Crash Course Games: #10: Microsoft and Connected Consoles

This video lesson [8:56] focuses on the early 2000s innovation in hardware and games and one significant change, Internet connectivity. Sony's PlayStation 2, released in 2000, and Nintendo's GameCube, released in 2001, would also include ways to get online, but Xbox's implementation of a fully unified network that allowed gamers to compete across consoles was the first of its kind. PCs gamers had been playing across networks, particularly within the popular MMORPG genre, now the Internet on consoles helped lead to the prevalence of the competitive gaming and online gaming communities we see today.