Nearly two decades ago, rising from the ashes of the once-giant video game hardware manufacturer Sega, Microsoft debuted the Xbox and entered into the video game market with the intent of competing directly with Sony’s PlayStation brand. By 2006, Microsoft’s launch of the second-generation of Xbox video game consoles actually one-upped Sony’s PlayStation 3, which was riddled with one baffling marketing decision after another. However, Microsoft would soon find itself on the edge of one of the most prolific and devastating hardware failures in consumer electronic history... only to ignore it for as long as possible.

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