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October 5, at am. Cj Taylor says:. September 29, at pm. October 2, at am. Ch Adrees says:. Microsoft originally designed the Controller S for Japan, where it tailored the ergonomics for smaller hands. The S model was slimmer and turned out to be more comfortable as a result.
It eventually replaced the Duke internationally in It also set the precedent for the four main face buttons to be spread evenly in a diamond pattern. Microsoft released its second console in North America on November 22, , roughly a year before its PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii competitors.
The Xbox came in two SKUs at launch. Users could purchase and add an optional Xbox hard drive to the console, however. The first batch of Xbox s were white, though you could swap the front face-plate to customize the aesthetics a bit. Over its lifespan, Microsoft's second console drastically outperformed its freshman effort, and sold over 84 million units worldwide. It continued to underperform in Japan, however, with estimates suggesting that it sold roughly 1.
Despite struggling in the land of the rising sun, it remains Microsoft's best-selling system to date. The Xbox moved away from the x86 architecture that the original console used.
Its triple-core, six-thread CPU was codenamed Xenon and was clocked at 3. The used a custom solution codenamed Xenos that was based on the manufacturer's Radeon X graphics card. While the memory was a very costly investment for Microsoft at the time, the company met with studios like Epic Games to see what games like Gears of War would need to properly run.
The console supported DirectX 9 and developers generally saw the Xbox as being easier to program for than the PS3 with its complicated Cell processor.
Multiplatform games on the system tended to look better on the as a result. Via software emulation, the console offered backwards compatibility with roughly half the original Xbox library, though many ports did suffer from glitches of varying severity. The eventually became a popular living room entertainment center. It supported burgeoning streaming services like Netflix and also allowed users to stream media from local PCs on the network.
This update also introduced the ability to install games to mitigate load times. The console received its second major UI update in , when it was modeled after Microsoft's Windows 8 Metro design language. This update added cloud storage for games, Bing voice search, and more.
While the achieved great success for Microsoft, early models were plagued by what gamers would refer to as the Red Ring of Death , highlighted by the fact that a red LED ring would appear on the console to signal an overheating issue. It was such a pervasive problem that it ended up destroying systems.
Users ended up coming up with ridiculous fixes that included baking the console's motherboard in ovens. This pushed Microsoft to spend over a billion dollars to extend the console's warranty by three years.
The Xbox controller offered a marked improvement over the original Duke controller. Slightly smaller than the Xbox's Controller S, it continued to use two offset analog sticks coupled with a D-pad, but dropped two of the original controller's face buttons going from six down to four , but added two bumpers in their place. The middle guide button allowed you to turn on the console, which was an appreciated new feature.
There were both wireless and wired versions of the controller, the latter of which became popular with PC gamers due to its USB connection. The first generation Xbox was actually the sixth generation of consoles, competing with other sixth-generation consoles like the Sega Dreamcast, Sony PlayStation 2, and Nintendo GameCube.
The first generation Xbox sold roughly 24 million consoles which was unfortunately still heavily outsold by its competitor Sony with their PlayStation 2 which sold over million consoles in its lifetime. The PlayStation 2 is also currently still the number 1 best-selling console worldwide source: Wikipedia. The best-selling games for the original Xbox were Halo 2 8. Both franchises became flagship games for future Xbox releases, with Bungie developer of the Halo franchise releasing 5 Halo games to date.
Released in late — early worldwide, a year ahead of the PlayStation 3, the Xbox suffered from not having enough supply to meet the large demand. The PlayStation 3 only slightly outsold the Xbox with The best-selling Xbox game is Kinect Adventures! Later a black Xbox was released which was named the Xbox Elite featuring minor upgrades. The Xbox S Slim is a slimmed-down version of the original Xbox Originally released in , the Xbox S was discontinued just before the release of the newer gen console — The Xbox One S.
Buyers of the Xbox S could also benefit from backward compatibility on a select few games from the original Xbox. Preston Khoury , Contrubitor April 30, Xbox is a very big video game brand by Microsoft and is highly popular all over the world. They have developed a series of gaming consoles that come out for each gaming generation.
Xbox has released three consoles in the sixth, seventh and eighth generations of gaming. The gaming brand also represents games, streaming devices and an online service known as Xbox Live. The Xbox was announced by Microsoft in and was also previewed at E3 of that year. The Xbox was released on November 15, , the birth of the gaming franchise. Over the years, Microsoft has expanded the franchise with more outstanding consoles such as the Xbox in as well as the expansive and glamorous Xbox One in The original Xbox was released on November 15, , in North America and was released in other continents in As being part of the sixth generation of gaming, Xbox was able to make its mark and become popular worldwide.
The Xbox Live service launched in November and allowed players to play online games with or without a broadband connection. Xbox Live was very well known and was used a lot which made Xbox more popular. The console was a massive hit off the bat spreading across the world and it sold everywhere except for Japan. Microsoft also added a Kinect, a motion control system which used an advanced sensor system.
The console was a bit slimmer than the original but featured an optical output, five USB 2. The first ones to be release contained a GB hard drive and a 4GB internal storage. Exactly eight years later on November 22, , Microsoft released the Xbox One which succeeds the Xbox
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