Xbox Hoaxes and Fakes That Fooled The World

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  @ceruleanlancer · 3 years ago

  The 720 rumor was so popular on the playground at my elementary school. I remember hearing it and believing it so much.

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  @RoboLlamaVR · 2 years ago (edited)

  The concept at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP23VIz6GvY&amp;t=348">5:48</a> actually looks strikingly similar to what we got with the 360. The contoller and the other peripherals are ridiculous, but the console itself has that glowing green power button and the curves and angles on it, even down to how xbox is printed on the front.

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  @goop1354 · 3 years ago

  Fun fact: sega did end up making/collabing with Microsoft to build a console of sorts. the Sega Chihiro is a console made exclusively to be used in arcade cabinets based on the og xbox

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  @dennismakarov93 · 3 years ago

  I’m surprised no one has ever mentioned back during the 360 era Microsoft had tiny little hand held games put into cereal boxes. Like it would only be one bare bone game and you could collect more. I remember it vaguely as I was probably like 6-8 years old. Wish I kept mine, I think it may have been a snowboarding game.

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  @ItsOddsave · 3 years ago

  Omg I just realized that the Xbox 720 “mock up” looks like 343 Guilty Spark 😂😂

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• 4D

  @4dxl · 3 years ago

  The Xbox 720 hype was real

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  @TheJacintoEffect · 3 years ago

  One of my favorite Xbox 720 references is in real steel in the final fight and it’s on the advertisements across the stadium

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• ET

  @Ethan.T.24 · 1 year ago

  Remember in the movie real steel there was an advertisement in the stadium for the Xbox 720

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  @gechoman44iwantahippo · 3 years ago

  For some reason, I always thought that the 360’s successor should be called the 490 and not 720 as a kid

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• SC

  @scottoleson1997 · 2 years ago

  I remember the Xbox 2 in a magazine back in 2003-2004 and never being able to find it since

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  @bathedinmoonIight · 3 years ago

  I think another thing that may have fueled rumors of Xbox and Sega joining forces to make a new Sega console was the fact that Sega used Xbox hardware for their Chihiro arcade machines, meaning they already had an established hardware partnership lasting for several years until they switched to PC hardware for their cabinets

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  @KidTonyGaming · 2 years ago

  You&apos;re theory of Xbox using sidewinder as the official controller makes sense, if you think about it. Sidewinder controllers had 6 face buttons and 2 triggers, when the Xbox was first shown, all the games were being played with a 6 face button sidewinder controller. Guess how many face button the Duke had....6 XBYA and the black and white buttons. To be honest I feel like the Duke was just a reshashed sidewinder, and Microsoft had a sidewinder controller similar in design to the Duke. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP23VIz6GvY&amp;t=218">3:38</a>

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