Opening the Xbox
by Dean Takahashi · first published 2002
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"The video game industry is expected to double in sales over the next five years. It has already eclipsed motion pictures to become one of the largest and fastest growing markets in history and a lamplight illuminating where the future of entertainment is headed. In an effort to grab a chunk of that market, Microsoft - an absolute newcomer to the gaming industry - has put billions of dollars on the line in a gamble to build the fastest, most mature, most advanced video game console ever: the Xbox. Is this new Microsoft venture just another experiment that, like WebTV, was launched to much fan
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…(jumping at the right opportunity from the sea that life presents you with). I have three great book suggestions for people interested in the history behind video games: 1) Masters of Doom 2) Game Over 3) Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution
on “Crash Bandicoot as a Startup” ↗I read a lot of cool stuff about this guy in the book "Opening the Xbox" by Dean Takahashi[1] and on Alex St. John's blog (which is unfortunately offline now) He sounded like every bit as great a programmer as John Carmack or any of the relatively famous linux maintainers…
on “Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died” ↗At least on the XBox, Gates and Allard interacted a fair bit. From the book "Opening the XBox": "In the next meeting with Gates, Allard, Ferroni, and Thomason broke the news that the machine wouldn't be able to run the full Windows OS...Hase says he admired Allard for 'having the stones' to 'rip…
on “The inside story of how Microsoft killed its Courier tablet (Part 1)” ↗