BladeOfGod said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:
Also, imho, the Xbox 1 was a pretty significant success. It was a completely new brand on the market and managed to beat the Gamecube from Nintendo, a long time market vet, and paved the way for the 360.
It also gave us games like Halo and KoToR which are now part of the gaming culture. Those games might have been made anyway, but without MS, maybe they wouldn't.
Either way, for a rookie console, frankly the Xbox was a significant success. It introduced the brand name and gained significant recognition for its successor worldwide. It also taught Microsoft enough about the industry to be where they are at today. In the big 3.
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Yea, compare that rookie console with PS1 which was also a rookie console and sole 4 times more than Xbox and 2 times more than Xbox family.
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If Microsoft even cared to join the console war during the PSX era, they would be far more dominant today. The PS1 was the era where Sony had no Microsoft on their back and they were the only multi-billion dollar corporation pushing Sega and Nintendo around. They could outbid their competition on any product and much like Sega had already CD's going. Nintendo lost a hell of alot that era because of Sony.
