Episode 48 - Xbox... a History

It’s certainly not unique to tech or gadgets… but I hear people say all the time “we’re not allowed to have favorites”…

Well, I hate to break it to you, but we all do… myself included. And when it comes to video game consoles, my favorite has been the same for a very long time. We’ve walked together down the path of the great history of Consoles over the last few months, and this week we’re book-ending it with a “last but certainly not least moment”… albeit one that comes at a very big and potentially course-altering time for the company and brand we’re covering today…

You see, when a little Redmond-based software company (and yes, I’m kidding) decided over twenty years ago to throw caution to the wind and not only enter the hardware space but to do so against the likes of Nintendo and Sony a lot of people said they were crazy, it would be short lived, and possibly even disastrous for them… 

Fast forward those twenty-or-so years and Microsoft’s Xbox sit’s firmly alongside Sony and Nintendo at the forefront of the gaming world… but as we mentioned earlier… that world is changing at a breakneck pace… 

Rampant consolidation, massive hardware shortages, and skyrocketing costs are just a few of the hurdles not just ahead and upon Microsoft and their peers this very moment…

So the question remains, will Microsoft find a health pack quickly enough to jump to the next level, or have their aspirations taken them to the ultimate boss battle under-equipped and woefully outmatched? 

Let’s find out…