2014 – 2015retired
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“One year of vacation on Golden Island, then home before the photo album filled.”
“Three red lights, a hundred green memories”
The Xbox 360 was Microsoft's second home console, successor to the original Xbox, unveiled on May 12, 2005 and detailed at E3 that same month. As a seventh-generation machine it went toe-to-toe with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii. Fans loved it for Xbox Live, which let them play online, download arcade games and demos, and stream music, TV and films — plus a growing family of peripherals like wireless contro
After years of regular Xbox Live updates and a lifetime of living rooms well used, the console has been retired rather than killed off. It leaves behind the blueprint for modern console online services and a generation of players who streamed, downloaded, and waved at Kinect. Rest easy, little white and black box — the party was yours.
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“One year of vacation on Golden Island, then home before the photo album filled.”
“The supercomputer for the living room finally took its well-earned nap.”
“It fit a console in your pocket, and for a while, that was enough to change everything.”