Microsoft decided that in order for their investments in gaming to truly pay off, they to get involved with the console market. In spite of these efforts, which led to several acclaimed PC titles released during the decade, it was Sony Interactive Entertainment who became the runaway success of the gaming world during this time, with the original PlayStation selling over 100 million consoles worldwide, while overall sales of PC games declined. During The '90s, Microsoft invested heavily in gaming on the PC, introducing the DirectX Application Programming Interface that finally prompted PC game developers to move from DOS to Microsoft Windows, and even published and developed numerous games themselves such as their Age of Empires series.
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