Sean Souksavath
Mrs. Neugebauer
Freshman Composition
October 7, 2015
History of Xbox Everyone knows what an Xbox is, but do they know about why it exists? Many have been entertained by the presence of the notorious Xbox, but don’t know the origin of it. Some don’t even know that there had been an earlier model before the Xbox 360! How and why does it exist? I’m going to find out the story behind this to show that it has a story in its development of one of the most popular gaming consoles on the world.
What I Want to Find Out
My prior knowledge the Xbox comes down to the name of the different types of consoles’, what the Xbox is and its features are on the newer models, and how it rivals to other companies as an entertainment machine. Xbox
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I’ve had the pleasure of playing and owning an Xbox 360, with its games. I’ve never took it into consideration of the history of this device. I want to see how it did and will still affect gamers around the world because of the continuous development of it. I want to learn about how and why the development of Xbox came into existent, how it evolved, and popular it was. “Why does it exist?” is the main question. “When was the idea of the Xbox created?”, “Who helped develop it?”, “What made it popular?”, and “Will it evolve any further?” are some questions I am starting to ponder …show more content…
This was going to be a big move for Microsoft because they mainly produced software, not hardware. Bill Gates left Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Otto Berkes, and Ted Hase to lead the project into development. The intent of this console was for it to be called the “DirectX Box” and to run like a PC on windows software, but for games. The nickname for it was the “Xbox”, and stuck as the catchy name. With the help of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Bill Gates revealed the final design to the world including the release date on January 2001. On November 14, 2001, the day of release, the Xbox sold over one million units in one month. Microsoft had purchased a company by the name of “Bungie”, in order to make their upcoming game Halo: Combat Evolved an exclusive to Xbox. First priced at $299, it was very successful in sales North America, but not as well in Japan and Europe. Halo was a big hit, and had boosted Xbox console sale because of the popularity of the game with one million copies sold in the first few months of
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Through the years of all the generations consoles Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation both prove to be, arguably, number one. The flames of the console war since the release of the latest generation of consoles back in 2013 have been set ablaze by fans and gamers alike. Microsoft had a weak start with the Xbox One and with nonstop updates and quick releases they crushed their competition. What exactly makes Xbox better?
“You sitting on the couch! Do you even game, bro!? Well if you do come down here to Walmart where we now sell Playstations and Xboxes!” These is what you usually hear from companies on commercials these days and you get excited cause their selling gaming consoles. Now you’re stuck in a conundrum you don’t know which to buy a Playstation or Xbox, so even though they have a few major differences they are also extremely alike.
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Microsoft targets numerous segments of the population of many countries through advertisements of its Xbox. Microsoft, one of the most successful companies in the world, is using its innovations to take over the machine gaming market. Sony and Nintendo have been the gaming powerhouses for many years now, but are now starting to become overshadowed by the success of Microsoft’s Xbox. As long as gaming machines have been available, teenage boys have been the targets of the companies. One new strategy that Microsoft is using is the targeting of all ages and both sexes of consumers. While other companies continue to stay in the young kids and teenage market, Xbox is revolutionizing the target market of gaming systems.
The XBOX is now a 6th generation video game console that is manufactured by Microsoft. The machine itself was released in November of 2001, just in time for the 2001 Holiday Season in the United States, then subsequently worldwide. The decision to manufacture and release the system was Microsoft's first plunge into the gaming console market and designed to compete with the Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo's GameCUbe, and Sega's Dreamcast. By November of 2002, Microsoft launched the Xbox Live service that allowed players to play interactive games online (Gamer's Catch, 2006). Looking at the evolution of the system, however, we now know that the Xbox began to be discontinued in late 2005 (in Japan) and then in early 2007 in North America. The last game was released in August 2007, and even support for out-of-warranty consoles was discontinued in 2009, with all new faulty consoles replaced with Xbox 360. Xbox Live support was discontinued in April 2010 (Whitten, 2010).
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I am going to explain to you why I like to play Xbox. To me playing my Xbox is my favorite thing to do. I can do almost anything I want on it. I can watch movies, play videogames, talk to friends, and even surf the internet. Yes they are somewhat expensive, but I use mine all the time, so I easily get my money’s worth from it.
Microsoft started developing their console after the DirectX, which was a programming unit that was mostly used for creating videos and various types of graphics for computers. Microsoft modified their DirectX and made it into the Xbox. Since Microsoft built the Xbox from a computer it was extremely powerful compared to Sony’s Play Station 2, Nintendo’s Gamecube, and Sega 's Dreamcast ( ). Microsoft was concerned if they would get support from third party developers because it was the first video game console they produced.
With the advancement of new technologies such as high definition(HD) and motion sensors it was only natural that consoles would evolve to incorporate these new breakthroughs. The first seventh generation console to be released was Microsoft’s Xbox 360 on