Xbox 360 Launch: Success or Mess?

[Paco]

Here's the first thing. MS didn't make a "hasty" jump into consoles. The code named "XBox" had been announced for many long years before that particular incarnation. In fact, at first some people believed MS would scrap this model and delay yet again.

I'll have to find the interview, I believe it was on eurogamer.net, but I think what I said was almost verbatim from one of the Microsoft execs. I'll see what I find...