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Transcript: The original Xbox was released on November 15 2001, It was Microsoft's first gaming console on the market. Microsoft's Xbox was one of few console that could play 128-bit games, DVDs and CDs, aswell as connect to Xbox LIVE in 2002. It was a sixth generation consol with an 8 or 10 GB internal Hard Drive. The oparating system is based on Windows NT. Custom 733 MHz Intel Pentium III Coppermine-based processor. The Xbox competed with other systems like Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast, and Nintendo's GameCube. Its most successful launch game was Halo: Combat Evolved. Its sequel, Halo 2, is the best-selling Xbox game worldwide. Although there were several more popular launch titles, including NFL Fever 2002, Project Gotham Racing, and Dead or Alive 3. Production of the Xbox was dicontinued in 2007, 2 years after the unveil of the all new Xbox 360. It sold more than 50 million units world-wide by 2006. In 2002 the Independent Television Commission (ITC) banned a television advertisement for the Xbox in the United Kingdom after complaints that it was highly distasteful, violent, scary and upsetting. Xbox LIVE: Xbox live was open to players on November 15, 2002. It alowed gamers to play online with other people around the world and download content strait the their harddrive. Halo is a multi-billion dollar video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Game Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and an alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. Fueled by the success of Halo: Combat Evolved, and immense marketing campaigns from publisher Microsoft, its sequels went on to break various sales records. Halo 3 sold more than $170 million worth of copies in the first 24 hours of release, breaking the record set by Halo 2 three years prior. Halo: Reach, in turn, broke the record set by Halo 3, selling $200 million worth of copies on it's first day of release. The 6 games have sold over 65 million copies worldwide. Original trilogy: Halo Combat Evolved, Halo 2, and Halo 3 Spin-offs: Halo Wars, Halo ODST, and Halo: Reach Reclaimer trilogy: At E3 2011, Microsoft announced Halo 4, as the first entry in a new series of Halo games dubbed the Reclaimer Trilogy. Xbox 360: The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. The Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005, in the United States and Canada; December 2, 2005, in Europe and December 10, 2005, in Japan. In its first year on the market, the system launched in 36 countries, more countries than any other console has launched in a single year. The console's best-selling game for 2005, Call of Duty 2, sold over a million copies. 5 other games sold over a million copies in the console's first year on the market: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Dead or Alive 4, Saints Row, and Gears of War. Gears of War would become the best-selling game on the console with 3 million copies in 2006, before being surpassed in 2007 by Halo 3 with over 8 million copies. Kinect Halo 2 (8 million)[16] Halo: Combat Evolved (5 million)[17] Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (3 million: 2.4 million in US,[18] 600,000 in Europe,[19] 5,449 in Japan)[20] Fable (3 million,[21] may include PC version) Project Gotham Racing (2.5 million)[22] Grand Theft Auto Double Pack (1.7 million: 1.59 million in US,[23] 100,000 in UK,[24] 10,515 in Japan)[20] Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (1.58 million: 1.48 million in US,[23] 100,000 in UK)[24] Counter-Strike (1.5 million)[25][26] Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (1.46 million: 1.26 million in US,[23] 200,000 in UK)[27] Need for Speed: Underground 2 (1.44 million: 1.24 million in US,[23] 200,000 in UK)[27] Madden NFL 2005 (1.42 million in US)[23] Madden NFL 06 (1.41 million in US)[23] Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (1.39 million in US)[23] ESPN NFL 2K5 (1.38 million in US)[23] The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (1.36 million in US)[23] Dead or Alive 3 (1.28 million: 1.06 million in US,[23] 217,149 in Japan)[20] Star Wars: Battlefront (1.22 million: 1.12 million in US,[23] 100,000 in UK)[24] Star Wars: Battlefront II (1.13 million: 1.03 million in US,[23] 100,000 in UK)[24] Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (1.13 million: 1.12 million in US,[23] 7,643 in Japan)[20] Need for Speed: Underground (1.1 million: 1.02 million in US,[23] 100,000 in UK) Kinect Adventures (18 million as pack-in game for Kinect)[28] [29] Call of Duty: Black Ops (12 million)[30] Halo 3 (8.1 million)[31] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (7.481 million approximately; 6.471 million in US,[32][33][34][35] 87,374 in Japan,[36][verification needed] at least 1 million in UK)[37] Gears of War (5 million,[38] may include PC version) Gears of War 2 (5 million)[39] Halo: Reach (5 million worldwide)[40] Grand Theft Auto IV (4.356 million
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