Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 (English: Xbox 360) is the second video game console manufactured by Microsoft that is the successor to the Xbox. It competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's V, a seventh-generation video game console. As of January 9, 2012, Xbox 360 has sold 60 million.

History

Development

It developed during the time of Xbox Next, Xenon and Xbox 2. In February 2003, it was planned to be launched with Xenon software. Which was done by Microsoft Vice President Jay Allard under the direction. It was built by 400 developers.

Display

It was launched in the market on 22 November 2005. It was then screened in the US and Canada only. It was removed on 2 December 2005 in Europe and 10 December 2005 in Japan. It was then moved to Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and Russia. It landed in 36 countries the first year.

The hardware

Technical details

Separate drives have been made, including 20, 60, 150, 250 and 320 GB of memory. It uses the triple-core IBM-built Xenon as the CPU. One of its cores can solve 2 problems and a total of 3 cores together can solve 6 problems at a time. It uses ATI Genos for graphics. Which has an EDRAM of 10 MB. Its main memory is 512 MB.

Other stuff

To play in it a controller (with or without wire) is also found. A headset for talking and a webcam for chatting with each other is also provided. Apart from this, five different size drives are provided in it. 20, 60, 120, 250 GB (for Japan only).

Technical problem

When the Xbox 360 was introduced to the market in 2005. Then, in some places, the problem of not doing it properly started appearing.

Due to this type of trouble, Microsoft extended the warranty of Xbox 360 to 3 years. The first version of the Xbox 360 S was showing this error. This error is displayed under the name General Hardware Failure General Hardware Failure. But this error is more commonly known as Red Ring of Death. Subsequently, in April 2009, its warranty was further extended. Because there was another error with the name E74. But this warranty is not given for any errors other than this.

After suffering so much trouble, Microsoft made another kind of change for it. This then gave room for heat-dispersion. Apart from this, its edge was also bended. After this change, the Xbox 360 S was brought into the market. This and any subsequent versions did not offer a 3-year warranty. To protect it from overheating, a red light was used in a button that let the user know when to let it cool down when it was overheating.

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