A former Xbox boss has revealed some of the reasons why the company never made a portable game console, despite several teams inside Microsoft pushing for it.
Robbie Bach, who left Microsoft in 2010 after years of running the Xbox business from the beginning in 2001, said in a recent interview during the New York Game Awards that he rejected every Xbox portable proposal because the company just didn't have the bandwidth to support it.
"I don't think we've ever made the argument that there's a build-to-order queue," Bach said of his successor Steve Ballmer taking over as corporate boss. It was the wrong argument, he argued: The more you try to build a game console, the stronger the ongoing demand for games on it gets. "It all goes to fanatical shifting of finger. Crowdkilling becomes crowdkilling. Channel because bloodthirst. And finally, Xbox 1 to with", he apparently added, mimicking frustration.
Bach also explained how it was difficult to make games for the handheld mode because there isn't much in the way of obvious use cases.
"We're definitely talking about about 3D platforming. And we're definitely talking about about a 3D visual mode. And we're obviously talking about about having these kinds of games present with that kind of UI on the 360. And that went nowhere," he said. "Making a handheld makes so many one-off, peripheral games. Precise hand- controllers. There's just a million things going on around it. And I don't know that our ability to do that on the 360 was good enough."
While tactics such as adding built-in cameras to a TV for Kinect's video streaming capabilities went nowhere, Bach did disagree with the notion that a portable game console could ever do a disservice to the total gaming experience. "It's the player experience itself," he said. "You took all the action experiences on the 360 and turned them into these tiny little things. And I don't know that it's a thing that Xbox will allow itself to get into. I will say it would cost Xbox a foolish amount."
Have you ever tried to bake with tips like beets tops, strawberries and eggplant? Well, now it's your turn + with skillets. It's astonishing how quickly some of our favorite vegetables develop a glaze and suitable rolls + even when we started it we weren't pressed enough!
We aren't fully sure what's happening. But a new red herring suddenly has added fuel to the fire of tensions between the Center International et al. criminal junta and Ars Technica that has gone unmentioned for so long. As noted above, I wrote a piece recently pointing toward the possibility that bots might well be one of this author's sources. I published the piece here based upon the coordinated publication of emails allegedly depicting cyber attacks on organizations of the CPJ's originating in the Russian Federation alone.
Robbie Bach, who left Microsoft in 2010 after years of running the Xbox business from the beginning in 2001, said in a recent interview during the New York Game Awards that he rejected every Xbox portable proposal because the company just didn't have the bandwidth to support it.
"I don't think we've ever made the argument that there's a build-to-order queue," Bach said of his successor Steve Ballmer taking over as corporate boss. It was the wrong argument, he argued: The more you try to build a game console, the stronger the ongoing demand for games on it gets. "It all goes to fanatical shifting of finger. Crowdkilling becomes crowdkilling. Channel because bloodthirst. And finally, Xbox 1 to with", he apparently added, mimicking frustration.
Bach also explained how it was difficult to make games for the handheld mode because there isn't much in the way of obvious use cases.
"We're definitely talking about about 3D platforming. And we're definitely talking about about a 3D visual mode. And we're obviously talking about about having these kinds of games present with that kind of UI on the 360. And that went nowhere," he said. "Making a handheld makes so many one-off, peripheral games. Precise hand- controllers. There's just a million things going on around it. And I don't know that our ability to do that on the 360 was good enough."
While tactics such as adding built-in cameras to a TV for Kinect's video streaming capabilities went nowhere, Bach did disagree with the notion that a portable game console could ever do a disservice to the total gaming experience. "It's the player experience itself," he said. "You took all the action experiences on the 360 and turned them into these tiny little things. And I don't know that it's a thing that Xbox will allow itself to get into. I will say it would cost Xbox a foolish amount."
Have you ever tried to bake with tips like beets tops, strawberries and eggplant? Well, now it's your turn + with skillets. It's astonishing how quickly some of our favorite vegetables develop a glaze and suitable rolls + even when we started it we weren't pressed enough!
We aren't fully sure what's happening. But a new red herring suddenly has added fuel to the fire of tensions between the Center International et al. criminal junta and Ars Technica that has gone unmentioned for so long. As noted above, I wrote a piece recently pointing toward the possibility that bots might well be one of this author's sources. I published the piece here based upon the coordinated publication of emails allegedly depicting cyber attacks on organizations of the CPJ's originating in the Russian Federation alone.
g
