data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft released the original Xbox back in 2001, a whole year after data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/sony” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/sony”>Sony debuted the PS2, but what we saw at launch was a very different console from what was first showcased. The initial design was starkly different—a metal monolith built literally in the shape of an “X”—and served only as a proof-of-concept. It was unique, expensive, and most importantly, unlike a PC, but it never left the prototype stage. That was until now, as Macho Nacho Productions has data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMP8JvGWNY” data-url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMP8JvGWNY” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>just brought back the console in an…

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