so my so so so so so so so so wow shhh so so uh just me so so foreign so uh hmm so so the 20-year anniversary of xbox and halo sparks a lot of memories for me i grew up in trinidad and tobago and in high school i ran an after-school video game club one day a friend invited us over to play this game i've never heard of called halo it was love at first shot hang him high with the halo 1 pistol all this a week before the launch of halo 2. me and the other members of the game club ran tournaments to raise money so that we could get our own xbox and copies of halo 2. rumble pit and team skirmish were my jam these formative experiences led me to directing and producing halo broadcasts for major league gaming where i met my wife we eventually moved to seattle where i ended up getting a job here working on the halo esports program and now we have a free girl who i just know is going to be a halo pro it's not an exaggeration to say that if it weren't for halo i'd probably be back on the islands working as an engineer and having way less fun it's been a while 20 year ride and i'm excited for what comes next hello my name is hyen zhang and i am the chief of staff for xbox games have helped shape the course of my life as a shy and nerdy teenager i went from simple ms-dos games like hangman and decathlon to play favorites like king's quest and warcraft games inspired me to code small programs of my own and eventually to study both computer science and design and today i love sharing the joy of gaming with my six-year-old daughter piper she's already finished three console games on her own and i've loved seeing her get caught up in the visuals and music of the artful escape and learn to read with lost words my own work has taught me how play can be a powerful force for social good i was asked to help children with cystic fibrosis to make their daily physiotherapy a more enjoyable experience and in the course of my visits with a family in cornwall england i saw that they all loved to play games together my team and i turned a cystic fibrosis therapy device into a controller for a video game and it was amazing to see how play time could be transformed into healthcare treatment helping to alleviate their pain and boredom and allow these kids to engage in new experiences we are still scratching the surface of how games can change the world but when i think of how far we've come in the past 20 years i am excited about the possibilities that lie ahead in the next 20. thank you i joined xbox during the 360 era since 2007 i've been a part of producing and supporting many of the xbox events that you will see footage of today i'm the lead for xbox fan fest and i'm so passionate about the program because it's all about bringing joy to you the fans especially when we get to celebrate a moment together that's as exciting as xbox's 20th anniversary there's always something special about bringing fans together from around the world through the power of gaming while bringing xbox fan fest to digital in the past year has been amazing we can't wait to see you again in person nothing beats that face-to-face connection with the fans from the greatest community on the planet gaming has really empowered me to just want to explore the world by ways of meeting new people for gaming i met some other incredible gamers out there that are basically family to me today gaming it's allowed us to stay connected through gaming i've been able to keep in touch with my friends all over the world i'm looking forward to taking my gaming generation to generation there are no quarters in gaming it's one big community and everyone is welcome xbox allows you to run your horizons and i think that's a really amazing thing and uh yeah thank you xbox i really mean it thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you bye at xbox our passion is to help you find and play the games that you love you know i love the art form of video games i think we tell stories that bring people together whether it's competing or whether it's cooperative this is just what gaming should be about wow after all of this time it's special to be back here with xbox fans around the world i mean just look at this stage that alone shows you how far we've all come since 2001. my name is robbie bach and i had the privilege of being in charge of xbox until i retired from microsoft in 2010.
now when we started xbox 20 years ago the original idea was a business venture a way for microsoft to get into the living room but as we assembled our team and got to work xbox quickly blossomed into a new vision for what games could be an ethernet port to connect players over the internet at broadband speeds a built-in hard drive to help games evolve beyond the limitations of discs and cartridges a global dedicated online service to let you play with old and new friends alike no matter where they are these were audacious groundbreaking ideas at the time but they were also risky we faced skeptics and doubters i'll be honest and say inside and outside of microsoft we had missteps along the way there were lots of challenges involved in getting that first xbox out the door in a way that was true to our vision so when i think about what it took to bring xbox to life i always remember that success was not guaranteed and it was your passion for what xbox is that transformed that vision into reality a vision only comes to life when others share a belief in what's possible and for that we are grateful to all of you our partners developers around the world and most of all our fans microsoft is going to make a game console we weren't sure how we were going to do it risk was enormous microsoft was this dominant company of the era but success or even survival was anything but preordained we started to ship quality games and at the same time we weren't doing anything in the console space one day these guys from the directx team walked in we just thought of ourselves kind of that rebels of a weird combination of craziness and genius we were a renegade team a lot of our thinking was focused on making the very best games that really meant something for us we wanted to make a console design to be easy and fun to make games on we were trying to crash meetings and get traction on this thing we're an annoyance you're proposing taking money away from office in order to fund some game system balmer understood where the money came from steve looked at the xbox idea and saw insanity wait just one minute before you answer what's the hard drive gonna cost what's the ethernet port gonna cost there's no weight everything about making a console is hard we made this little device and it was held together by chewing gum and pace it doesn't turn on it became clear that there was just some really big challenges for us the duke wasn't a small controller you had to have gorilla hands to work with this thing it doesn't matter what your technology is if you don't have the games we were done they had this new thing called halo forza was built as an epic racing game gears of war was