Then you obviously never owned one.

No the article is not. But then again you apparently read "the Xbox had an ethernet port" as "Xbox LIVE was the first online service on consoles" and thought bringing up SegaNet was a total counter.

You didn't read the article.

"The article does make some interesting arguments about the changes, here are some excerpts:

That hard drive was particularly important. Players could save progress without purchasing memory cards, while games could use the storage for caching data and reducing loading times.

"Without purchasing"

"Caching data and reduce load times"

Having to purchase an extra storage device that was slow and with extremely limited space is not equivalent to including a hard drive.

xbox started off as essentially a cheap PC, but limited software choices.

It was revolutionary to people who wouldn’t , or couldn’t, get a pc.