Home Xbox Store Bargain Xbox Games Bargain Xbox Consoles Autoupdate Xbox Cheat code eBook Xbox News Xbox Tutorials Xbox Videos Xbox Articles - Xbox (1 & 360) - Xbox 360 Game System - Features Of The Xbox 360 - Comparing The Playstation 3, Xbox 360, And Nintendo Wii  - A Shopping Comparison: Xbox 360 and Playstation  - Want To Get More Thrill For Your Buck? Find Out More About The Best Deals For Cheap Xbox Games - Free Xbox 360 - Scam or not?? - Xbox Mod Chip - Turn Your Old Xbox Into A Complete Media Center - Xbox 360 Mods - Which One Should YOU Buy? - Xbox 360 Racing Games - Copying Xbox Games - How to get the Skeleton Key in Oblivion for Xbox 360 - Fix Your Xbox 360 - Xbox 360 Repair - Could We See A Xbox 360 Portable? - Xbox 360 Red Lights - Playing Xbox Games In Mac OS X Using Xbox Emulator Software        Site Map   Xbox (1 & 360)     What is the Xbox? It is a sixth generation era console used for video game playing made by Microsoft Corporation. It directly competes with Sony's PlayStation 2, and in an indirect way with the Nintendo GameCube. It was launched on November 15, 2001 in America and in 2002 in Europe, Japan and Australia. The Xbox is the antecedent to Microsoft's Xbox 360 console. Basically it is used mostly for gamming. What can you play on it? Noteworthy launch names for the console are : Combat Evolved, Dead or Alive 3, Project Gotham Racing, and Munch's Oddysee.Contents Xbox is the first console to add in a hard disk for storing saved games in compresses ZIPs and also different content from Xbox live. Thanks to it you didnt needed anymore separate memory cards. Most games used the hard drive also as a disk cache, to faster load the game. And no more soundless gamming thanks to Xbox. "Custom soundtracks," is another particularly characteristic permitted by the hard drive. If you are an Xbox possessor you can rip melodies from normal audio CDs into it. This mean you can play your custom soundtrack on your Xbox games that permit such a thing. The unique game controller plan, which was mostly large, was often criticized since it wasnt fitted for those that had small hands. It was also said that it caused some cramping of the hands of the users. But what does that mean to a gamer, no? But lets not be so permissive, shall we? Comfort is important so due to these criticisms, they introduced a smaller controller. And this really made our lives easier. In August 2005, NVIDIA released the Xbox 360 after stopping the production of the old model. This new model was equipped with a detachable hard drive add-on and supported a limited division of the Xbox's records using emulation. Of course they are periodically updated especially to add compatibility for those older games you just love. Thanks to all those new gadgets and technological inventions we, the gamers, are saved from boredom and playing the same games over and over again. And most important we can always replay or favorite one, though it was launched 5 years ago. By Rea Maor Visit the source at: http://www.AskReaMaor.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rea_Maor