Adinnieken on 03 June 2013
| KHlover said: Do they have any successful Hardware besides the Xbox360? All the other devices I am aware of failed pretty hard. Their OS and software on the other hand is great, IMO they should stick to this side of the company. |
In general, Microsoft has most often delved into the perpherials market, such as mice, keyboards, joysticks, gamepads, headsets, cameras, and home networking equipment. The latter is the only one it fully dropped out of.
The original Xbox was the first true consumer electronics device Microsoft created. The only other two consumer electronics devices it has since created are the Zune and the Surface (tablets).
But before most, if not all of that, Microsoft was the company behind one of the most popular computers in Japan. The MSX-compatible. While they didn't manufacture the hardware, they were the company that created the design standard for the MSX and for which companies around the globe created and sold computers for.
