Microsoft havde stor succes med Xbox 360-konsollen, og da de i sin tid afslørede Xbox One for omverdenen, lod firmaet til at være ganske selvsikre omkring maskinen. Faktisk har Xbox-chefen Phil Spencer nu afsløret i et interview med Stevivor, at det originale mål var at sælge hele 200 millioner konsoller, og det ville have gjort Xbox One til den mest succesfulde konsol nogensinde:
"The goal that the team had was to figure out how could we sell 200 million game consoles. We've never seen a console sell that many units. The biggest individual console, the PS2, did 120 million or something like that."
Dog har konsollen, og særligt filosofien bag den, ændret sig en del siden afsløringen, og Spencer fortæller at fokusset nu er tilbage på gaming:
"When we came in after two-and-a-half years ago and started running the Xbox program. I centred us back on not trying to become something other than a game console. You don't earn the right to be relevant in other categories of usage for the console until you've earned the gaming right, so let's go make sure that's what we deliver."
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