The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and also the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. As of April 19, 2012, 67.2 million Xbox 360 consoles have already sold worldwide. It is truly a top-notch home entertainment and video game system.
Several major top features of the Xbox 360 are its integrated Xbox Live service allowing players to compete online, download arcade games, game demos, trailers, TV shows, music and movies and its Windows Media Center multimedia capabilities. The Xbox Live also offers region specific entry to third-party media streaming application such as Netflix and ESPN in the united states or Sky Go in the UK.
Many accessories are available for the console, including both wired and wireless controllers, faceplates for personalisation, headsets for chatting, a webcam for video chatting, dance mats and Gamercize for exercise.
Games and entertainment come to life with Xbox Live, truly the only unified place for you to play with anyone, anytime, anywhere. Connect your Xbox 360 to your broadband connection and obtain immediate access to Xbox Live Silver.
Kinect is actually a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" for the Xbox 360. It was first announced on June 1, 2009 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, using the codename, Project Natal. The add-on peripheral enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 with out a game controller by utilizing gestures, spoken commands and presented objects and images. Xbox 360 is additionally home to the best and broadest games and also largest on-demand library of music, standard- and high-definition movies, The Kinect accessory works with all Xbox 360 models connecting to new models by way of a custom connector, and also to older ones via a USB and mains power adapter.
You are able to get connected to Xbox Live over the internet through the built-in 100 megabit ethernet connector as well as optional wireless network adapter. The ethernet connector as well as the wireless network adapter which can also be used for connecting the two consoles together directly for LAN play on supported games.
Videos in Windows Media Video (WMV) format (including high-definition and PlaysForSure videos)are supported by Xbox 360, in addition to H.264 and MPEG-4 media., as well as H.264 and MPEG-4 media. The December 2007 dashboard update added support for the playback of MPEG-4 ASP format videos. The console can likewise display pictures and perform slideshows of photo collections with some other transition effects, and supports audio playback, with mp3 music player controls accessible through the Xbox 360 Guide button. Users may play-back their own personal music while playing video games or while using the dashboard, and can play music by having an interactive visual synthesizer.
Music, pics and vids can be played from standard USB mass storage devices, Xbox 360 proprietary storage devices (like memory cards or Xbox 360 hard drives), and servers or computers with Windows Media Center or Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or more covering the local-area network in streaming mode.
Several major top features of the Xbox 360 are its integrated Xbox Live service allowing players to compete online, download arcade games, game demos, trailers, TV shows, music and movies and its Windows Media Center multimedia capabilities. The Xbox Live also offers region specific entry to third-party media streaming application such as Netflix and ESPN in the united states or Sky Go in the UK.
Many accessories are available for the console, including both wired and wireless controllers, faceplates for personalisation, headsets for chatting, a webcam for video chatting, dance mats and Gamercize for exercise.
Games and entertainment come to life with Xbox Live, truly the only unified place for you to play with anyone, anytime, anywhere. Connect your Xbox 360 to your broadband connection and obtain immediate access to Xbox Live Silver.
Kinect is actually a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" for the Xbox 360. It was first announced on June 1, 2009 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, using the codename, Project Natal. The add-on peripheral enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 with out a game controller by utilizing gestures, spoken commands and presented objects and images. Xbox 360 is additionally home to the best and broadest games and also largest on-demand library of music, standard- and high-definition movies, The Kinect accessory works with all Xbox 360 models connecting to new models by way of a custom connector, and also to older ones via a USB and mains power adapter.
You are able to get connected to Xbox Live over the internet through the built-in 100 megabit ethernet connector as well as optional wireless network adapter. The ethernet connector as well as the wireless network adapter which can also be used for connecting the two consoles together directly for LAN play on supported games.
Videos in Windows Media Video (WMV) format (including high-definition and PlaysForSure videos)are supported by Xbox 360, in addition to H.264 and MPEG-4 media., as well as H.264 and MPEG-4 media. The December 2007 dashboard update added support for the playback of MPEG-4 ASP format videos. The console can likewise display pictures and perform slideshows of photo collections with some other transition effects, and supports audio playback, with mp3 music player controls accessible through the Xbox 360 Guide button. Users may play-back their own personal music while playing video games or while using the dashboard, and can play music by having an interactive visual synthesizer.
Music, pics and vids can be played from standard USB mass storage devices, Xbox 360 proprietary storage devices (like memory cards or Xbox 360 hard drives), and servers or computers with Windows Media Center or Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or more covering the local-area network in streaming mode.
