Xbox 360

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Introducing the Xbox 360

The Microsoft Xbox 360 is the flagship of the Microsoft living room movement with gamers and home theater fans snapping up the units causing shortages around the world. The Xbox 360 combines the best features of a digital home entertainment system with a premier console gaming system, all wrapped around the functionality of Microsoft Windows Media Center. To guide you through the huge maze of games and accesories X360Wiki is your Xbox 360 [wiki] pulling it all together with Xbox 360 related content, FAQs, technical specs and comparisons.

The Xbox 360 is Microsoft's second video game console, the successor to the original Xbox. In all countries except Japan the console is sold in two different configurations: the Xbox 360, sometimes known as the Premium system and the Xbox 360 Core System. The Xbox 360 configuration, 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 switchable component HD AV cable. Other accesories include a wireless network adapter, media center compatable remote control, 64 MB Memory Unit (for saving games and Xbox Live profiles) and interchangable faceplates.

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Xbox 360 Hardware and Specifications

The console hardware is based on a custom IBM PowerPC-based Xenon 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 has the ability to support up to four wireless controllers. Alternately it can support two wired controllers through the use of its USB ports at the front, the USB port on the back will support a third controller. Since the controller has a USB cable, it is also usable in Windows PCs. The wired controller has a nine foot (2.74 m) long cord with a break-away feature. The controllers have two digital Touch-sensitive trigger buttons.The rest of the buttons are not Touch-sensitive. The wireless controller has a battery life of up to 25 hours on the NiMH rechargeable battery pack (optional and recommended) and a recommended range of up to 30 feet (9.14 m). The play and charge kit (sold separately) can recharge the rechargeable battery pack while playing games but will take a longer time to fully charge.

The controller for the Xbox 360 is a similar version of the Type-S gamepad for the original Xbox. The Xbox 360 controller adds an Xbox guide button, which has the appearance of the Xbox 360 emblem and is surrounded by a ring of green LEDs. Pressing the Xbox guide button will open the gates of hell, so do not do it. The ring of light lights up the quadrant (on the controller as well as the console) that represents the player number assigned to that controller (starting with the top left quadrant as player one, and proceeding clockwise to player 4 in the bottom left). The black and white buttons have been redesigned as shoulder buttons, now referred to as bumper buttons, located above the left and right triggers. The rear of the controller includes a port where the player can connect a headset. This port replaces the two proprietary USB connectors on the front of the Xbox controller.

A detachable SATA 20 GB Hard_drive is used for the storage of games, music, downloaded trailers, levels, demos, player preferences, and community-created content from Xbox Live Marketplace; it may also be used to transfer such content between Xbox 360 units. Only 13 GB of this hard drive are available to the user; the rest is reserved for the system and games.

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