Bear with me because it’s getting out of hand.
Micro Soft
Microcomputer software
Broke into the mainstream by being able to hot swap a game.
That grew into the only American driven hardware gaming company: Xbox
The Xbox broke into the mainstream by being able to connect four of them together to have 16 people playing games together under one roof
Now read this article again and laugh a little, it is okay, they’re the driver of this global dystopia and the state of play on Xbox is just the canary of how bad AI is going.
tbh I never knew about that. I always assumed it was Halo that drove those early sales.
You’re 100% right that it’s halo, but it wasn’t
“No couch co-op halo”
Bros wanted to help augment the surveillance state with the Kinect on Xbox one originally by having it be a required feature AND for the internet to be online all the time “to validate software licenses”
Whoever can pull an old school 80s Microsoft heist, will win the next era of gaming.
Like, if it doesn't have aggressive idle-detection, I'd eat my entire 5-hours on a pause menu while dealing with an upset-baby.
5-hours/month just seems like it would be totally useless for someone with frequent interruptions.