Ben Gilbert: belief

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…A huge team and the Xbox project was amazing. I don't mean that in any way to throw shade at anybody at Microsoft. But they were in this position where they could just sit there. They could watch the market develop for computer graphics. By making very good strategic decisions, they could capture a ton of the value with other companies taking the risks of developing the market, figuring out all this stuff, and then Microsoft can come along and be like, great, NVIDIA, we're going to help save you from Intel. In return, you're going to give us a really sweetheart deal on these chips. And you're going to put us in business with Xbox. By the way, the other side of your gaming and computer graphics business on PCs, we're going to become your primary partner for that, too. All of the development languages that you're going to create, CG, and all that, we're tightly coupled with that and it's all going to work only on Windows. I think your assessment of Microsoft did basically nothing except make really good strategic decisions is reasonable enough for DirectX, but totally is not fair for Xbox. No, it's not fair for Xbox at all. It's not.…

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