The mark Xbox Microsoft , along with the PlayStation and Nintendo, is undoubtedly one of the most influential in the world of video games. But at the beginning it was not so at the beginning someone did not like Xbox, and we’re not talking about the last employee of Redmond but the number 1: Bill Gates .
This was revealed was Ed Fries , one of the men who helped give birth to the first, historic Xbox. Fries said that during the months of planning, prior to its launch in 2001 in the USA, were two teams to work on the project of the first console Microsoft signed: one worked so Xbox was a kind of “Pc -console “, the other team was concerned instead of making a totally different hardware product.
of the two projects Gates chose the” PC-console solution “, imagining that Xbox would work with Windows, and Fries was the team working on it. Despite this, the project took a different turn, and then, as we know, Windows was abandoned in order to create an ad hoc operating system, more suited to video games. But n Nobody said it to Bill Gates , which only came to find out at a meeting.
When I heard of this, Bill Gates literally went on a rampage, setting even Xbox as an insult to everything that Microsoft represented. Pure Steve Ballmer was not happy with the enormous amount of resources invested to develop the console.
When the project was about to run aground, during that historic meeting a clerk pointed out that if you had not tried to launch Xbox, Sony would take full control of the gaming business thanks to its Playstation . At that point, Bill Gates calmed down and decided it was good to invest as much as possible to snatch the leadership to the Japanese competitors.
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