The Xbox is a video gaming console brought to life by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001, in The united states, and then Australia and Europe in 2002.It absolutely was Microsoft's first foray into the the game console . market. As a sixth-generation console, it competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast, plus the Nintendo GameCube.
It featured Xbox Live, a fee-based online gaming service that enabled subscribers to download new content and meet up with other players by using a broadband connection.Unlike other online services from Sega and Sony, Xbox Live had support within the original console design through an integrated Ethernet port. Xbox's successor, the Xbox 360, was launched in November 2005.
Xbox 360
The Xbox is a video gaming console manufactured by Microsoft, and is the successor towards the original Xbox, and it is the next console from the Xbox series. The Xbox 360 system competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii included in the seventh generation of gaming consoles. The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, with detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)
The Xbox 360 elite features a web service, Xbox Live, which has been expanded looking at the previous iteration on the original Xbox and received regular updates over the console's lifetime. Accessible in free and subscription-based varieties, Xbox Live allows users to: play games online; download games (through Xbox Live Arcade) and game demos; purchase and stream music, television programs, and films with the Xbox Music and Xbox Video portals; and access third-party content services through media streaming applications. Together with online multimedia features, the Xbox 360 system allows users to stream media from local PCs. Several peripherals are already released, including wireless controllers, expanded hard drive storage, plus the Kinect motion sensing camera. The production of the additional services and peripherals helped the Xbox brand grow from gaming-merely to encompassing all multimedia, turning it into a hub for living-room computing entertainment.
