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2000-2009 The 2000s

Home consoles

Microsoft enters the console business with a shooter as its anchor

Microsoft's first console went on sale in North America on November 15, 2001, with a hard drive, an Ethernet port and Halo: Combat Evolved, the game that gave it an identity.

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Microsoft, Bungie
Platform
Home consoles
Region
North America
Period
The 2000s

Why it matters

An American company re-entered console manufacturing for the first time since Atari's collapse, and did so with hardware built around networking rather than around a disc format. The control scheme Halo settled on became the default for console shooters and remains largely unchanged today.

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