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Xbox 360 Xbox 360 logo
250 GB slim model and new-style controller
250 GB S model and new-style controller
Developer Microsoft
Manufacturer Flextronics, Wistron, Celestica, Foxconn[1] [2]
Product family Xbox
Type Video game console
Generation Seventh generation
Retail availability
Availability by region[show]

* Original Xbox 360
o NA November 16, 2005
o EU December 2, 2005
o JP December 10, 2005
o CO|MX February 2, 2006
o KR February 24, 2006
o HK|SG|TW March 16, 2006
o AUS March 23, 2006
o CL July 7, 2006
o IN September 25, 2006
o ZA September 29, 2006
o CZ|PL November 3, 2006
o BR December 1, 2006
o RU February 11, 2007
o PE February 25, 2008
o UAE October 28, 2008
o NG|TR 2009
o SC Spring 2010
* Xbox 360 S
o NA June 18, 2010
o AU July 1, 2010
o NZ July 8, 2010
o EU July 16, 2010

Units sold Worldwide: 55 million (as of June 3, 2011 (2011 -06-03)[update])[3](details)
Media

DVD, Compact Disc, Download
Add-on: HD DVD (discontinued)
CPU 3.2 GHz PowerPC Tri-Core Xenon
Storage capacity
Storage mediums[show]

*
o Detachable Hard Drives
20 GB, 60 GB, 120 GB, 250 GB
o Memory Cards (Removable) (Original design only)
64 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB
o On-board storage chip
+ Arcade Consoles (later models)
256 MB, 512 MB
+ Budget level "Xbox 360 S" consoles:
4 GB
o USB storage device (requires system software update)
1 GB to 16 GB

Memory 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM clocked at 700 MHz
Display
Video output formats[show]

*
o Composite video
480i, 576i (PAL)
o S-Video
480i, 576i (PAL)
o RGB SCART
480i, 576i (PAL)
o Component (YPBPR)
480i, 576i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
o D-Terminal (YPBPR)
480i (D1), 480p (D2), 720p (D4), 1080i (D3), 1080p (D5)[4]
o VGA
640×480, 848×480, 1024×768, 1280×720 (720p), 1280×768, 1280×1024, 1360×768, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1080 (1080p)
o HDMI (later models)
480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p

Graphics 500 MHz ATI Xenos
Sound

* Analog stereo
* Stereo LPCM (TOSLINK and HDMI)
* Dolby Digital 5.1 (TOSLINK and HDMI)
* Dolby Digital with WMA pro (TOSLINK and HDMI)

Controller input
Controllers[show]

* 4 maximum* (any combination):
o Xbox 360 Controller (USB wired, 2.4 GHz wireless)
o Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel
o Rhythm game controllers
o Big Button Pads*
o Xbox 360 Arcade sticks
o Ace Combat 6 Flight Stick
o Kinect
*4 Big button pads may be used in addition to other controllers.

Connectivity

Original models
2.4 GHz wireless, 3 × USB 2.0, IR receiver, 100 Mbit Ethernet
Add-on: Wifi 802.11a/b/g, Wifi 802.11a/b/g/n[5]
Revised "S" models
2.4 GHz wireless, 5 × USB 2.0, IR receiver, 100 Mbit[citation needed] Ethernet, Wifi 802.11b/g/n, AUX port
Online services Xbox Live
Best-selling game Call of Duty: Black Ops (12 million)[6]
Backward
compatibility 478 original Xbox games[7] (requires hard drive and the latest update)
Predecessor Xbox

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and 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 March 31, 2011, there are over 53.6 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide.[3]

The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, with detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). The console sold out completely upon release in all regions except in Japan.[8][9][10]

Several major features of the Xbox 360 are its integrated Xbox Live service that allows players to compete online, download arcade games, game demos, trailers, TV shows, music and movies and its Windows Media Center multimedia capabilities. The Xbox 360 also offers region specific access to third-party media streaming services such as Netflix and ESPN in the US or Sky Go in the UK.

At their E3 presentation on June 14, 2010, Microsoft announced a redesigned Xbox 360 that would ship on the same day.[11] The redesigned console is slimmer than the previous Xbox 360 model and features integrated 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, TOSLINK S/PDIF optical audio output, 5 USB 2.0 ports (compared to the 3 from older versions) and a special AUX port.[12] Older models of the Xbox 360 have since been discontinued.[13] The first new console to be released features a 250 GB hard drive, while a later, less expensive SKU features 4 GB internal storage.

With the announcement of the Xbox 360 S, Microsoft have said that they believe that the console is only mid-way through its life-cycle and will continue through 2015.[14][15][16] In 2009, IGN named the Xbox 360 the sixth greatest video game console of all time, out of a field of 25.[17]