ade to promote special edition consoles, for example Halo3 edition and the Simpsons Movie edition. Other features of the Xbox 360 include the Xbox Live feature allowing users to play the console over a network connection, playing against other opponents all over the world. Like other online services, there is a membership to this service which entitles you many other features depending on the type of membership you apply for, the silver account or the gold accounts. Since the introduction of the Xbox it has had its ups and downs. Microsoft has actually extended warranty on some consoles to help warranty some flaws that were introduced in earlier versions of the system. A year after the console was released, it was joined by its two biggest rivals the Playstation 3 and the Nintendo’s Wii. Despite the competition the Xbox is facing, it has still sold more consoles world-wide than any other gaming system estimating over 13.4 million consoles as of October 1, 2007.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Weekly Analysis 2: Xbox 360
In November of 2005, Microsoft introduced a new gaming system that would launch the beginning of what would be the seventh-generation of gaming systems. The system was introduced with great speed, processing at 3.2 GHz Tri-Core Xenon processor and a 500 MHz ATI Xenos graphical processing unit. The system is capable of paying DVD (sing and dual layer), CD’s and HD DVDs. The system can be purchased with either a 20GB or 120 GB HD, and either a 64MB, 256 MB, or 512MB memory card. This system was also the first to introduce wireless control capabilities with the maximum of 4 controllers, either wired or wireless connected. The system was initially referred to as Xbox 2, but later changed to Xbox 360, and is one of the first systems to also allow backward compatibility to almost 400 original Xbox games. When the system was first introduced it only had two versions, the 360 package and the 360 core editions. Since then, changes have been made releasing the new 360 Arcade edition, the 360 premium or 360 pro edition, and the 360 elite edition, which includes the most amount of features and retailed at $449.99. Also, special designs have been m
ade to promote special edition consoles, for example Halo3 edition and the Simpsons Movie edition. Other features of the Xbox 360 include the Xbox Live feature allowing users to play the console over a network connection, playing against other opponents all over the world. Like other online services, there is a membership to this service which entitles you many other features depending on the type of membership you apply for, the silver account or the gold accounts. Since the introduction of the Xbox it has had its ups and downs. Microsoft has actually extended warranty on some consoles to help warranty some flaws that were introduced in earlier versions of the system. A year after the console was released, it was joined by its two biggest rivals the Playstation 3 and the Nintendo’s Wii. Despite the competition the Xbox is facing, it has still sold more consoles world-wide than any other gaming system estimating over 13.4 million consoles as of October 1, 2007.
ade to promote special edition consoles, for example Halo3 edition and the Simpsons Movie edition. Other features of the Xbox 360 include the Xbox Live feature allowing users to play the console over a network connection, playing against other opponents all over the world. Like other online services, there is a membership to this service which entitles you many other features depending on the type of membership you apply for, the silver account or the gold accounts. Since the introduction of the Xbox it has had its ups and downs. Microsoft has actually extended warranty on some consoles to help warranty some flaws that were introduced in earlier versions of the system. A year after the console was released, it was joined by its two biggest rivals the Playstation 3 and the Nintendo’s Wii. Despite the competition the Xbox is facing, it has still sold more consoles world-wide than any other gaming system estimating over 13.4 million consoles as of October 1, 2007.
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