Xbox360, Successor of Microsoft Xbox
Xbox is a series of video gaming console powered by Microsoft Corporation, who mostly known with providing computer services and software. Microsoft Xbox was introduced on November 15, 2001 in the United States, with its gaming console and internet facilities. Microsoft was taking an active participation in Xbox manufacturing while if you could just define it as simple, it has history to reach at that level of such fame. Xbox as console was first offered by American company and it has been reached over 24 million record units sold as of May 10, 2006 and when Microsoft’s second console came into market, it was just a leap that Microsoft had been take in gaming world with Xbox 360, which was released in 2005 and has sold over 77.2 million consoles worldwide as 2013 then there was no comparative was ever stand against the charm and craze about video gaming.
worldwide Release:
Xbox is well known Microsoft gaming console while Xbox360 was its successor platform which was announced in 21 may, 2003 by Microsoft. That not all the area which they have but also several games application, streaming, services and online services are related with Xbox, but very famous mostly which discussed about is Xbox live. Xbox was first released date November 15 , 2001 in north America and February 2002 in Japan and in 14 march 2002 in europ and consecutively Xbox was discontinued its production in 2007 from Japan , 2008 north America and from 2009 to Europe from major countries of the world . Xbox360 was released in November 22,2005 in North America , December 2005 in Europe , in December 10 to Japan while in march 2006 it was released in Australia . Xbox360 has 77.2 million consoles has been sold around till in April 2003 before it next version came.
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Units sold: 77.2 million (as of April 18, 2013)
Best-selling game:Kinect Adventures (pack-in with Kinect peripheral),24 million[32]
Best selling non-bundled game: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, 14.23 million[33]
Media: CD, DVD, HD DVD (movies only) with add-on drive
Accessories:Xbox Live Starter Kit
Xbox Media Center Extender
DVD Playback Kit
Xbox Music Mixer
Memory Unit (8 MB)
Logitech Wireless Controller (2.4 GHz)
CPU: 3.2 GHz IBM PowerPC tri-core CPU codenamed “Xenon”
GPU : 500 MHz ATi custom Radeon X1800 DirectX 9.0c based GPU codenamed “Xenos”
Memory :512 MB of GDDR3 RAM @ 700 MHz 22.4 GB/s, 10 MB EDRAM GPU frame buffer memory”
Video I/O: HDMI (on models manufactured after August 2007),
VGA, Component/D-Terminal (YPbPr),SCART, S-Video, Composite
1080p, 1080i, 720p, 576p, 576i, 480p, 480i
Various monitor resolutions available via VGA and
HDMI/DVI (640×480, 848×480, 1024×768, 1280×720, 1280×768,
1280×1024, 1360×768, 1440×900, 1680×1050 & 1920×1080)
Audio I/O : HDMI, Optical Toslink, Stereo RCA
DTS (movies only), WMA Pro, Dolby Digital,Dolby Surround, Stereo
Online service Xbox Live:Xbox Live Arcade
Xbox Live Marketplace
Xbox Live Vision (webcam), headset
Xbox Live Video Marketplace
Windows Live Messenger
Internet Explorer (Xbox Live Gold required)
VideoKinect (Kinect sensor is no longer needed)
