The Xbox is a home video console and the first installment in the xbox series of consoles manufactured by microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001, in North America, followed by Australia and Europe in 2002.
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The last Xbox game in Europe was Xialon showdown released in June 2007, and the last game in North America was madden NFL 09 released in August 2008.
The Xbox was the first video game console to feature a built-in hard disk drive, used primarily for storing game saves and content downloaded from Xbox Live. This eliminated the need for separate memory cards. An Xbox user could rip music from standard audio CDs to the hard drive, and these songs were used for the custom soundtracks in some games.
The Xbox controller features two analog sticks,
a pressure-sensitive directional pad, two analog triggers, a Back
button, a Start button, two accessory slots and six 8-bit analog action
buttons .
Sony countered the Xbox for a short time by temporarily securing
PlayStation 2 exclusives for highly anticipated games such as the grand theft auto series and the metal gear solid series as well as Nintendo for the resident evil series.
The Xbox has sold 24 million units worldwide as of May 10, 2006, according to Microsoft.
This is divided out to 16 million units sold in North America, six
million units in Europe, and just two million units sold in Asia,
Australia, and New Zealand.
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