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Seventh Generation : Xbox 360

Manufacturer : Microsoft
Type : Video Game Console
Generation : Seventh Generation
First available : November 22, 2005
System storage : 20 or 120 GB hard drive, 64 or 512 MB memory cards
Controller input : 4 maximum (wired or wireless or combination of either)
Connectivity : 3 × USB 2.0, IR port, 100Mbit Ethernet
Online service : Xbox Live
Units sold : 11.6 million shipped as of July 18, 2007.
Top-selling game : Gears of War
Backward compatibility : 394 original Xbox games
Predecessor : Xbox

The Xbox 360 is a video game console produced by Microsoft, developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI, and SiS. Its Xbox Live service allows players to compete online and download arcade games and content such as game demos, trailers, TV shows, music videos, or rented movies. The Xbox 360 is the successor to the Xbox, and competes with Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii as part of the seventh generation of gaming systems.

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. It is the first console to provide near-simultaneous launch across the three major regions, and to provide wireless controller support at launch. The console sold out completely at release (with the exception of Japan) and as of Q2 2007, shipped 11.6 million units worldwide.

Hardware
The main unit of the Xbox 360 itself has slight concavity on both of its longer sides in matte white or black. It features a port on the top (when vertical, left side when horizontal) to which a custom-housed hard drive unit can be attached in sizes of either 20, or 120 GB. Inside, the Xbox 360 uses the triple-core IBM designed Xenon as its CPU. While graphics processing is handled by the ATI Xenos which has 10 MB of embedded eDRAM, its main memory pool is 512 MB in size.

Games
The Xbox 360 launched with a number of games. The console’s best selling game for 2005, Call of Duty 2, sold over a million copies. Only five other games sold this amount in the console’s first year in the market: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Dead or Alive 4, Saints Row and Gears of War. Gears is also the 360′s currently best selling game with just over 4 million copies sold. First-party developer Rare had two games at launch: Perfect Dark Zero, which was Rare’s first major commercial success after their acquisition by Microsoft; and was believed by some to be the console’s flagship launch title; and Kameo: Elements of Power.

Only six games were initially offered in Japan, and eagerly anticipated titles like Dead or Alive 4 and Enchanted Arms were not released until several weeks after launch. Games more suitable to the region are planned or have since been released, such as Chromehounds, Ninety-Nine Nights, and Phantasy Star Universe. Microsoft-backed Mistwalker has since released Blue Dragon in the region, and currently has two other Japanese-style games in development, Lost Odyssey and Cry On.

On October 19, 2006, over 10,000 pre-orders of a limited-edition Blue Dragon bundle sold out in Japan on the first day. The pack, priced at JP¥29,800 includes the Xbox 360 core system with a copy of Blue Dragon, along with a table calendar, Blue Dragon faceplate, and five miniature character figures. At the Lepzig game convention in 2007, Microsoft revealed details of PGR4, Rock Band, Tom Clancy’s EndWar, Dark Sector, FIFA 08, Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare and Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground.

E3 2006 was the first large-scale show after the console’s launch and the first trailer for Halo 3, the sequel to the original Xbox’s best selling game, was shown there. Fable 2, a sequel to the Xbox’s best-selling RPG, was also shown, along with Alan Wake, Mass Effect and Too Human.

Bill Gates spoke of plans to integrate several Microsoft services into one entity with Live Anywhere. This service will allow multiplayer games and communication possible between Xbox 360 and the Windows Vista operating system for the PC. Shadowrun was the first game announced to be compatible with Live Anywhere. Several games originally released on PC have also been released on the Xbox 360, such as F.E.A.R. and Quake 4.

Grand Theft Auto IV was shown and will be the first title in the series to be released for the Xbox 360 the same day as its PlayStation 3 counterpart. At X06, Microsoft announced new titles, along with information on future releases. Splinter Cell: Conviction, set to release after Splinter Cell: Double Agent, was announced to be exclusive to the Xbox 360, as were Bioshock and Banjo-Kazooie 3.

At the event, Halo Wars was also announced, along with an untitled Halo project. Microsoft is publishing sequels to some of its more successful franchises on the original Xbox, such as Forza Motorsport 2, Project Gotham Racing 3 & 4, and Fuzion Frenzy 2. In addition to sequels, they have published original games based on new IPs such as Viva Piñata and Gears of War.

Source : http://www.gametrailers.com/

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