Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: Switch at 139.36m shipped

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AddRat said:

The specs were similar in power but, unless I am mistaken, Microsoft did explicitly rush the 360 launch to beat the PS3 to the market.

More like they expected the PS3 to have launched by late 2005 as well.

Dean Takahashi (yes, that same dude who failed miserably to play Cuphead's tutorial) has a whole book about the X360's development and it seems like MS was always expecting their first console to have a short lifetime due to the PS2, the market leader, coming out 18 months earlier.