[agoodthrowaway]

Gaming is hard. It’s hard to disrupt when we have PlayStation, XBox, and Nintendo. Xbox was able to break in because they had Halo. Nintendo has tons of games people love.

PlayStation has a great ecosystem. You need more than just a Google name to break in.

[rodgerd]

Xbox also had Live, an easier dev story, and a willingness to persist - it's been around since 2001. And it took a long time losing money!

[Macha]

And Microsoft were already in the gaming space, both as a publisher and via PC technologies like DirectX.

[rodgerd]

Yes, and I imagine they learned from their involvement with the Dreamcast, as well.

[ThrowawayB7]

That's a persistent myth; the team that launched the Xbox was an entirely different set of people in a different division from the team that worked on the Dreamcast collaboration with Sega.

[sogen]

and Apple Arcade, with a flat monthly fee