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====__**Definition**__-The Xbox (name derived from "DirectX box") is a video game console produced by Microsoft. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and competed with Sony's PlayStation.====

__**History**__-The console was [|Microsoft]'s first product that ventured into the video game console market, after having collaborated with [|Sega] in porting [|Windows CE] to the [|Dreamcast] console. The Xbox first edition was initially developed by a small Microsoft team that included game developer [|Seamus Blackley]. Microsoft repeatedly delayed the console, which was first mentioned in late 1999 during interviews with then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. Gates stated that a gaming/multimedia device was essential for multimedia convergence in the new times, confirmed by Microsoft with a press release. [|Nvidia] ceased production of the Xbox's GPU in August 2005, which marked the end of Xbox production. The Xbox 360 had superior storage, audio and video capabilities compared to the original Xbox. When equipped with a removable hard drive add-on, the Xbox 360 supports [|a limited number of the Xbox's game library] through emulation.

__**purpose**__-the purpose of the xbox was to give people a new type of gaming system,so they can have fun. Also to give people a new excperience of gaming with better graphics and controls.

__**comparsion of present and past consoles**__-Xboxis a [|sixth-generation] [|video game console] manufacture by microsoft it is also the first console produced by microsoft.

xbox 360 is the second [|video game console] produced by [|Microsoft] and the seventh generationm of gaming.

__**Link**__-[|Wikipedia] [|Google Images]

__**Refernces**__-Wikipedia and Google Images