Seriously… How Did Xbox Last This Long?

[Chris Hu]

firebush03 said:

Chris Hu said:

All their consoles easily sold over 20 million units. If you were really serious instead of trolling, you would have asked how Sega lasted so long since the Genesis/Mega Drive was their only console that was successful and even that success was somewhat sabotaged by making the unnecessary Sega CD and 32X ad on.

I mean… I guess I could also ask that. (Though, being a very big Sonic fan, I already know what went wrong for the most part: console gaming was still new, and Sega didn’t fully understand the importance in committing to generations for longer than a couple of years. Plus, Sonic Team & Sega experience an awful schism between US and JP.)

But right now I’m focused on Xbox. These are my genuine thoughts, and how I felt as a casual consumer during 2017/2018.

Console gaming was not new when Sega released their first console the SG-1000 on July 15, 1983 since the Atari 2600 launched over five years before it in September 1977.  Heck even when the Atari 2600 launched console gaming was not that new since the Magnavox Odyssey launched in September 1972.