Microsoft delivers the first Xbox gaming console in the United States in 2001.
The Xbox is a home video game console that was the first in Microsoft's Xbox series of video game consoles. It was released on November 15, 2001, as Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market in North America, followed by Australia, Europe, and Japan in 2002.
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