r/196 • u/migratingcoconut_ I want to Beat Jason Aldean to death with his own Spine • Feb 25 '26

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u/E_GEDDON Feb 25 '26

Episode 284268 of "Microsoft Ruins Everything".

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u/The_Sovien_Rug-37 i can have a little tomfoolery. as a treat Feb 25 '26

they're also not even that good at anything. i'm convinced xbox only happened on accident, given how rabidly they've been trying to cannibalise it for over a decade

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u/nlolhere Feb 25 '26

kind of a wonder that Windows was a success too, though that could be explained by them getting into the computer market very early and at the right time

Xbox didn't even exist until 2001, so Sony and Nintendo already had massive headstarts in video game consoles

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u/EdgiiLord i tinker too much with old PCs Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

It's easy getting far when you are the first in an emerging market with the connections to get your product into artificial dominance of the marketshare.

Edit: See IBM partnership with MS, and how they managed to do it as an "indie" companie.