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Nobody ever talks about the PC market being fragmented Really? I think it's common to consider the PC market to be fragmented, especially when it comes to com

Nobody ever talks about the PC market being fragmented Really? I think it's common to consider the PC market to be fragmented, especially when it comes to complex software like games.

mechanical_fish 16y ago
The XBox was born of the fact that it used to be an incredible pain in the neck to get PC games running on your custom hardware. That and the fact that custom hardware evolved so quickly that programmers could barely target a given class of GPU before it was obsolete.
- ctide 16y ago
  I always assumed it was born out of Microsoft's desire to make more money.
- mey 16y ago
  The xbox was born of the Microsoft desires to expand their product offering into consumer media entertainment.
- DannoHung 16y ago
  Uh, hmm, y'know considering that the XBox was a single core clocked at 733mhz with 512mb of shared RAM at a time when your average gaming PC was packing approximately twice ghat power plus a discrete graphics card, I can't help but think that the fact that the developers knew the exact performance characteristics of the machine made it a lot easier to wrench a lot of power out of it. Also, it stuck around for at least 4 years. There has got to be something to the fact that they didn't stick with an x86 architecture for the next revision as well.