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Topic | It's kinda weird that Microsoft has been making consoles as long as Sega did |
Darmik 07/06/18 1:25:12 AM #52: | DevsBro posted... Darmik posted...creativerealms posted...I was here before the Xbox launched, when it was announced even. The consensus around gamefaqs was that it would fail. Depending on when those rumors were published they would have been accurate for the time. At one point the Xbox (Or xBox at the time named after Directx) was gonna be a bunch of different OEMs handled by companies like Dell. I guess pretty similar to what Windows Mixed Reality is now. I think this was around 1999. The CEO of Dell actually told them why this wouldn't work "When you understand why my stock price goes down when I drop the price on a PC and Sony's stock price goes up when they drop the prince on a PlayStation you'll understand why I have no interest in your proposal" Right after this was when they started their big huge X looking console. Eventually the Xbox team decided it wasn't worth using Windows 95 on it. This is what made a lot of people in Microsoft flip out originally. They fully intended to make a PC style console originally. If the rumor was in 1999/2000 it would have been accurate. --- Kind Regards, Darmik ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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