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

knew people would come in and seeing it on the

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?