The Forgotten Xbox 360 E - Retrospective Review 

Any of you ever have this Xbox? I'm half convinced it never existed, even though I, you know... actually own one now. But seriously, not sure why Microsoft decided to make the change from the 360 S, interesting stuff. Join the discord! --- www.discord.io/91Tech​​​​​​

I owned this and was confused why everyone else's looked different

So I have this Xbox. My uncle died about 2 1/2 years ago and this was one of the things I received from him. I remember looking at it and being amazed at how different it was. I still use it to this day, keeping only mine and his Xbox accounts on it. It's sad to see his avatar forever asleep, But all his progress on there will live on. Thanks Uncle E, for all of the memories you've giving me before and after you left us.

I've got the Xbox 360 E and I love it. It was dirt cheap, it's super quiet, has HDMI and I can play tons of great Xbox classic and 360 games on it. I use it more than my Xbox One.

I have a 500GB Xbox 360 E. My first console and I've owned it since about 2013. I stopped using it around 2016 when I got more involved in PCs at the time. Well, I finally fired the 360 up in 2022 and man it is nostalgic just playing everything I used to play. Great video about an underrated 360 version.

"June 2013 I would have been 13 years old" This hurt me on a pretty deep level

Imagine you’re out for a walk and you look up to see a man placing an Xbox in a tree, carefully balancing it, then backing up and taking a photo of it

3:43 Microsoft put that sticker there because when the Xbox 360 first came out, people were moving the console from horizontal to vertical whilst discs were running inside them and unknowingly destroying their discs...it was HUGE news at the time so yeah, these warning stickers came out with later iterations of the console.

"I don't know why they even put this sticker on here" This man clearly never accidentally bumped his Xbox while it was running, to watch in helpless horror as it fully chewed and digested his favorite game disk. I can still hear the noise in my head, it is seriously awful and if you've ever heard it you'd know exactly why that sticker is there lol

i own a 500gb one, such an underrated console that came at the wrong time.

I got the 360 E after my parents thought it was the one I wanted, 8 years later it’s a Netflix machine

The reasons they revise models : Cheaper to make (more profit) less power hungry (the E had unified chips and was less power hungry than the S) and minor improvements in reliability. I think its cool the E exists from a collectors view, you can buy a relatively recently made 360 that will be more reliable than buying the fat or S 360.

I bought my Xbox 360 E on release. Upgraded the hard drive and started playing Xbox games for the first time. Had a great time with it. Definitely felt like I got my money’s worth. I didn’t care for the Xbox One or PS4 when they released since my gaming PC was so far ahead already. This console allowed me to play exclusive 360 games I missed out during that generation since I was mostly a PC and PlayStation gamer. Love the console and am a proud owner to this day.

'If you have no internet, then we have a product for that. It's called Xbox 360' - Don Mattrick Yeah he wasn't joking, but this is the version I had so I have nostalgia for it

"The forgotten xbox 360 E" Me with xbox 360 E: This is fine

I did an unboxing video of the blue e series console when it released. Still my favorite Xbox 360 console to this day. I loved that it originally had a 500 gb hard drive out of the box.

I know the main advantage of this model from Microsoft's perspective was that it was made much cheaper to manufacture. Why that wasn't initially reflected in the MSRP is beyond me (I guess they wanted it to still seem as "premium" as the S-model), but I eventually managed to buy one of these in a bundle that included a 320 GB HDD and 4 games (Halo 4 and Forza Horizon as physical, Need for Speed Rivals and some other game I can't remember as digital) for a mere $160. The retail prices of the games alone essentially covered the price of the whole bundle!

The 360E was a blessing for 2014 me, and as I was in a more rural area, it still gave me good bang for the buck. I absolutely adore this tiny brick

Everyone: *putting a thing on a table* 91Tech: *PUTS A THING ON A TREE*

My folks got mine back in 2014 as an upgrade to my original Xbox. I was absolutely mind-blown that I could play online and VOICE CHAT with other people. I kept the box and all the original packaging in mint condition. The box even still has the $200 Kmart price sticker on it lol

This was actually a useful revision of the xbox 360 because this one had a really good cooling system making it less vulnerable to rrod and last longer than the other revision models

Mine is still in use to this day, my brother and I never really upgraded from it. Second hand games are thankfully often cheap.

Literally me going: HEY that’s the one I had, and yeah I kinda forgot about it ahahah

A couple of points from someone who was there in the day, from the original Xbox 360 up to the 360E. The 360E was a really important machine and a god send. Why? Well, for most of us who had bought the original machine, we had gone through the pain of the "red rings of death" and countless unreliable machines. When the 360E came along it was the final version and all of the bugs had been fixed. It was quiet and ultra reliable - so much so that my kids are now playing on the machine today. It also enabled all of us who had accumulated a significant library to have a machine that could play that library for years to come. As when it's successor was released, backward compatibility was not being talked about. So the 360E was a really important machine, and we are lucky Microsoft made it.

