​For One Tired Microsoft Employee, Xbox One Launched Three Years Ago

“At 3:00 AM PST members of the Xbox team gathered to celebrate the launch of the Xbox One on November 21, 2010…” Wait, what?

Charlie Owen is a program manager at Microsoft. So, understandably, he’s excited for the global launch of the Xbox One. Excited enough to travel back in time to 2010 as the first XB1 units go on sale in New Zealand. Here’s what he wrote in the description text of the video above.

Let’s cut the guy some slack. It was 3 a.m. Redmond time when the countdown happened and that was probably capping off weeks and/or months of all-nighters to get the new hardware out the door. Sleep well, Xbox team. You’ve earned it.


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