This put considerable strain on NeXT's hardware division, and in 1993, after having sold only 50,000 machines, NeXT transitioned fully to software development with the release of NeXTSTEP/Intel.
To způsobilo značný tlak na hardwarovou divizi NeXTu a v roce 1993, poté, co prodali jen 50 000 kusů, přešla NeXT plně na vývoj software NeXTSTEP pro platformu Intel.