appealing to a hardcore gamer we were focused on having all of our games prepped for e3 and you're always just one catastrophic bug away from not making it what's going on the red ring of doubt microsoft brand is on the line the microsoft names on the line it's insane to launch a game console when you're microsoft you made freaking windows in a spreadsheet it was chaotic chaos total chaos our goal is to continue to innovate across all platforms bridge the gap between traditional and cloud-based games and then sometimes there's surprises that come out of nowhere we are no longer in the microsoft playbook power on the story of xbox is a six-part documentary series that release on december 13th across a variety of video platforms so the project began almost three years ago with a simple question is there a compelling story behind the history of xbox the answer it turns out was yes absolutely so we partnered with an emmy award-winning documentary film team to really dig in and help bring the story to life at its core it's a story about how xbox started as a passion project from a small group of gamers within microsoft and grew to become a source of joy for xbox players around the world whether you've been here for the entire 20 years or you have just joined us we're excited to have you with us today now we're gonna relive some of our favorite moments hear some words of wisdom from our very own phil spencer and definitely have a little bit of fun well thanks rock and it really is an honor to have you here believe it or not i'm a big fan of yours for instance i know that you're a five-time wwf champion not to mention one of the top entertainers in the world bill i'm very flattered i'm a big fan of yours as well for instance the rock knows you're the chairman and chief software architect of the microsoft corporation a leading worldwide provider of software for the personal computer thank you rock i'm i'm very flattered myself by creating windows by creating windows in 1983 a multi-tasking graphical user interface environment that runs on ms-dos based computers along with windows nt and windows 2000 completely self-contained operating systems that feature networking uh symmetric multi-processing multi-threading and security bill you've certainly revolutionized the technology we know today wow rock that is impressive so for the first time let me now unveil xbox i think this is going to be looked back on the golden age hi everyone i'm phil spencer known on xbox as p3 i've been playing video games pretty much my whole life i actually joined this company as an intern but i was still in school a long time before xbox was even a concept so when i think about 20 years of xbox and what games mean to all of us i always come back to the fact that around the world gaming is all about people that's it games are all about real people coming together to create experiences and relationships that cross geographies and cultures and age and all the things that can separate people in other parts of life personally i've been fortunate to see that power of gaming to connect people in a few ways at work the best part of my job is spending time with the ridiculously talented teams both here at xbox and across our industry you gaming creators around the world are at the forefront of the world's most exciting art form but the reality is that as an industry none of our work comes to life until it's enjoyed by our players you the global gaming community are a powerful force and it is you've made our passion as popular and important as it is today pretty much every day when i'm off work i'm on xbox i'm chatting with friends we're driving jeeps off cliffs in forza i'm trying new games in game pass this is where we live and we've all seen how important and real those human relationships can be especially in the face of real life adversity so when i think about 20 years of xbox i think about you our community and our creators and i want you to know that i'm dedicated team xbox is dedicated and this company is dedicated to continuing to invest listen and learn as we build the best most welcoming and most fun entertainment ecosystem anywhere on earth and beyond at xbox we're on a mission to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone and we're honored that you've joined us for the last 20 years and we can't wait to build the future together so thank you and see you online his name is jacob i met him like three years ago on call of duty black ops three so over the next year he quickly became one of our best friends we're meeting for the first time but of course it was only online i've never seen him in person tanner lives in spokane washington and i was like bro i'm gonna be in canada he's like no way he's here it's just so crazy now let's pack up and head to st louis hey how's it been bro i'm so happy to see vlogging the bridge boys are back i've met jacob that is that's why we're friends since the launch of xbox one we've listened to you the community of xbox gamers and we're grateful for your continued feedback we continue to deliver monthly platform feature updates that enhance your gaming experience and your response to the updates continues to motivate us last year the team decided to tackle a feature that has been consistently at the top of your request list and while we weren't sure it was possible today i'm pleased to announce xbox one backward compatibility your xbox 360 games the games you've invested your time and money in and the games you want to continue to be play will be playable natively on your xbox one you asked for more games to join our backward compatibility catalog from the biggest blockbusters to cult classics and we listened today we are celebrating our anniversary by adding more than 70 original xbox and xbox 360 games to our backward compatibility catalog the entire max payne series is now playable on xbox series x series s and xbox one consoles for the very first time the entire fear franchise can now be played on our latest machines games like dead are alive ultimate and star wars jedi knight 2 jedi outcast are once again playable on a new generation of consoles all original xbox games will look better than ever on all modern consoles every one of the titles added today will benefit from auto hdr and many will enjoy increased frame rates with fps boost including a wider range of our existing backward compatible titles like the gears of war franchise the fable franchise cameo and sonic generations at xbox we are committed to preserving the games that you love enhanced by the latest technology while staying true to the original creator's vision what better way to celebrate the past 20 years than by playing the iconic games that helped define it thank you for being with us on every step of this journey you ever wonder what the bottom of an average level looks like well bam there it is next time all right xbox fans the time has come can you believe it has been 20 years since i stood on that ces stage in las vegas and helped launch the original xbox now of