Microsoft Xbox
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| Microsoft Xbox | |
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| Codename | DirectX-box |
| Released | North America: November 15, 2001 Europe: March 14, 2002 Japan: February 22, 2002 |
| Online Service | Xbox Live |
| Discontinued | 2006 |
| Predecessor | None |
| Successor | Xbox 360 |
The Xbox was Microsoft's first home gaming console. The Xbox was part of the sixth generation of consoles, competeing against the Gamecube and Playstation 2 (with the Dreamcast already discontinued). The Xbox was created because of the fear that home gaming was stealing away from the PC business.
History
The Xbox, being Microsoft's first ever video game console, was popular in both America and Europe, but failed to capture much attention in Japan (which happened again with its successor, the Xbox 360). The Xbox was originally dubbed "DirectX-box" due to the fact that the Xbox uses DirectX all throughout its software. However, the name was dropped for simply Xbox later on in development. The famous "X" emblem is still used all over the system itself, partially in reference to the DirectX software.
The controller for the Xbox went under only one revision. The original, dubbed "The Duke," was very large in comparison to most other controllers for other game systems, and was heavily criticised for being far to large for comfort. Thus, Microsoft released the "Controller S" to address the complaints against the original. The Xbox is the first console to ever use a hard drive as internal storage. All other consoles either used flash memory (Sega CD) or memory cards (N64, Playstation). Though, the Xbox also used memory cards for data backup.
The Xbox was dicontinued in 2006 due to the graphics chip, made by NVIDIA, being stopped in production.
Xbox Live
Rare
Rare's involvement on the Xbox was slim, only producing two games. Both games (Conker: Live and Reloaded and Grabbed by the Ghoulies) were overall flops in comparison with most of Rare's previous library on the Nintendo consoles.
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