The Xbox 360 is Microsoft's second video game
console, the successor to their original Xbox. The Xbox 360 will
compete amongst the upcoming generation of consoles, including the
Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Revolution, and was officially
unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, a week before the E3 trade
show.
In all countries except Japan the console is sold in two different
configurations: the "Xbox 360" and the "Xbox 360 Core System". The
Xbox 360 configuration, often referred to as the "Premium Edition",
includes a hard drive (required for backwards compatibility with
original Xbox games), a wireless controller, a headset, an Ethernet
cable, an Xbox Live silver subscription, and a component HD AV
cable (which can also be used on non-HD TVs).
The console hardware is based on a custom IBM PowerPC-based "Xenon"
central processing unit (CPU) and a custom ATI "Xenos" graphics
processing unit (GPU). It is equipped with 512 MB of RAM and uses
the DVD-ROM storage medium for Xbox 360 game software.
The Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005 in United States,
Canada, and Puerto Rico, December 2 in Europe, December 10 in
Japan, February 2, 2006 in Mexico and Colombia. It will be released
February 24 in South Korea, March 16, 2006 in Hong Kong, Singapore,
and Taiwan (Delayed from original March 2 launch date). Australia
and New Zealand, after being delayed, have been set-back from March
2 to March 23.
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