course i nailed all the cool buzzwords the rock's here to say that that can't be farther from the truth symmetric multi-processing completely self-contained operating system and how about that look i mean the outfit the glasses who wears glasses inside and i even had hair back then those were the days the good old days now thank the lord i left the fanny pack in my closet all right well i hope you had a chance to watch red notice on netflix over the weekend now here's the thing we built a kick-ass vault inspired by the film with some amazing treasures and artifacts from xbox over the last 20 years now look my co-stars ryan reynolds and gal gadot being the master thieves that they are they are hell-bent on getting into the vault and getting their hands on these artifacts themselves so i need your help i need you to break into the xbox vault yourself by heading over to the site below now i'm excited to tell you we got hundreds and hundreds of amazing prizes including an oil painting of yours truly from that moment 20 years ago the look the glasses the hair the whole thing is there and custom xbox red notice hardware game pass collectors cards we got hundreds and hundreds of them for you guys and last but not least three cleopatra eggs just like the ones in red notice all right it's time for me to go and hit the iron paradise and show master chief what uh real guns look like you never cease to amaze the rock enjoy the rest of the show all right i think i'm gonna be going to bed now oh please welcome kian hello los angeles yeah the feeling of walking the streets of the future is really going to be breathtaking you're breathtaking you're all breathtaking more than just fun it's an activity that brings people from all walks of life from all over the world together congratulations important oh my gosh the vision that we've worked on for so long you see it in real products xbox one x the most powerful console ever made that journey from vision to reality isn't always a direct path we see a future where you're instantly absorbed in your games where worlds are even more like-like immersive responsive and surprising we centered on this idea of putting the player at the center really freeing up the player to play the games that they want with the people they want on the devices that they want to play xbox will be the platform that underpins gaming experiences for the globe that's the vision it will connect people it will empower creators to achieve things they never could before it will break down barriers that's what i believe a milestone like the 20th anniversary of xbox is more than a chance to reflect on all we've done and everything our players have taught us with 23 studios across xbox game studios and bethesda all pouring their incredible passion into creating new worlds and amazing experiences the future of gaming is awe-inspiring at xbox our love for players starts with our love for games and the creators who make them we know that to reach more gamers in more parts of the world we need to keep bringing more creative voices and perspectives to the table fostering a community as diverse as the world we live in and inclusive of all that makes each of us who we are that's why we relentlessly invest to make it easier and faster for developers to build the games we love we've driven innovation to enable developers to build accessibility features into their games like remappable controls and adjustable color or text for players who are visually impaired we collaborate with creators to encourage representation of diverse characters for stories that can open our eyes and our hearts to new points of view and we're committed to bringing those incredible games to every gamer on the planet by making it possible for anyone to play any game anywhere we do that with game pass bringing you hundreds of titles from hidden gems to the biggest hits playable across all devices we do that with our consoles the most affordable and powerful console lineup with xbox series s and x and we do that with things like the xbox adaptive controller which has unlocked the joy of gaming for over 400 million players with disabilities when everyone plays we all win it isn't just a tagline it's a core principle that inspires everything we do so please join us as we look forward to the next 20 years and more as we unleash creativity embrace a global community and delight gamers everywhere together thank you for being the core of what makes xbox great our duty as soldiers is to protect humanity whatever the cost hello master chief i'm so fortunate to be able to work and play in this incredible sci-fi universe of halo like marvel and star wars halo is a universe where hundreds of stories can be told and where millions of experiences can be shared halo began 20 years ago as the defining experience for xbox and thanks to you it's now a global pop culture phenomenon whether it's the highly anticipated halo tv series coming to paramount plus next year which you just saw a glimpse in that live action teaser or stepping back into the boots of master chief in halo infinite this december the halo universe continues to expand in new and thrilling ways because of your passion for halo and your constructive feedback we gave halo infinite more time to refine it for everyone that has been with us from the beginning and for anyone who's just getting started this game is returned to our roots with an epic campaign and a deeply rewarding multiplayer and we can't wait for you to jump into this all new halo experience while the master chief is the hero of halo our fans are its heart and soul and we at 343 are proud to celebrate 20 years of halo with you in a very special way enjoy wow so so uh hello halo community from all of us at 343 industries to everyone who played in the recent multiplayer flights your passion and feedback and spectacular gameplay clips inspired all of us as we made the final push to get halo infinite ready for launch as a thank you and to celebrate our 20th anniversary we wanted to do something special so let me hand the mic to tom french creative director for halo infinite multiplayer tom thank you joseph on behalf of the entire halo team it's my honor and privilege to announce that your spartan journey begins today right now you can download and start playing season 1 of halo infinite's free to play multiplayer beta on xbox one series s x and pc this is the kickoff of our season and you'll have access to all the maps core modes academy features and the full battle pass to unlock and your progression will carry over when we officially release the game on december 8th this is an amazing moment for our team to get to celebrate this as we finally get to release the game and play with you online see you online spartans you built this facility off the grid to train the next generation of spartans to be a spartan you must become the impossible would be my greetings to serve at your side an electric kill cluster on your feet zone captured you
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