Why Microsoft Got Into the Console Business

An anonymous reader writes "Joachim Kempin, former vice president of Windows Sales, has explained how the original Xbox came to be. It turns out it was Sony's fault, simply because the Japanese company wasn't very friendly towards Microsoft, and Microsoft eventually decided they had to 'stop Sony.' Apparently, long before the Xbox was even an idea, Microsoft was trying to collaborate with Sony in a number of areas they thought there was overlap. That collaboration was sought before even Sony had a games console coming to market, and would have focused on products for the entertainment sector."

Comments

Re:I remember a story when I worked at Microsoft..

[Anonymous Coward]

Considering the fact that the PS3 couldn't even do background downloading at launch says more about Sony's arrogance than Bill Gates' (if the story is true) temper.

Re:Xbox Subscription

[drinkypoo]

Meanwhile? Up until recently you couldn't browse the net on your XBox360 at all, it's not as if they are suddenly charging for browsing, it's that they recently wrote a browser and added it to the already existing XBLG subscription.

You're confusing internet with web. Fail, fail.