Microsoft “completely discounted Nintendo” when launching Xbox 360

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RolStoppable said:

Burek said:

XBox was their first console, meaning they had no experience, no franchises, no fanbase and no previous goodwill to fall back on.

At the same time, Nintendo was a household name, with many great gaming franchises in tow, with 3 previous successful consoles and two portables as well. Yet they sold worse than the newcomer.

I think sales of those two consoles cannot even be compared at the same level, and taking into consideration Nintendo's presence until then, GC was certainly a "disaster",

Nintendo won with their first console. Sony won with their first console. Microsoft blew $4 billion with their first console.

Come on, if you are Microsoft and don't count yourself out after such a performance (basically the biggest disaster in video game history), then you shouldn't be so arrogant that you count out Nintendo.

Not sure why we need this discussion when in the podcast they said that the original xbox was kind of a disaster, they had no idea how to make a console but the fail of the Xbox helped to make the X360 succesfull. They learned especially Phil Spencer.