I'm planning on grabbing a 360 S in December, primarily to replay some of the older games that have been discontinued / delisted from digital storefronts. It's still helpful to have one of these systems around for this reason alone.

I owned one. I turned it on and started GTA V before school, and when i came back, i only had to wait 20-30 more minutes until it finished loading.

Back when I was only allowed to play 2 hours a day. Always having to save before entering a new place in Skyrim just in case it froze on the loading screen

I have one, my son's old one that he never used (it was still unopened, as he, at the time had a Halo Xbox-One. I also have my day-1 (I repaired/upgraded it after it red-ring'd on me), a G1 "Elite" and this E-Model in my collection. Cool stuff.

Great video man this was a fun trip down memory lane, totally forgot this console even existed lmao

I’m laughing at that Xbox chillin in a tree lookin majestic af.

This was my main source of entertainment for 2 years, and I liked it because I found it the most reliable over the other 2.

I bought this one back in 2014 along with a ps3 super slim. I actually liked the simplistic look to it.

The 500gb ps3 slim was amazing too. I remember playing Bethesda games on it with very little issues compared to the older models

"I think there is a reason Microsoft and Sony don't use the touch button anymore" Yeah there is. I have dogs and one happy wag if their tail or a touch of their curious snout and there goes my progress in COD. So cute but INFURIATING!!

Soon after the 360 E was announced my 360 S died, so I bought this as a replacement for £100 in a flash Amazon Black Friday sale. Back when amazon’s Black Friday sales were good. I still own it and probably won’t get rid of it until I can play all the 360 games I own on the Series X.

The original 360 had a million revisions because of the undependable hardware. I went through 3 consoles, so the E is basically them saying “Here we figured it out, the last revision.”

Same here, I have the black and the blue E models, both handled carefully and yet easily scratched on the glossy part.

I have a 500gb one, I still use it to this day. It’s awesome. It’s a good pickup for anyone wanting to play late 2000’s- early 2010’s games.

I didn’t know it was a forgotten version. I'd always thought it was the standard until I got another (the standard one) and I was like, "Is this a newer model?"

The fact that I own one of these is awesome. It’s very nastolgic and it works like a dream. I know the newer consoles are out and games are getting hard to find but this console is still relevant

6:07 But the good thing was that very few 360 games required an install, so 4GB proved sufficient. I remember buying a 250GB proprietary hard drive as backup for my game-save files.

When he was talking about the sticker tab I was like "who in their right mind would leave it on" and then I looked at my Xbox One and its still on there lmfaoooo

I got very confused when I saw my first ever console be called “forgotten”

I remember owning this and my friend asked me what this was and i told him it was limited by only 5 samples

I used an XBOX 360 E back in the day, feels like ages ago but I guess that just proves how quickly we have evolved

My friend has one, he’s a massive nerd now and I went back to his house after a few years, we walked into the lounge room, I just looked at him and he said I know

I remember my parents getting me this 360e for Christmas 2013, and i was so happy with it, although i did wonder whether it was a legitimate 360 as it didn’t look like my friends 360 lol. I still have the 500gb 360, and go on it time to time for nostalgia, it’s such a underrated console tbf, it just came at the wrong time among a better console :(

Ive owned every model of 360 at some point in time and this one was actually my favorite. I went through multiple of the first gens, even a couple of the black elite 120gbs due to the red ring of death. It just felt better, cleaner and overall just more reliable. I actually just picked up one of the Blue 500gb variants of the E Model since their are many titles that still aren't and won't become backwards compatible. So to me, the 360 is still to be desired even today, if you're looking to play a few of those unported older titles.

today i learned that for the past 5 years I've mixed up the Slim and Elite models of the XBOX 360

The reason why people didn't remove the sticker is because they didn't wanna ruin the outside of the xbox

I currently have this model hooked up to my bedroom TV. I love it, because my Series X downstairs in the living room isnt 100% backwards compatible yet.

Cool vid, Josh. I didn’t know about the E. Noice!

The 360E was more than common for me. I've seen so many friends with one. It's pretty good looking tbh

Title: “The Forgotten Xbox 360 E”. Me, who has one in 2021: *I’m 360 parallel universes ahead of you.*

And now the PS3's and 360's are played more than the newer consoles.

I'm one of the few people who ended up playing this console for years. I told my grandma that I wanted an Xbox for Christmas in 2014 and of course I was expecting a brand spanking new launch Xbox One but I got a brand spanking new 360E instead. Even as a 12 year old kid I immediately knew the difference but it hardly deterred my excitement at finally owning an Xbox. 7 years later and I've only ever owned one other console, that being an Xbox One S. Which I happen to have just given to younger relatives as a fairly late Christmas present since I'll be buying a Series S in a few days.

