Xbox History

Xbox is the first product by Microsoft’s into the video game console market, For this wonderfull creation Microsoft did collaboration with Sega
to the Dreamcast console by porting Windows CE.

6-th Generation video game console xbox was produced by Microsoft corporation.

Xbox is giving direct competition to Nintendo GameCube and the Sony’s PlayStation 2.

Xbox was released in 2001 15 Nov in America North, In 2002 22 February in Japan, In 2002 14 March in Europe and simultaneously in Australia.

Xbox is a predecessor to Xbox 360 console.

Firstly Xbox was originally to be named DirectX-box reason behind was the extensive usage of DirectX within the game console’s technology.

Lastly manufacturing department of Microsoft kept the name Xbox “One of the oldest and best gaming console”

Technical specifications :-

Manufacturer - Microsoft

Product family - Xbox

Type - Video game console

Channels - 64 3D sound channels with 256 stereo voices

Enhancement - HRTF Sensaura 3D

Support - MIDI DLS2

Sounds - Dolby Surround, stereo, Dolby Digital Live 5.1, DVD movies, DVD movies playback, DTS Surround with an option of audio output.

Ethernet - Integrated 10-100base - TX wired ethernet

Audio Video - composite video, S-Video, component video, SCART, Optical Digital TOSLINK, and stereo RCA analog audio

Resolution - 1080i, 576i, 480i,- 720p,480p

Controller ports - four proprietary USB port

Weight - In kg 3.86

Dimensions - 320 × 100 × 260 mm /12.5 × 4 × 10.5 inch

CPU - 32-bit 733 MegaHurtz, Micro-PGA2 package. 180 nm process.

GPU and chipset - 233 MHz “NV2A” ASIC Co developed by NVIDIA and Microsof’s.

Filter - Anisotropic texture, trilinear texture, Bilinear texture filtering

Media Storage - 2.6 MB/s to 6.6 MB/s CAV DVD-ROM, 8 or 10 GB, 3.5 in, 5,400 RPM hard disk. File system Fatx.

Online service - Xbox Live

Successor - Xbox 360

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