Although is this really a MS console?   They really only had the OS on it,  it was actually branded whichever company built it.  I mean we are essentially talking a very early concept gaming PC with other functions.

Actually Ninty, Sony, Linus Torvalds, Commodore, Google and Apple all belong to a criminal syndicate that thrives stealing from MS!

How Ironic.............For Shame Japan

It's the same with Final Fantasy. Just because it was most successful on the Sony platforms, fanboys believe that the franchises belong to Sony.

Attributing the success of MSX to Microsoft is kinda missing the point, and the standard itself was joint venture between MS and ASCII.  Actually, Sony was also one of the biggest backers of the format.

Funny enough HAL (of Kirby, Earthbound and Smash Bros fame) got their start making MSX games, and MSX is one of the included formats in the Japanese Virtual Console.  That alone tells you how much influence Microsoft had over it.

thats quite cool hearing about this as i thought id heard everything that had happened in gaming ... ever

Actually Metal Gear was born on the NES, but really took off when it landed on PS1. And i am really glad is did because MGS is one of my ffavorite games to this day, actually i played it yesterday again :)