player HD DVDs went the way of the
dodo a long time ago
number one red ring of death was there
ever any doubt taking the top spot on
this list is the most infamous blender
in the history of gaming the red ring of
death is the result of Microsoft rushing
their console out the door to be the
first on the shelves everyone and I mean
everyone know someone who has watched
their beloved system turn into a
doorstop Microsoft used to send shipping
coffins as a sign of respect but they
don’t even do that anymore
the most insulting thing here is that
Microsoft knew their consoles broke so
frequently that instead of fixing it
they added special lights to let you
know right away when it happened fail
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