Consoles/Versions
This console released in 2013 and featured embedded blu-ray and Kinect features at launch.
What is the Xbox One?
Also known as "Xenon", this three-core CPU was used in tandem with ATI's "Xenos" GPU on Microsoft's Xbox 360 consoles.
What is Microsoft XCPU?
Development for this console began in 2011, seeking an "All in One" approach for home entertainment.
What is the Xbox One?
This company is one of Microsoft's chief rivals in the "Console Wars" and is responsible for the creation of the PlayStation Series.
That is Sony?
This console version was a smaller version than its launch and elite versions, featuring larger hard drive space and being "Kinect ready."
The first Xbox debuted with this 32-bit CPU that clocked at 733MHz. This CPU was released in October 1999 and introduced the first usage of the on-chip Level 2 (L2) cache.
What is Intel Pentium III Coppermine CPU?
The first Xbox console made by Microsoft came out in this year.
What is 2001?
The Xbox 360 sold this many units during its lifetime, seating out Sony's PlayStation 3 by 5 million units.
What is 85 Million?
This console version is the most powerful console created to date, bringing up to 6 teraflops of GPU performance to the table.
What is the Xbox One X?
This memory architecture, introduced in 1996, works on the rising and falling of a systems clock, which in turn doubles the speed of the clock.
Despite being the second console created by Microsoft, they instead decided to use this number to dub their second Xbox console in an effort to be different from their rival PlayStation console.
What is 360?
This console sold 24 million units during its lifetime. It ended up selling at a loss, however, with its rival console selling at 155 million units.
What is the Original Xbox?
This console version released in 2007 which mainly served to permanently fix a hardware failure that occurred in the launch version of this console.
This hardware failure was a result of the poor cooling implemented on the second Xbox console, causing it to overheat.
What is the Red Ring of Death?
This feature was implemented on the Original Xbox, making it the first console to support a broadband ethernet port.
What is Xbox Live?
This console was the best selling Xbox console and solidified Microsoft's role in the Console Wars.
What is the Xbox 360?
This Xbox console, released on August 2, 2016, was a slightly smaller and faster version than its predecessor and introduced 4K Ultra HD video streaming to the Xbox console lineup.
What is Xbox One S?
This console peripheral released in 2010 sold over 35 million units since its release and earned a Guinness World Record for the fastest-selling consumer electronics device.
What is Kinect?
This was the codename used for the development of the Xbox One console in 2011.
What is Xbox 720?
This was one of the features that were not originally included with the initial release of the Xbox One that caused a rocky start to the console's life cycle and was the source of many gripes between Microsoft and its userbase that enjoyed playing their Xbox 360 games.
What is backwards compatibility?