>>12351745>reading game reviews from the Playstation/Saturn era makes me wonder if the fix was in. How much was Sony paying the journos back then?look at the multi-platform publications after Xbox was announced. Even my teenage self thought something was fishy about how the gaming media was busting nuts all over the place for the Xbox before it was even announced. Sure, it was a powerful system and Halo was and still is dope. But, MS was a very hated company by many gamers (this is back when Bill Gates was one of the most hated people on earth), they were unproven in the console market, and the console itself was ugly as fuck. The marketing was awkward and it was very obvious that MS was brute forcing their way into the industry.
A lot of people think that MS actually sabotaged the DC while it was still in development. We do know that some of Sega's people came over to work on the Xbox. At what point they were offered to come work from MS is anyone's guess. We also know that the Xbox was basically "Dreamcast 2" when you look at the franchises they brought over. The controller is a revised version of the DC controller. Early concepts even had a VMU slot, see pic related.