For those that don't know:

If you think it Xbox was first, you are sadly mistaken.

Don't think anyone thinks Xbox was first - DC was the first console to include everything needed for online gaming right out of the box soooo, just sayin. :P

You must have not watched the video.

Also, PC was the first that included everything needed so :P just sayin

I didn't watch and if you reread you'll no doubt see I said first Console.... :P

Who said Xbox was first? Xbox just made it better and now has the best online service available.

Doesn't matter, Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo had everything that was needed. You need to watch the video :P

I don't know of anyone who said Xbox Live was the first online gaming network.

Loads of gamers think that Xbox introduced online gaming.

@nini200: Ohhh, are you saying Xbox wasn't the first to charge for online ? If so then now I get it. :P

Now you get it lol

Haha my cousin had this. Genesis did a lot of cool things, they also had that streaming service where you could play any of the games with a subscription model, Sega Channel i think it was called.

Yep Sega Channel lol that was good times man

messaging and friendlists

DC was the first to include everything right out of the box. You must have not read his post correctly...

^This. TONS of lemmings think Xbox brought online to console gaming. LOL now they're all up in this thread saying "who said dat?" "we didn't say dat".

Such as?

Such as almost every one of them who posts here when posters come in and ask: what has Microsoft brought to console gaming? Almost every one of them claim "online gaming" wouldn't exist today at all if it wasn't for XBL. Such bullshit.

Pretty much spot on

I'd say more people see Xbox/360 as the console/'s that popularised online gameplay on consoles which they did. Part of that was just down to timing; more people had good internet connections (or internet connections at all) when the Xbox/360 came out than 10 years prior, but it was also down to them actually building a good infrastructure for online, knowing what people would want and expect from a convenient online gaming experience and then carrying that out.

I've spent years of my adult life trying to tell cows that Microsoft didn't introduce online gaming, or pay-to-play.

But they never listen. They'd rather keep Microsoft known as the "Evil of Gaming"

So, no names or evidence? I can see users claiming XBL brought console gaming up-to-speed but I have yet to see users say Microsoft was the first to do it. Granted, being "the first" is different from being the first to truly nail it and make it mainstream/popular. Although, I also remember semantics being played about motion controls and who was "first" as if it's relevant considering Nintendo made it mainstream. Why such petty pandering though?

Yes. Hide behind plausible deniability. Good job.

Don't even try to go there. I've read many, and I mean many comments from you going on and on about cows doing this and cows doing that. Lemmings stupidly try to pretend they are somehow more noble fanboys than cows are. What nonsense. Do not ever play the holier than thou card in a place like this.

MS didn't do it first but they perfected it and continue to evolve it.

Xbox was never first. They seldom are. They were the ones to make console online not shit though.

You mean PC.

First console.

Yep Teleplay was the original for Sega. The Famicom modem was hard to find.

I knew coming in this thread would be a waste of time, but I shrugged and said "ehh, I'll bit"

You know you love this thread. Don't lie

By now it should be common sense that XBOX invented online play. KOTOR invented WRPG. Halo invented FPS. Gears of War invented TPS.

I remember xband but I didn't know anyone who had it. Seems like a better online service than Nintendo currently has though lol bet u can message people easier.

Maybe lemmings who started gaming in the PS2/xbox/GameCube Gen believe ms started online on consoles, but those of us who were not living with mommy by that time know different.

Sega was ahead of its time, which also hurt them.

MS wasn't the first to do it on consoles, just the first to succeed, and change the face of gaming on the process.

But yeah, Sega was thinking ahead...