<P> The Xbox's successor, the Xbox 360, was officially unveiled announced on May 12, 2005 on MTV . It was the first next generation system to be announced . It was released in North America on November 22, 2005 . Nvidia ceased production of the Xbox's GPU in August 2005, which marked the end of brand - new Xbox production . The last Xbox game in Europe was Xiaolin Showdown released in June 2007, and the last game in North America was Madden NFL 09 released in August 2008 . Support for out - of - warranty Xbox consoles was discontinued on March 2, 2009 . Support for Xbox Live on the console ended on April 15, 2010 . </P> <P> The Xbox 360 supports a limited number of the Xbox's game library if the player has an official Xbox 360 Hard Drive . Xbox games were added up until November 2007 . Xbox game saves cannot be transferred to Xbox 360, and the ability to play Xbox games through Xbox LIVE has been discontinued since April 15, 2010 . It is still possible to play Xbox games with System Link functionality online via both the original console and the Xbox 360 with tunneling software such as XLink Kai . It was announced at E3 2017 that the Xbox One would be gaining support for a limited number of the Xbox's game library . </P> <P> The Xbox was the first video game console to feature a built - in hard disk drive, used primarily for storing game saves and content downloaded from Xbox Live . This eliminated the need for separate memory cards (although some older consoles, such as the Amiga CD32, used internal flash memory, and others, like the TurboGrafx - CD, Sega CD, and Sega Saturn, had featured built - in battery backup memory prior to 2001). An Xbox user could rip music from standard audio CDs to the hard drive, and these songs were used for the custom soundtracks in some games . </P> <P> The Xbox was the first gaming product to feature Dolby Interactive Content - Encoding Technology, which allows real - time Dolby Digital encoding in game consoles . Previous game consoles could only use Dolby Digital 5.1 during non-interactive "cut scene" playback . </P>

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