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.
That the Xbox had an x86 CPU didn’t make it a PC. Otherwise game consoles as a category don’t exist. Because the PS3 originally could run desktop Linux, the PS4 has an x86 CPU with a PC SSD and the Switch uses an Arm CPU like Tablets.