Power On: The Story of Xbox

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Azzanation said:

SKMBlake said:

I watched the first 2 episodes, I am in the middle of the third one and...

This is exactly why I don't enjoy the "Xbox brand":
- the main target was to respond to Sony's claim about the PS2 replacing PC in living rooms
- then it became all about beating Sony in their own field
- and then it was about entering in the lucrative gaming business to make money out of it, with unlimited funds from the richest company in the world

And yes, we heard about Samus the passionnate nerd who build up a prototype that could boot Windows in 3 seconds, but yeah, overall they made obvious why the Xbox brand isn't loved as much as Nintendo.

Actually MS was always interested in entering the console market, they were in it from the very start. Infact Sony even made the hardware for MS, same with Toshiba, Panasonic etc. 

MS created a console called the MS-X which was a cartridge based PC and the first console to house Metal Gear (The NES game) and offered Komani and Sega games.

Launched in 21/10/1983 and Discontinued in 1993

A good watch below

So technically MS is one of the origin companies in the console space.

And Dreamcast used Windows CE with DX6. MS wasin talks with SEGA during the Saturn era about some sort of support for it as well. MS wanted in for sometime.