the company also makes and promotes a video game console, xbox. it lets people play video games on their televisions. the games were first stored on cds, but many recent games are downloaded from the internet. there have been three generations of xbox. the first generation came out in 2001 and was just called xbox, while the second, the xbox 360, was released in 2005. the third model is the xbox one in may 2013. in 2020, microsoft introduced xbox series x and xbox series s. beginning with the xbox 360, microsoft introduced xbox live, which lets people play games online against other people anywhere in the world. the xbox has become very popular and more than 150 million units have been sold worldwide. because of this, microsoft is considered one of the three big companies that make video game consoles, along with nintendo and sony.