Xbox 20th anniversary: Looking back on introduction of gaming console
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Since then, Xbox has released four generations of popular gaming consoles.
This month marks 20 years since Microsoft unveiled the first Xbox.
On Nov. 15, 2001, at an event that included a guest appearance from Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates pulled the wraps off the black and green gaming device. Since then, Xbox has released four generations of popular gaming consoles. Success, however, wasn't always a sure thing.
"They were a boring tech company," IGN Executive Editor Ryan McCaffrey told ABC News. "Games were not something you associated Microsoft with."
"The company took a huge risk," Danny Peña, Games Editorial Lead at G4TV and host of the podcast Gamertag Radio, told ABC News. "They were not a 100% sure if the concept was going to be successful or not."
