Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft entered the console market with a hulking black machine, an enormous controller and a game called Halo. What followed changed the industry in ways few could have predicted, and today, the original Xbox is finding an unlikely new home in our pockets.
You didn’t read the article.
"The article does make some interesting arguments about the changes, here are some excerpts:
“Without purchasing”
“Caching data and reduce load times”
Having to purchase an extra storage device that was slow and with extremely limited space is not equivalent to including a hard drive.