Since its launch in 2001, Xbox is one of the most used consoles by video game fans.. A machine born from the idea of five Microsoft engineers who believed in the gaming revolution
Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Otto Berkes, Ted Hase and Nate Brown They were the brains who came up with the tech company’s first console, with the dream of being one of the main competitors to Sony’s PlayStation and Nintendo’s ‘Game Cube’.
In 1998, the company, co-founded by Bill Gates, was one of today’s leaders on a technological level, but its success and status as one of the best has not been assured over time. It may stop resonating in the minds of consumers at any time.
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That’s when members of the ‘DirectX’ team show up making video games a more challenging, better designed and revolutionary experience through a console. These employees were responsible for developing the games the company released to retain its following and drive greater adoption within the industry.
“A big part of our goal was to make the best games, and as developers and gamers we wanted to create a console that would be easy and fun to make games on,” Seamus Blackley said in the documentary ‘Power On – The Story of Xbox’. , released in 2022.
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Although there was a team designated for this, it was not easy to convince the senior management of this great idea. Engineers were required to have sufficient funding to carry out the project, but this was not viewed favorably by those with the power to manage the capital.
“We wanted to attend meetings to get support for this. We were annoying, “They refused to accept funds from the Office to finance the gaming system.”says Kevin Bachus.
Then-CEO Steve Ballmer thought the idea of creating the Xbox was crazy. because the company’s approach was very different and depended on the computer operating systemcomputers and work programs for different text tasks, presentations or statistics.
“They thought it was a crazy idea to release a games console. They thought, ‘We’re Microsoft, we’re creating Windows and making spreadsheets,’ it was chaotic,” says Blackley of the production.
After insisting and knocking on different doors within Microsoft, the console could finally be developed. It was originally intended to be called DirectX Box, but this was changed to Xbox.
The game system will be installed like a PC and run under Windows 2000 software, Something within the console architecture that will make the engineers’ job easier, In addition to doubling the processing capacity of the PS2.
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“Xbox is part of the counterculture story of creation, determination, failure, and success. Even if you’re not a gamer, these themes are universal. We always want to hear about people doing something a little crazy and swimming against the mainstream,” Microsoft’s chief marketing officer, Chris Capossela, said in a press release. ” said.
NATHALIA GÓMEZ PARRA
DIGITAL COVERAGE EDITORIAL
TIME
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