Here in Brazil we call " Ultra Slim", 360e seems strange to me hehe

I still prefer playing on the 360 sometimes than the one x

Dude the number of computer I saw with the packaging plastics still on them I am not surprised

RE: the disc removal sticker I still encounter SNES units that have a sticker warning the user to not remove a cartridge while the power is on :P

This video brings up nostalgia, I got the fat one, specifically a black Jasper, back in 2011. Today it's a fully modded 360 with LT 3.0, RGH 1.2 and A LOT of games, but sometimes I only turn it on to revive some memories that I had on gta online with a friend that I lost... Man, I remember after school we always played GTA online.. it's been 8 years now, 6 from his last online

I’ve had the Xbox 360 E since launch and it’s still going strong

I love the B-roll footage with the north shore mountains in the background

I got one for Christmas the year they came out was an awesome console served we well for many years, the 120GB drive in yours was an expansion drive you could simply load into the slot. I remember maxing out the 4GB internal storage within a few weeks and having to go buy a drive lol. While these are alot more reliable than the early consoles mine still managed to red ring a few years back...

A great reason to have a 360: I have a One S AD so I can’t run any physical 360 games; now that I have a 360 I can get cheap 360 games and just play them

I had this and I was always so confused why my 360 looked differently from everyone elses

The 360 was a wonderful product. I got mine right when it arrived, with a game called Fusion Frenzy included in the box. It’s seen countless hours of the years, and is still being used 15 years later to play multiplayer games with family and friends.

Dude I had one of these! And I didn’t know why it always looks so different but now I know!

God damnit. I swear every time someone says “I was *such age* in *such year*” I wind up smacking my head realizing so many relatively large channels are led by people a couple years younger than me 😭😭 I still watch the internet as though everyone is older than me.

i literally have this under my coffee table right now lol

My OG 360 died a couple years ago (I had fixed the RRoD back in the day, but now the disk drive was dead), so I upgraded to the E to replace it for those handful of non-BC games I still might want to play some day.

I bought the 4gb one here in Australia back in 2013, got it from Big W after seeing it in a magazine.

3:30 I remember ripping off that sticker about 3 years after I got my 360 and it really hit me how stratched up and dusty the rest of my console was lol

Hard console to forget when its sitting on my desk right now.

Still rocking my old elite jasper 360 from 09 along side my series x and og Xbox both 360 and og Xbox were restored this year along side my PlayStation consoles as well

Had a friend that bought one he even bought the HDR drive this was back when the disc format was still up in the air

in my experience the 360e will outlast the 360s in terms of durability

boys i still play this 😂 honestly it’s a great console

Ik have an 250GB Xbox Slim. I brought it in an retro store (in Amsterdam) and according it was 7/8 years old. That was 3 years ago and it still works perfectly. That and my still working N64 bring back so many childhood memories.

What size in Millimetres is the Audio video port? I’m trying to buy a cable for it but don’t know if it’s a 3.5mm or 2.5mm

I have one of these, my grandma got it for me when it came out and I've taken very exceptional condition of it, next to no scratches on the gloss black and works absolutely perfect

I got this when I was 9 and it was what I could afford at the time and I loved it so much. I put every single penny I had at the time into it.And it provided so many memories. One of the greatest things i’ve ever bought

Hey I have one and my Xbox has a red rig of death any ideas how to fix it ?

I got a blue special edition of the 360 E off eBay. The seller forgot to format the drive and remove his data. I went ahead and did it before transferring the data from my old hard drive to it.

Dang, it was ahead of its time. They really monopolized the *_"E"_* market.

3:26 oh hey there's enough space for a Wii on the glossy Part :)

I've had mine for ten years and still works perfectly.

The b-roll of your Xbox just sitting on a tree is so bewildering that it occupies a permanent spot in my memory

My parents got me and my siblings the E when it released in 2013 We mostly played Minecraft on it Today it still sits on our entertainment center As a streaming service and Solo GTA 5 Machine

Most people probably come here, because of "E"

I had one like this and it brought me a lot of joy

Did not even know about. Just was searching for a new 360 and randomly stumbled upon this model

I still own an Xbox 360 E and what a masterpiece it is!

When they announced they’re were to discontinue the sale of this 360, I bought one and used it for 10 hours. Been in storage ever since.

It’s funny, looking back I have 2 of these and they both have the stickers on them😂

I have that E model with 320gb I love it to bits. It's hella quiet too.

I remember when i was playing Tekken Tag 2 on our 360, and our dog came over and sniffed the button, turning the system off cause it was touch based

I always wondered why my xbox 360 looked different from my friend's back in the day.

I got this as a replacement for my bricked OG 360 from the Store selling refurbished models. Needless to say it has been confusing, eg as to why my OG HDD wouldn't plugged in and where's the VGA HD cables at and only just now have I realised the type of HDD it takes and where it plugs in now that I'm preparing for the Microsoft Store decommission in a couple of months...works well with HDMI as the VGA slot on my now older TV can be used for XBOX original or Nintendo 64 so win-win

I love the mention of the Xbox one sticker, mu Xbox one from 2014 still has the sticker on it and I'm not planning on taking it off