TIME ranks Xbox as Top 10 Microsoft moment
- November 11, 2008 15:32 PM PST
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Microsoft's foray into gaming shares the spotlight with Bill Gates, Windows, antitrust lawsuits, and Seinfeld.
It was inevitable. In 2001, the world's largest software maker started making hardware, specifically video game consoles, because he who sells the most consoles sells the most games (software).
So it's no surprise to find the launch of the original Xbox at number eight on TIME's Top 10 Microsoft Moments, published yesterday to commemorate Window's 25th anniversary.
"At the turn of the century, Microsoft and Bill Gates realized that the company really, really wanted a piece of the video game market," the magazine writes. "Gates built buzz for the Xbox for over a year before unveiling the console at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2001. By the holiday shopping season, gamers all over America wanted them, launching a three-way battle for video-game dominance between the Xbox, Sony's PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo GameCube."
Other events to make TIME's list include the launch of Windows in 1983, Microsoft's antitrust lawsuit with the United States government 1998, and the failed Seinfeld Vista commercials.
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- Nov 11 2008 at 03:42:50:PM PST
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wait i thought xbox was fail but the xbox 360 was were their sucess was????
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Microsoft has changed gaming with the Xbox. It was the first to introduce a hard drive to consoles. This enables players to put their own soundtracks in games and more. Also online gaming really started to grow quickly with the launch of Xbox Live. Microsoft has done so much but the creation of the Xbox is surely one of their biggest successes.
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What about MSX? That was a Microsoft gaming console, though it bombed. I think the writer of the article assumed Xbox was Microsoft's first video game system.
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doyleman7 wrote:
lol... Time must be on crack.That or u just jealous lol
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microsoft msx is better, though it was not released in the US. I played some of their games, reminds me of the colecovision and the Sega SG-1000
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