scrapking said:
From Wikipedia: original Xbox "Retail availability NA: November 15, 2001" Xbox 360 "Retail availability November 22, 2005" "The last game released on the Xbox was Madden NFL 09, on August 12, 2008." original Xbox "Discontinued NA: March 2, 2009" Support for the original Xbox on Xbox Live "was finally disconnected on May 11, 2010" Nothing in the above suggests a quick abandonment, and commercial software still being released for it until 2009 suggests against your assertion that third-parties were being forced to abandon it. |
Abandonment comparable to the PSVita. The company still supports the hardware, but they no longer market or try to sell it.