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Sony has sparked a new console war and now faces the bad press and negative sentiment that ultimately crippled the Xbox One right out of the gate.

Iwata: [Laughs] Updated on 6 January 2021 What if Microsoft bought Nintendo in the run up to the original Xbox? The last 20 years of video games would look pretty different, I imagine. Well, it turns out Microsoft actually tried to make it happen. In an oral history on the creation of the original Xbox published by Bloomberg (paywall), those involved with the console reveal they tried to use Microsoft's millions to secure Xbox exclusives, and actually met Nintendo to see if they would consider being acquired. But, according to Kevin Bachus, former directo...

AnandTech Year In Review 2020: Solid State Drives Setting Up The Future: Partnerships, Layers, & New Tech Solid state storage might not have been the most exciting tech sector to follow in 2020, but it certainly had its fair share of new technologies arriving, consumer-friendly price drops, and a major corporate acquisition deal. COVID-19 Impact on Supply and Demand Going into 2020, most analysts were predicting that a shortage of NAND flash memory would develop and drive up SSD prices, especially in the second half of the year. The COVID-19 pandemic upended those predictions. Early on in the...