We continue with the 20th anniversary of the Xbox, this year we learn anecdotes and unknown details which are undoubtedly curious, and help us to understand a little better how the whole project was raised from the offices of Redmond. Yesterday we showed you some prototypes of the Original Xbox Dashboard, and today it’s one of those trivia that you will surely like.
And it turns out that the media Next Gen Magazine decided to contact Microsoft because they had a reliable source that had detailed the entire Xbox project. I mean they knew that the Americans worked on a new video game consoleIn fact, it would be the first in the history of the company. In the words of David Hufford, director of public relations for the division:
I hang up the phone, run to the downstairs stairs where the engineering team was, and say, “Oh my god, guys, I think you know. “
The Xbox project, couldn’t run away
For the company, it was important that the project be filtered to us so early that they would lose the impact of anticipating such a product. That’s why Seamus Blackey decided to lie when he was asked about it by some media. Indeed, the one who was one of the fathers of the first console remembers it with humor.
His lie claimed that he was working on the “API for FX 3D Video Cards for Windows”, something that didn’t seem to suit interviewers very well.
I told them, no, man. I do not know what you’re talking about. What is Xbox?
What are you talking about? I am the entertainment graphics program manager for Windows. I am working on an API for FX 3D video cards for Windows. He was obviously lying to her …
Blackey says that while he was lying he was soldering Xbox Dev Kits. He also says he thinks he knows who the leakers were, who were mostly company employees. Unfortunately, it didn’t distort that data, but it would have been nice to know as well.
