In this excerpt from Rusel deMaria's new Xbox history tome, "Game of X - Vol 1: The Untold History of Xbox", original team members recount how the Xbox project started -- and how it got its name.
As consoles go, the SNES has quite the family friendly image. But, just like a Pizza Hut when you look at its hygiene rating or taste its pizza or breathe inside a restaurant, it’s not always good for everyone.
Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era
I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.
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Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.
The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.
That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest.
@christopher: “ That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest”
The key word big can be ether good or bad 🤷🏿only time can tell
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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:
Switch 2 – 140,026
Switch Lite – 5,212
Switch OLED – 5,110
PS5 – 3,581
Switch – 2,442
PS5 Pro – 1,676
PS5 Digital Edition – 749
Xbox Series S – 107
Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 47
Xbox Series X – 37
PS4 – 28
Nintendo - 152,790 units
PlayStation - 6,034 units
Microsoft - 191 units
Nintendo selling 25x as many units as the next closest competitor.
“ Nintendo Switch 2 still dominating in Japan”
Such a strange headline. I mean it’s a brand new console released on June 5th. It would be weird if it wasn’t still dominating in sales.
I figure its dominating everywhere. I stopped with consoles this gen sticking with PC and the switch will get 99% of the games this way.
Going strong sales! The Switch 2 was launched here in Southeast Asia on June 26. I was among those who pre-ordered. I got my unit the same day with Cyberpunk 2077, and there was a long line of people getting their pre-orders, not as long as the line when a NBA 2K series launched, but it was different because it will be released on all platforms.
I want to see how well the June and July world wide sales.
What a great start the Xbox had. Halo combat evolved is a masterpiece. still have my OG Xbox. it's a shame ms is sinking this brand faster than a sea of thieves sinking ship.
Xbox started because Microsoft wanted to "stop Sony". https://www.mcvuk.com/devel...
Steve Ballmer was pissed off that Sony rejected Windows as the OS for the PlayStation (because as you know, they think that everybody wants to be on board with their monopoly) and decided to venture into the console biz to compete them out of business, as was their modus operandi. Look where we are now and you can see why they can't compete when it comes to GAMES. They weren't founded by the right people with the right mindset. They don't currently have the right talent and they've only let whatever positive talent they had over the years leave, and not bothered to replace it.
That is the difference between Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft in this industry. The other 2 were founded by those working in the creative/entertainment industry, and Microsoft founded Xbox on an enterprise level, not from a gaming/entertainment standpoint.
Direct X?
The team got the name Xbox because they knew at this point in life there wouldn’t be any games on it to play.........
Thats a joke guys
I want to know how they leased instead of bought certain parts which made them unable to mod the system and reduce production costs. A real no brainier especially considering they had experienced console makers working with them.