The original Xbox and the shooter Halo to celebrate on Tuesday their tenth anniversary. Microsoft introduced the first Xbox on november 15, 2001 in the United States, along with Halo: Combat Evolved as one of the launch games.
Microsoft brought the Xbox on the market as a response on the PlayStation 2 from Sony, the GameCube of Nintendo and the Dreamcast from Sega. Bill Gates sold the first copy of the console during the nocturnal opening of a branch of retail chain Toys ‘R Us in New York. In Europe, it was the console of Microsoft on march 14, 2002 in the shelves laid.
The bulky body of the console was home to a 733MHz Intel Pentium III processor, 64MB RAM and a 233MHz-Nvidia-gpu. The device was initially shipped with a massive controller, which by gameswebsite IGN in 2006, and the second was ranked in a list of ‘worst controllers of all time’. The large controller was in 2002 replaced by the “Xbox controller S”, which resembles the current Xbox 360 controllers.
The life cycle of the Xbox was signed by initially disappointing sales, and several price reductions. The console was the platform on which Microsoft in november 2002, Xbox Live launched. Thus he laid Microsoft the foundation for what is now one of the most important elements of the Xbox 360.
15 november 2001 was the release date of Halo: Combat Evolved in the United States. The game proved to be very popular, thanks to the multiplayer mode, which, by four of the Xbox’, and to link together, to play with up to sixteen players. Microsoft is celebrating the tenth anniversary of Halo: Combat Evolved by this week’s ‘Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary’ on the market for the Xbox 360. In that game is the same singleplayercampaign to play as in the original, but this version has an online multiplayer mode.
To celebrate Halo’s tenth anniversary comes Microsoft with a ‘Living Monument’