Xbox 360 250GB Console

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Nelson, Mike (August 17, 2023). "The Xbox 360 Store Will Close July 2024, But You Can Keep Playing Your Favorite Games". Xbox Wire . Retrieved August 19, 2023.The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. As the successor to the original Xbox, it is the second console in the Xbox series. It competed with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, with detailed launch and game information announced later that month at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). [18] [19] [20] [21] Microsoft released a further update to the Xbox 360 Dashboard starting on December 6, 2011. [153] It included a completely new user interface which utilizes Microsoft's Metro design language and added new features such as cloud storage for game saves and profiles, live television, Bing voice search, [154] access to YouTube videos and better support for Kinect voice commands. [155] Multimedia Axon, Samuel (August 17, 2023). "End of the road: The Xbox 360 game marketplace will shut down". Ars Technica . Retrieved August 19, 2023. The new Xbox 360 is undoubtedly an improvement on previous models, and those new to the console will be very happy with it. Of course it’s too early to comment on the new model’s reliability, but we’re pretty confident that Microsoft would have been far more cautious with its design this time around. In May 2008, Microsoft announced that 10million Xbox 360s had been sold and that it was the "first current generation gaming console" to surpass the 10 million figure in the US. [55] In the US, the Xbox 360 was the leader in current-generation home console sales until June 2008, when it was surpassed by the Wii. [56] [57] [58] By the end of March 2011, Xbox 360 sales in the US had reached 25.4 million units. [42] Between January 2011 and October 2013, the Xbox 360 was the best-selling console in the United States for these 32consecutive months. [59] By the end of 2014, Xbox 360 sales had surpassed sales of the Wii, making the Xbox 360 the best-selling 7th-generation console in the US once again. [60] In Canada, the Xbox 360 has sold a total of 870,000 units as of August 1, 2008. [61]

The Xbox 360 launched with 14 games in North America and 13 in Europe. The console's best-selling game for 2005, Call of Duty 2, sold over a million copies. [131] Five other games sold over a million copies in the console's first year on the market: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, [132] The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, [133] Dead or Alive 4, [134] Saints Row, [135] and Gears of War. [136] Gears of War would become the best-selling game on the console with 3 million copies in 2006, [137] before being surpassed in 2007 by Halo 3 with over 8 million copies. [138] Todd Bishop (August 2, 2013). "Xbox 360 vs. Wii vs. PS3: Who won the console wars?". GeekWire. Archived from the original on April 7, 2017 . Retrieved January 22, 2017. Nathan Brown. "Xbox 360: dead in Japan? – Edge Magazine". Next-gen.biz. Archived from the original on August 24, 2011 . Retrieved August 24, 2011.a b "The 10 Greatest Video Game Consoles of All Time". PC Magazine. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016 . Retrieved May 14, 2019.

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