Xbox
The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001, in North America, February 22, 2002, in Japan, and March 14, 2002, in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market. As part of the sixth-generation of gaming, the Xbox competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast (which stopped American sales before the Xbox went on sale), and Nintendo's GameCube. The Xbox was the first console offered by an American company after the Atari Jaguar stopped sales in 1996. The name Xbox was derived from a contraction of "DirectX Box", a reference to Microsoft's graphics API, DirectX.
Xbox (console)
By 2005, despite notable first party releases in "" and "Forza Motorsport", Microsoft began phasing out the Xbox in favor of their next console, the Xbox 360. Games such as "" and "Perfect Dark Zero", which were originally to be developed for the Xbox, became Xbox 360 launch titles instead. The last game released on the Xbox was "Madden NFL 09", on August 12, 2008.