Extracto del libro "Xbox360 Uncloaked".

Me parece que este post va a pasar desapercibido entre todo el barullo pre-E3, pero creo que vale la pena pegarle una leida.
Es un estracto del libro de Dean Takahashi "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next-Generation Video Game Console".
Aquí un resumen del contenido del texto:

"His Xbox 360 follow-up, The Xbox 360 Uncloaked, offers us similar access for Microsoft's new console. It reveals such details as Bill Gates' original mandate to offer a version of the Xbox 360 with the Windows OS, Ed Fries' decision to sign an exclusive game detail with Epic Games over Valve (tossing Valve's proposal in the trash), and Epic's influence in upping the system's RAM from 256 to 512 MB (by showing Microsoft screenshots of Gears of War running under both circumstances) - which ultimately cost Microsoft $900 million extra and consequently resulted in fewer units at launch. The book also offers a fantastic window into the struggles behind launching Halo 2 - everything from the game's disastrous crash at E3 (because the Xbox console was placed near a giant speaker), to Jason Jones' suggestion to postpone its release until the Xbox 360 (but instead simply saving the second half of the game for 360), to even Ed Fries' last ditch threat to quit his job if Bungie weren't given to the fall of 2004 to finish the game. "

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