19 Facts About Xbox

Xbox is a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft.

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

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

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

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

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The 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.

Xbox 360 was released as the successor of the original 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 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.

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

The 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.

The 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.

Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming is the Microsoft's Xbox cloud gaming streaming service.

Xbox Game Pass is a subscription service from Microsoft for use with its Xbox One and Windows 10.

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

In May 2020, 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 Xbox controller was originally the controller bundled with Xbox systems for all territories except Japan.

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