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Bill Gates Apparently Put “A Lot Of Pressure” On Xbox’s Team Leaders To Respond To The Wii Craze

And so Kinect was born.

Xbox’s new six-part documentary series celebrating the 20 year history of Microsoft’s console gaming division has a lot of company secrets and industry insights and one highlight from a Nintendo perspective is a brief segment about motion gaming in Chapter 5.

In the holiday 2006, Nintendo launched its new motion-controlled Wii console and it turned the “world upside down” in the words of former Microsoft/Xbox Game Studios employee Shannon Loftis. It also caught Nintendo’s competitors by surprise.

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