Xbox 360
- Manufacturer
- Microsoft
- Production
- 2005–2016
- Generation
- Gen 7
- Type
- Home
- Launch price
- $399
- Media
- Disc
- Units sold
- 84.0M
About Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft, being the successor to the original Xbox and the second console in the Xbox series. It was officially unveiled in the program titled Xbox: The Next Generation Revealed on May 12, 2005, with detailed launch and game information announced later that month at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). As a seventh-generation console, it primarily competed with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii.
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Library & collector facts
2,155licensed games
- North America: 2,073
- Japan: 395
- PAL: 1,700
Lineage
Release timeline
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- December 10, 2005
- 🇺🇸 North America
- September 15, 2005
- 🇪🇺 Europe / PAL
- December 2, 2005
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- September 15, 2005
- Lifespan
- 11 years on market
Pricing
Launch price (2005)
- 🇺🇸 USD
- $399
- 🇬🇧 GBP
- £279
Controller
Xbox 360 Controller (USB wired / 2.4 GHz wireless)
Launch titles & exclusives
Call of Duty 2 · Perfect Dark Zero · Project Gotham Racing 3 · Kameo: Elements of Power · Condemned: Criminal Origins · Dead or Alive 4 · Madden NFL 06 · NBA 2K6 · Tony Hawk's American Wasteland · Ridge Racer 6 · Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
None on Core SKU; Premium SKU included 20GB HDD + wired controller
Halo 3 · Gears of War trilogy · Forza Motorsport series · Fable II / III · Lost Odyssey · Blue Dragon · Alan Wake (original release) · Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts · Crackdown
Just Dance 2019 (2018) was among the last major releases
Limited-edition consoles (Halo 4 Edition, Gears 3 Red, Star Wars R2-D2/C-3PO, Mass Effect 3 N7); NCAA Football 14 sealed (~$200–$400)
Variants of Xbox 360
Hardware specs
- Os
- Xbox 360 system software
- Cpu
- 3.2 GHz PowerPC Tri-Core Xenon
- Gpu
- 500 MHz ATI/AMD Xenos, 240 GFLOPS
- Ram
- 512 Megabyte, MB of unified GDDR3 RAM clocked at 700 MHz, 10 MB of eDRAM cache on Xenos (graphics chip), Xenos GPU
- Sound
- Analog stereo, Stereo LPCM (TOSLINK and HDMI), Dolby Digital 5.1 (TOSLINK and HDMI), Dolby Digital with WMA pro (TOSLINK and HDMI)
- Weight
- 3.5 kg
- Dimensions
- 309 × 83 × 258 mm
- Display Output
- Composite video, 480i, PAL, 576i (PAL), S-Video, 480i, 576i (PAL), RGB SCART, 480i, 576i (PAL), Component video, Component (YPbPr, YP B P R ), 480i, 576i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, D-Terminal (YP B P R ), 480i (D1), 480p (D2), 720p (D4), 1080i (D3), 1080p (D5), VGA connector, VGA, 640×480, Wide VGA, 848×48…
- Storage Internal
- Hard disk drive, Detachable hard drives, 20, 60, 120 or 250 GB (older models); 250, 320, or 500 GB (Xbox 360 S models), Flash memory (later models), 256 MB, 512 MB, Budget level "Xbox 360 S" consoles:, 4 GB, External USB storage device (requires system software update), 1 GB to 2 TB, Cloud storage (…
Hardware revisions
- Xenon 'Phat' (Falcon, Zephyr)(2005)
original launch hardware
⚠ Red Ring of Death (RRoD) from solder cracks under thermal stress — ~30–55% lifetime failure rate by some estimates
- Jasper (Falcon revision)(2008)
smaller 65nm CPU/GPU, lower thermal load, RRoD rate falls sharply
- Slim 'Trinity'/'Corona' (S model)(2010)
45nm SoC, built-in WiFi, RRoD virtually eliminated, touch-sensitive power and eject
- E model(2013)
final cosmetic redesign matching Xbox One styling, no internal changes
Launch colorways & special editions
- Halo 3 Spartan Edition (2007)
- Halo Reach Edition (2010)
- Resident Evil 5 Red Edition (2009)
- Gears of War 3 Limited Red (2011)
- Star Wars R2-D2/C-3PO White-Gold (2012)
- Modern Warfare 2 Bundle (2009)
- Tomb Raider Edition (2013)
- Mass Effect 3 N7 Slim (2012)
Modding scene
- Difficulty
- hard-mod
- Custom firmware
- RGH (Reset Glitch Hack) 3.0; JTAG (older, only pre-2009 dashboards); Aurora dashboard for homebrew
Reception & legacy
Strong launch despite limited stock; praised for Xbox Live integration and Achievements; criticized for Core SKU lacking HDD
RRoD epidemic cost Microsoft $1.15B in extended warranties (2007); Core-vs-Premium SKU confusion at launch; banhammer waves against modded consoles and pirated content
Established Xbox Live and modern online console gaming standards (Achievements, party chat, digital marketplace) that every platform later adopted
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