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The Xbox is a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft that is the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles.It was released as Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market on November 15, 2001, in North America, followed by Australia, Europe and Japan in 2002. [3]
In the history of video games, the sixth generation era (in rare occasions called the 128-bit era; see "bits and system power" below) is the era of computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld gaming devices available at the turn of the 21st century, starting on November 27, 1998.
The Xbox 360 was released as the successor of the original Xbox in November 2005, competing with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It featured a custom triple-core 64-bit PowerPC-based processor design by IBM with 512 MB of RAM memory.
Across all four generations of the Xbox platform, the user interface of the system software has been called the Xbox Dashboard. While its appearance and detailed functions have varied between console generations, the Dashboard has provided the user the means to start a game from the optical media loaded into the console or off the console's storage, launch audio and video players to play ...
This is a list of games that were published by Microsoft from 1979 to 2000 before the foundation of Microsoft Games division, now known as Xbox Game Studios. List [ edit ]
Although the PC version of Morrowind had gone gold by April 23, 2002, [51] and was released on May 1 in North America, [52] the Xbox release was delayed further. On April 15, GameSpot suggested an Xbox release date sometime in May and a scheduled "going gold" date for the Xbox version in the first week of the same month. [53]
The Xbox Official Xbox Banner used on games exclusive to Xbox. The Xbox is Microsoft's first home video game console, released during the sixth generation of video games. There are a total of 989 [a] titles on this list. This list does not include Xbox Live Arcade games, demos, or bonus discs.
The top of the Xbox, disassembled. It uses a standard DVD-ROM and Hard-disk drive via Parallel ATA. Storage media 2×–5× (2.6 MB/s–6.6 MB/s) CAV DVD-ROM 8 or 10 GB, 3.5 in, 5,400 RPM hard disk formatted to 8 GB with FATX file system