Xbox vs Playstation - The Biggest Cannon in the World | 1
Business Wars
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🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Sony was preparing Playstation to eventually replace personal computers. Microsoft sees that coming and goes into combat mode. Bill Gates spends more than two billion dollars to launch Microsoft’s Xbox console with innards that Gates hopes will not only put Sony on the defensive but will one day replace PCs as the future of digital home entertainment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars, add free on Amazon music. |
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| 0:07.0 | It's Valentine's Day in the year 2000 at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. |
| 0:19.6 | Love is not in the air, but something that smells like fear is. |
| 0:25.0 | Nine months ago, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told his engineers to start work on Xbox. |
| 0:31.5 | He worries that Sony is trying to use PlayStation to push Windows PCs out of the home, so Gates |
| 0:37.7 | is playing both defense and offense here. |
| 0:41.2 | He wants to stop Sony, but also use the Xbox as a first step toward putting Windows |
| 0:46.6 | at the center of home entertainment. |
| 0:48.8 | You see, Gates is already imagining a world where once Xbox gets into our living rooms, |
| 0:54.5 | it doesn't just bring Windows with it, but it becomes the portal for a world where television |
| 1:00.2 | supplies all kinds of entertainment, music, movies, and games. |
| 1:05.5 | The question now is whether the Xbox team is actually delivered a plan that can push Sony |
| 1:11.6 | back on its heels. |
| 1:15.4 | Microsoft's top executives and the Xbox team are in a meeting room waiting for Gates. |
| 1:21.4 | His running late, the mood is tense. |
| 1:26.0 | Suddenly Gates storms into the room. |
| 1:28.8 | He's wearing a pale purple shirt and holding a copy of the Xbox business plan. |
| 1:34.4 | He slams the business plan onto the table and glares at the Xbox team. |
| 1:39.2 | This plan is a freaking insult to everything I've built. |
| 1:43.1 | The Xbox team is taken aback by Gates' fury. |
| 1:46.7 | At Freeze, the boss of Microsoft Game Studios tries to respond, |
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