Xbox launch | Microsoft’s first gaming console released | Techday, November 15th
On this TECHDAY in history, on November 15th 2001, marked the Xbox first release! Xbox, Microsoft’s first gaming console, went on sale ifrstly in the US market. The Xbox was the result of four Microsoft engineers “experimenting” with pieces of a Dell laptop in order to assemble a gaming console that would run Windows. All of them were from the DirectX API development department. The original name of the device was DirectXbox, indicating the platform on which it was being designed. The name Xbox is an abbreviation of that. Xbox introduced some groundbreaking features, such as a built-in hard drive and Dolby Surround sound with real-time encoding. The Xbox went up against Sony’s Playstation 2 and, later, Nintendo’s GameCube. With around 25 million sales it narrowly beat the latter but fell far short of the former.
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