24 Facts About Microsoft Xbox

The third console, the Microsoft Xbox One, was released in November 2013 and has sold 51 million units.

The head of Microsoft Xbox is Phil Spencer, who succeeded former head Marc Whitten in late March 2014.

The Microsoft Xbox has become a direct competitor to Sony's PlayStation brand, both offering high performance gaming systems at roughly similar specifications.

Spencer identified that Microsoft Xbox Azure is a major component of their plans going forward, which powers its xCloud game streaming service.

Spencer cited mobile gaming as a potential area, and where Microsoft Xbox was trying to position itself with its services should this become the more preferred form for gaming.

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Original Microsoft Xbox was released on November 15,2001, in North America, February 22,2002, in Japan, and March 14,2002, in Australia and Europe.

The Microsoft Xbox was the first console offered by an American company after the Atari Jaguar stopped sales in 1996.

The name Xbox was derived from a contraction of DirectX Box, a reference to Microsoft's graphics API, DirectX.

Microsoft Xbox 360 was released as the successor of the original Microsoft Xbox in November 2005, competing with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles.

The Microsoft Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12,2005, with detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Microsoft Xbox One was released on November 22,2013, in North America, as the successor to the Microsoft Xbox 360.

The Microsoft Xbox One competes with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Wii U and Switch as part of the eighth generation of video game consoles.

On June 13,2016, Microsoft announced the Xbox One S at E3 2016, which featured a smaller form factor, as well as support for 4K video and HDR.

At E3 2017, Microsoft unveiled Xbox One X, a high-end model with improved hardware designed to facilitate the playing of games at 4K resolution.

Since November 2014, Microsoft has stated it will not release sales numbers for the Xbox One line.

The Microsoft Xbox Series S is a digital-only unit with less graphic processing power, but can still render at a nominal 1440p resolution at 60 frames per second with support for 4K upscaling.

Microsoft has used the razor and blades model to sell the family of Xbox consoles, selling the console at or below the price of its manufacturing costs, while earning revenue from licensing fees it collects from publishers and developers and from its services offered to players.

In 2019, Microsoft Xbox released a content filtering to stop swearing and toxicity in online gaming.

Main interface for all four generations of Microsoft Xbox has been the Microsoft Xbox Dashboard, which allows users to manage games stored on the console, play media, and access system settings.

In May 2020, Microsoft Xbox presented a preview version of an app that allows parents and guardians to set daily limits for their children's playing time, provides weekly activity reports, filters out age-restricted games, and places limits on online communication.

The standard Microsoft Xbox controller was originally the controller bundled with Microsoft Xbox systems for all territories except Japan.

Microsoft Xbox Adaptive Controller is a special controller designed for accessibility features for players.

Microsoft Xbox released Kinect software development kit for Windows 7 on June 16,2011.

In 2016, Microsoft announced that it would hold its own Xbox FanFest instead of a press conference at the Gamescom annual European video game convention.