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Each new console introduced new technologies. The Xbox 360 offered games rendered natively at high-definition video (HD) resolutions, the PlayStation 3 offered HD movie playback via a built-in 3D Blu-ray Disc player, and the Wii focused on integrating controllers with movement sensors as well as joysticks. [1]
Xbox 360: Home Microsoft: 2005 > 84 million [note 3] Game Boy Advance: Handheld Nintendo: 2001 81.51 million [20] PlayStation Portable: Handheld Sony: 2004 80 million [1] Nintendo 3DS: Handheld Nintendo: 2011 75.94 million [20] PlayStation 5 # Home Sony: 2020 74.9 million [33] Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System: Home Nintendo: 1983 ...
In September 2009, IGN named PlayStation 3 the 15th-best gaming console of all time, behind both of its competitors: Wii (10th) and Xbox 360 (6th). [256] However, PS3 has won IGN's "Console Showdown"—based on which console offers the best selection of games released during each year—in three of the four years since it began (2008, 2009 and ...
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Updated visuals and features. [445] [446] Resonance of Fate: 2010 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Resonance of Fate 4K/HD Edition: 2018 PlayStation 4, Windows Updated visuals. [447] Rez: 2001 Dreamcast, PlayStation 2: Rez HD: 2008 Xbox 360: Updated aspect ratio and ...
The Xbox 360 also suffered from the "Red Ring of Death", a hardware fault on a large fraction of retail models that cost Microsoft over $1.1 billion in repairs over the console's lifetime. [ 52 ] Both consoles were challenged by Nintendo's Wii and specifically its novel Wiimote motion-sensing device.
The "Xbox 360 Core" was replaced by the "Xbox 360 Arcade" in October 2007 [109] and a 60 GB version of the Xbox 360 Pro was released on August 1, 2008. The Pro package was discontinued and marked down to US$249 on August 28, 2009, to be sold until stock ran out, while the Elite was also marked down in price to US$299.
Half-Life 2 (PC, Xbox) by Valve was praised for its advanced physics, animation, sound, AI, graphics, gameplay, and narrative, and was named Game of the Decade at the Spike Video Game Awards. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox, PC) by Bungie and Microsoft Studios was by far the most successful launch title for the Xbox.
The Xbox 360 technical specifications describe the various components of the Xbox 360 video game console.. The console features a port on the top when vertical (left side when horizontal) to which a custom-housed hard disk drive unit can be attached in sizes of either 20, 60, 120, 250, 320, 500 GB; [1] and as of April 2015 all 2.5" SATA Hard Drives up to 2 TB, [2] [3] the user can use the ...