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You’re not alone if a desktop computer caught your eye based on what you saw.
It has been more than 22 years since the first DirectX box or Xbox console was released in North America in November 2001. The black and green box with the large controller that went with it seemed to be quite new even back then, which is why we still remember it so vividly today. Behind closed doors, however, the classic machine was initially imagined quite differently.
Recently, Seamus Blackley, one of the console’s main designers and engineers, showed off a rudimentary version of the Xbox on the Twitter/X interface, which even at first glance looks much more like a desktop computer than a console.
With the post, the designer responded to a custom Xbox Series X that was reminiscent of the look of a 1990s PC tower. Blackley then shocked many by showing that the first console was essentially exactly the same. Although the iconic green logo is already there, otherwise all we can see is a silver desktop computer with a hard drive.
People who don’t know this looks very similar to the prototype @Xbox Devkits won’t understand why I just vacuumed my coffee. This is what they looked like: pic.twitter.com/Iy7Y4UyxLh
– Seamus Blackley (@SeamusBlackley) January 3, 2024
Of course, Blackley also added that the version shown in the image is a dev kit, a test version for developers that was most likely only ever intended for internal use. So perhaps it’s understandable why there are no traces of this version on the console released in 2001, but in any case it’s a particularly exciting piece of gaming history that is perhaps even more interesting to look at 22 years later.
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