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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 ...
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.
Based on popular demand, Phil Spencer, Microsoft's Head of Xbox, announced that Xbox One consoles would be able to play 13 games made for the original Xbox console, first released in 2001. [21] The compatibility works on all consoles in the Xbox One family, including the Xbox One X , and was made available as a free update in the fall of 2017.
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.
Yes = Exclusive only to the Xbox One console. Xbox = Exclusive to Microsoft's Xbox platforms. Timed = Confirmed as exclusive for a certain period of time, but will become available on other platforms later. No = Available to more than one console of this or the previous console generation.
The article also revealed that representatives of the three largest Xbox 360 resellers in the world (EB Games, GameStop, and Best Buy) claimed that the failure rate of the Xbox 360 was between 30% and 33%, and that Micromart, the largest repair shop in the United Kingdom, stopped repairing Xbox 360s because it was unable to fully repair the ...
Competitions: Join and create tournaments directly through the in-game Xbox Live menu. Xbox Live Aware: Receive invitations and view Xbox Live friends, even when playing single player modes. XSN: Xbox Sports Network, a service for Microsoft-developed sports titles that allows for web-based player tournaments and statistics.
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]