Microsoft Xbox - 2001

One of the most widely anticipated game console products, the U.S. version of PlayStation 2 will offer faster game playing speeds, better picture quality and added features DVD movie playback. PS2 contains an expansion bay roomy enough to house a 3.5-inch hard drive as well as a network adapter for Internet access. Despite critical shortages in manufacturing parts, Sony said it still expects to ship 3 million units in North America before March 2001.

Microsoft arent ment to have gained any profits from this console, it was a success and did feature many amazing games such as ' halo ' - these were only for the xbox. Although it did lag behind the ps2.