
The Xbox was also the first gaming product to feature Dolby Interactive Content-Encoding Technology. This eliminated the need for separate memory cards.

The Xbox was the first console to feature a hard disk drive as a standard issue feature, which was largely used for storing game saves and content downloaded from Xbox Live. The console featured a 32-bit 733 MHz Pentium III-based CPU and 64 MB DDR SDRAM at 200 MHz. The Xbox was launched on Novemin North America Februin Japan and Main Australia and Europe.

The integrated Xbox Live service allowed players to compete online and download additional content for its games.

The original Xbox was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market and competed with the PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, and Nintendo GameCube.
