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The Microsoft Xbox Series S and X models start a new page in the gaming titan’s history. With such a rock-solid market position, you’d think Microsoft must be one of the oldest console brands. In reality, Xbox is a relatively new player. Let’s peak into the memory card to appreciate the consoles that forged Microsoft’s gaming legacy.
Generation One — The First Xbox
Release date: November 15, 2001
Launch price: $299
Total sales: Over 24 million units
In the early 2000s, Nintendo and Sony were at the forefront of 3D gaming. Microsoft — a new, American competitor to the Japanese juggernauts — entered the fray with the Xbox in 2001, only a year after the PlayStation 2 debuted and the same year as the Nintendo GameCube.
The Xbox was a fierce competitor, offering a 733 megahertz Intel Pentium III processor that was more powerful than the PS2 or GameCube. It also had a built-in hard disk for storage, plus an Ethernet port for online gaming through Xbox Live — one of the first fee-based gaming services. Exclusive titles like Halo and Halo 2 were tim
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Xbox
Video gaming brand owned by Microsoft
This article is about the brand. For the 2001 console, see Xbox (console). For other uses, see Xbox (disambiguation).
Xbox is a video gamingbrand that consists of five home video game consoles, as well as applications (games), the streaming service Xbox Cloud Gaming, and online services such as the Xbox network and Xbox Game Pass. The brand is produced by Microsoft Gaming, a division of Microsoft.
The brand was first introduced in the United States in November 2001, with the launch of the original Xbox console. The Xbox branding was formerly, from 2012 to 2015, used as Microsoft's digital media entertainment brand replacing Zune.[1][2] In 2022, Microsoft expanded its gaming business and reorganized Xbox to become part of its newly formed Microsoft Gaming division. Under Microsoft Gaming, Xbox's first-party publishers are Xbox Game Studios, ZeniMax Media (Bethesda Softworks), and Activision Blizzard (Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, and King), who own numerous studios and successful franchises.
The origina
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Xbox (console)
Video game console by Microsoft
This article is about the 2001 console. For the "Xbox" brand and series of consoles, see Xbox.
Xbox console with the "Xbox Controller" | |
| Developer | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Flextronics,[1]Wistron[2] |
| Product family | Xbox |
| Type | Home video game console |
| Generation | Sixth |
| Release date | |
| Introductory price | US$299 (equivalent to $510 in 2023) £299 (equivalent to £610 in 2023)[4] €479[5] |
| Discontinued | |
| Units sold | 24 million+ (as of May 10, 2006)[8] |
| Media | DVD, CD, digital distribution |
| Operating system | Windows NT-based Xbox system software |
| CPU | Custom 733 MHz IntelPentium III "Coppermine-based" processor |
| Memory | 64 MB of DDR SDRAM @ 200 MHz |
| Storage | 8 or 10 GB internal hard drive (formatted to 8 GB with allotted system reserve and MS Dash), 8 MB memory card |
| Display | 480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p, 1080i |
| Graphics | Nvidia GeForce 3-based NV2AGPU @ 233 MHz[9] |
| Controller input | 4 × Xbox contro
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