I don't know if you guys have seen this, but it's a great article.
http://retro.ign.com/articles/974/974695p1.htmlA LOT of really interesting things. This is what I found the most intriguing.
More competition was brewing on the horizon as well. Sony and Nintendo were anticipated by all, but Microsoft, the new generation's dark horse, surprised a few. It was no shock, however, to Stolar. Early in the Dreamcast's life, they came to SEGA "offering" to put Windows CE on the Dreamcast, a move that Stolar saw as a transparent Trojan horse to get into the hardware business. He explains his frustrations:
"[Microsoft] brought a whole team of people in. They got to learn the business and then walk away. I said to sell them the company, and they should have, because then they could have gotten out of the hardware business clean. I knew [Microsoft President of Entertainment & Devices] Robbie Bach really well, and I said, 'Hey, let's just get this done.' [sighs] Those things happen in the world of business." -- Bernie Stolar
So that explains the similarity between the Xbox and Dreamcast controller.
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