I quoted some of my favorite references from the book, (to stir interest)...
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Gamers.com: "And there's plenty of reason for Microsoft not to like the book. "Any of the insidery stuff they just really didn't want to get out," Takahashi told Salon. "The fact that the initial code name was Project Midway -- they don't want the Japanese people to know that because it will hurt their feelings." The article explains that the Battle of Midway in 1942 was the turning point of the Pacific War. And this is in direct reference to the fact that before the launch of the Xbox, all of the console game makers--Sony, Nintendo, and Sega--were Japanese companies."
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Salon.com: "The initial cost (of the XB) estimate was for a machine with a bill of materials (engineering talk for cost) of $303. That machine would debut in the fall of 2000 and use a $20 microprocessor running at 350 megahertz from Advanced Micro Devices. The machine would also have a $55 hard disk drive with two gigabytes of storage, a $27 DVD drive to play movies, a $35 graphics chip, $25 worth of memory chips, and a collection of other standard parts like a motherboard, and power supply. Over time, these prices would decline. The WebTV crew weighed in again with their objections. They said the hard disk drive was unnecessary and too expensive. Brown said hard disk drive prices were falling and that he had seen one priced as low as $35. But Chris Phillips remembers thinking, "Oh great, you found a cheap hard disk on eBay and now you think that's what they cost."
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