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Xbox also had Live, an easier dev story, and a willingness to persist - it's been around since 2001. And it took a long time losing money!
by rodgerd 7y ago
Xbox also had Live, an easier dev story, and a willingness to persist - it's been around since 2001. And it took a long time losing money!
- Macha 7y agoAnd Microsoft were already in the gaming space, both as a publisher and via PC technologies like DirectX.
- rodgerd 7y agoYes, and I imagine they learned from their involvement with the Dreamcast, as well.
- ThrowawayB7 7y agoThat's a persistent myth; the team that launched the Xbox was an entirely different set of people in a different division from the team that worked on the Dreamcast collaboration with Sega.