What if it was a 3DO? Would we have the big two today--Nintendo and Sony?  What impact would it have had on the gaming world besides the online and HDD standard experience?

MS payed big money on games. That wasn't done with the 3DO. Plus from a financial perspective the first xbox was a big failure.

However MS succeeded cuz they made a fairly good system with good games and they garnered a user base which has allowed them to make money this gen. Plus it was their strategy to keep Sony from monopolizing console gaming and that was also a success.

Online wouldn't be what it is now without them however improving tech has made it impossible to build a system without some sort of internal storage memory and have it be accepted by users so that would have happened anyway. No one wants to swap memory cards regularly like in the PS1 days and HDD would have become standard regardless.

well it did fail in most aspects. the only good it really did was:

- made online gaming popular

- Halo series

- Internal memory

and thats all i can think of.

well it basically did, its just that ms has the money to support it no matter how shitty its doing.

The way I see it, the original XBox did fail from the start.

What if germany had won the second world war?
These questions answer nothing imo.

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it fail.

m$ had more money so they continue.

come on guys, it didn't fail, it was a failure.