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Xbox: The Making of a Bad-Ass Machine by [Dean Takahashi]

Xbox: The Making of a Bad-Ass Machine Kindle Edition

by Dean Takahashi (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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This book comes on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox video game console, which debuted Nov. 15, 2001. This history follows the Xbox from conception to launch, and then from launch through today.

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116 pages
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December 6, 2011
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Sang

Wished it was better

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2012

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I've heard good things about Venture Beat's Dean Takahashi. Been waiting for a long time for his 2 Xbox books to be available on Kindle.
This edition is suppose to be 2 books merged into 1.

[Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution]
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[The Xbox 360 Uncloaked:: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next-Generation Video Game Console]

The combined length of both books are 700 pages. This ebook is no where near that length. The length felt like I was reading a long Wired magazine article.
The formatting is all weird too. The reference to the pictures don't make sense and just out of place on a e-reader Kindle device. It looks like no QA was done on the e-book format.(I've read this on Kindle 4th gen)

There are other issues such as typos and spacing issues as well. It gives you decent information on the birth of the Xbox. Good read overall.

I would rather pay $10 each for the full books given they are taking full advantage of Kindle format.

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DUONG Jean

Interesting read for any Xbox fans

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 19, 2016

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Simple and great chronological structure
Interesting behind the scene anecdotes
Quick and easy read (1h30 min total)
Great value, price at time of reading was $2.99 Kindle version

As a long time Xbox fan since its birth and now working in the gaming industry,it was a pleasant read and recommend it for players as well as those interested in videogame business management

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xrgtn

Too littlle

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 3, 2012

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The book is very short (and occasionally repetitive, despite its minuscule length) -- I've finished it in 2 hours. But it did tell me at least 4 stories that I hadn't heard before. I suspect that other Takahashi's books deliver more, but this one disappointed me, it's not worth $4.99 IMO

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A quick wrap

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2013

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Good read, some parts were riveting and others were just fillers. Had great expectations, but was short on most of them, didn't get insights into people or products as much as other books of similar genre. Nevertheless it was good and easy read.

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Renan Bianchi Cunha Arantes

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 2, 2014

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Excellent read! I Wish the gamecube had a good 'making-of' like the xbox.

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