Alternate history: Microsoft never joins the console race

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curl-6 said:

By the time Rare was sold to MS, much of the talent behind games like Banjo Kazooie, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, DKC, etc had already left the building.
Their last Nintendo game, Starfox Adventures, was already a mediocre showing, and from that point on their mojo never returned.

Nintendo could have bought Rare and tried to whip them into shape, but by that point maybe they were right not to.

Well for me that's an awful way of looking at it. That'd be like if Disney sold off Pixar just because The Good Dinosaur didn't do very good in theaters.

curl-6 said:

m0ney said:

How many billions Microsoft have lost in the console race?

The original Xbox lost $5-7 billion if I recall correctly.