Seriously… How Did Xbox Last This Long?

[firebush03]

Chris Hu said:

firebush03 said:

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.

The industry was still in its early years during the 1990s, this really isn’t something you can dispute. Yes ofc there have been consoles dating all the way back to the 1970s (the Vetrix was the original IIRC), but e.g. the idea of Nintendo creating a successor system to the SNES—releasing games exclusives to this system—was a novel concept back then.