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| − | The Xbox is a games console developed by Microsoft and released on the 15th of November 2001. The console was designed to directly compete with Sony's PlayStation 2. In 1998http://xboxdevwiki.net/index.php?title=Talk:Xbox&action=edit&redlink=1, Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Ted Hase and Otto Berkes, disassembled some Dell laptops to create a Windows based gaming machine, dubbed the DirectXbox. The team then approached Ed Fries, the leader of Microsoft's game publishing division at the time, with their idea. Ed Fries chose to support the team's idea. | + | The Xbox is a games console developed by Microsoft and released on the 15th of November 2001. |
| − | During development of the console, the team shortened the name to Xbox, which the marketing division at Microsoft not liking the idea. Focus testing showed that consumers preferred the name "Xbox" over anything else that was said during testing, so the name stuck.
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| − | The Xbox was designed with multiplayer in mind, as the console had a ethernet cable and 4 controller ports. In 2002 Microsoft released Xbox Live, a subscription service where players could pay a monthly fee to play online with other Xbox owners in games such as ''Halo'', ''Project Gotham Racing'', and ''Madden''. The service was discontinued on April 15th, 2010, where 12 players sat in a lobby of ''Halo 2'' 24/7 to keep the server running. Microsoft saluted their decision, and said that they weren't going to kick the players off. Instead they offered the players Halo: Reach beta codes. The final player, Apache N4SIR was streaming the entire thing, as the 12 players twindeled down to just him. On stream, he was wondering what he should do, and one viewer suggested playing through the campain, but not beating the final mission, as it would kick him offline, and at 11:40 PM PDT, on May 11th 2010, Apache was booted from the game. This image details the story (https://external-preview.redd.it/A6pf_qIL-DN--q3jRIvcRvklICQp-qk3zJjwogSGTzY.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e5c0b2fa5f8f7b5fdbec96cd26d015177e399542)
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| − | Emulation for the original xbox exists, as there are 3 emulators for it, XQEMU, Cxbx-r and an emulator that Strider3X is developing
| + | * [[wikipedia:Xbox (console)|Wikipedia article]] |
Latest revision as of 11:32, 5 April 2019
The Xbox is a games console developed by Microsoft and released on the 15th of November 2001.
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