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The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. As a successor to the original Xbox, it is the second console in the Xbox series. He competed with Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was officially presented on MTV on May 12, 2005, with detailed information about the launch and the game announced later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2005.

The Xbox 360 features an online service, Xbox Live, which expanded from its previous iteration on the original Xbox and received periodic updates over the life of the console. Available in free and subscription varieties, Xbox Live allows users to: play online games; download games (via Xbox Live Arcade) and game demos; buy and stream music, TV shows and movies through the Xbox Music and Xbox Video portals; and access third-party content services through media streaming applications. In addition to online multimedia functions, it allows users to stream media from local PCs. Several peripherals have been released, including wireless controllers, expanded hard disk storage and the camera with Kinect motion sensor. The launch of these additional services and peripherals helped the Xbox brand grow from exclusive games to all kinds of multimedia, making it a center for computer entertainment in the living room.

Launched worldwide between 2005 and 2006, the Xbox 360 was initially in short supply in many regions, including North America and Europe. The first versions of the console suffered a high failure rate, indicated by the so-called "Red Ring of Death", which required an extension of the warranty period of the device. Microsoft launched two redesigned console models: the Xbox 360 S in 2010, [21] and the Xbox 360 E in 2013. [22] As of June 2014, 84 million Xbox 360 consoles had been sold worldwide, which makes it the sixth most sold home video game console in history and the best selling console manufactured by an American company. Although not the best-selling console of its generation, TechRadar considered Xbox 360 the most influential for its emphasis on digital media distribution and multiplayer games on Xbox Live.

Development
Known during development as Xbox Next, Xenon, Xbox 2, Xbox FS or NextBox, [25] the Xbox 360 was conceived in early 2003. [26] In February 2003, planning for the Xenon software platform began, and was headed by Microsoft's Vice President J Allard. [26] That month, Microsoft held an event for 400 developers in Bellevue, Washington to recruit support for the system. [26] Also that month, Peter Moore, former president of Sega of America, joined Microsoft. On August 12, 2003, ATI signed on to produce the graphic processing unit for the new console, a deal which was publicly announced two days later. [27] Before the launch of the Xbox 360, several Alpha development kits were spotted using Apple's Power Mac G5 hardware. This was because the system's PowerPC 970 processor running the same PowerPC architecture that the Xbox 360 would eventually run under IBM's Xenon processor. The cores of the Xenon processor were developed using a slightly modified version of the PlayStation 3's Cell Processor PPE architecture. According to David Shippy and Mickie Phipps, the IBM employees were "hiding" their work from Sony and Toshiba, IBM's partners in developing the Cell Processor. [28] Jeff Minter created the music visualization program Neon which is included with the Xbox 360