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The Xbox is a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft that is the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles.It was released as Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market on November 15, 2001, in North America, followed by Australia, Europe and Japan in 2002. [3]
The top of the Xbox, disassembled. It uses a standard DVD-ROM and Hard-disk drive via Parallel ATA. Storage media 2×–5× (2.6 MB/s–6.6 MB/s) CAV DVD-ROM 8 or 10 GB, 3.5 in, 5,400 RPM hard disk formatted to 8 GB with FATX file system
Across all four generations of the Xbox platform, the user interface of the system software has been called the Xbox Dashboard. While its appearance and detailed functions have varied between console generations, the Dashboard has provided the user the means to start a game from the optical media loaded into the console or off the console's storage, launch audio and video players to play ...
World, meet the Xbox One. Microsoft unveiled Xbox One, an all-in-one console that's fashionably late to the next-gen brawl, promising to turn us into couch potatoes. We'll fill you in on ...
The Xbox One S features a smaller casing and other design changes over the original Xbox One model. The original Xbox One's exterior casing consists of a two-tone "liquid black" finish; with half finished in a matte grey, and the other in a glossier black. The matte side of the top of the console consists of a large air vent.
The Xbox 360 was released as the successor of the original Xbox in November 2005, competing with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It featured a custom triple-core 64-bit PowerPC-based processor design by IBM with 512 MB of RAM memory.
Insignia is a non-commercial server hosting project currently in open beta that aims to restore the functionality of Xbox Live for the original Xbox. [3] [4] It provides a free service created via closed-source reverse engineering of the original Live server software, hosted on Insignia's own servers, and its aim is to support every title that had Xbox Live support.
The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are the fourth generation of consoles in the Xbox series.Released on November 10, 2020, the higher-end Xbox Series X and lower-end Xbox Series S are part of the ninth generation of video game consoles, which also includes Sony's PlayStation 5, released the same month. [4]