McDonaldsGuy said:
Aura7541 said:
McDonaldsGuy said:
Aura7541 said:
The "hate" on Microsoft is your imagination. I and Tachikoma were merely correcting you on the use of the term, "innovation". And as stated already, hard drives weren't feasible back at the time. However, the gist was the same: internal memory.
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True or false: Microsoft Xbox was the first console to feature hard drives.
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True or false: Microsoft Xbox was the first console to feature internal memory.
Or how about this: Microsoft Xbox would be the first console to feature hard drives if using hard drives as internal memory was feasible long before the Xbox existed.
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As far as I know, true.
And using hard drives was feasible for saving since the mid-90s. Why didn't Sony do it with the PS2?
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in the mid 90s, a 9gb hard drive cost $2259, by the early 2000 that had dropped to sub $200 for 80gb, microsoft used 10gb and 20gb drives in the original xbox, mostly provided by Maxtor, which at oem cost Microsoft, sub $50 per unit.
The price of HDDs falling in the early 2000s lead to the release of this on July 19th, 2001
The xbox released on November 15, 2001, 5 months after the PS2 HDD expansion kit.
Just sayin'
