It might sound a little disingenuous to lop Sony’s current-gen powerhouse in with the likes of an old Microsoft console, but that’s exactly what Xbox 360 was for the better part of a decade.
It shifted superior numbers, offered a more robust online infrastructure and had a public profile the PS3 could only dream of.
In an age where online gaming had finally come into its own on home consoles, where high definition was finally a standard, the 360 brought Microsoft into the eternal console war by building on all the groundwork that had been laid down by its predecessor: the original Xbox one.
Original gangster
Microsoft did pretty well with ‘Xbox the First’, selling around 24 million units by the time it was discontinued in 2005.
It never matched Sony’s PS2 sale for sale, but Microsoft was already looking to the future with its configuration. Xbox Live, in its earliest form, was already running rings around Sony’s effort, while its internal hard drive (a first for consoles of the time) and powerful Nvidia GPU gave it all the chops Xbox needed to run multiplatform and exclusive titles alike with vigor.
When Xbox 360 arrived in November …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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