The origanal X-box console selled very well when first coming out into stores. It was the first system to have the feature of a D.V.D player in it. It also had very good graphics almost as good as PS2. PS2 got the idea of a D.V.D player from the Microsofts system. It has most of same games as the PS2 including most M rated games. One game it has that the PS2 doesn't have is the best selling action game of decade Halo. It's sequal also was for X-box was voted best action game of year it tied with Resident Evil 4.
At first it wasn't even possible to get Xbox live but after a year of waiting the people at Mircosoft finally created Xbox live an online community where people could play against eachother a create freindships with the online headset.