... on Sony and Nintendo in the video game business and to make games the company's premier entertainment medium. "We've put quite a budget behind this one, and we're going to break through in a very big way," Mr. Gates concluded to the audience of game developers. More than the marketing promises from the world's richest man, however, it was Mr. Blackley's demos that made this proposition credible. The X-Man Until the Xbox ... , few people outside the industry knew much about Mr. Blackley, but he was a familiar ... caused angst for Mr. Blackley's cohorts. Mr. Gates and Mr. Ballmer weren't ...

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