The best gaming console, Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. As of September 30, 2011, 57.6 million consoles have been sold worldwide.
Best Gaming Console
In the era of technology, youngsters are too fascinated and overwhelmed with the recent development of technologies and gadgets. According to Jeiff Meisner of Microsoft, last week Xbox 360 closed the biggest sales week in the history of the hit digital entertainment system. In the week leading to Black Friday, about 960,000 Xbox 360’s got sold and in the week around Black Friday, sales reached more than 800,000 units within 24 hour. Microsoft experts commented that this week perhaps had been the best week ever. All above, their sales did not stop at the Xbox console, over 750,000 Kinect sensors were also sold.
Xbox Update 2011
Microsoft has planned to release a major update to the Xbox Live dashboard, called “Social”, on December 6, 2011. This will essentially replace “My Xbox”. In this regard, Denny Atkin of Microsoft assures that this change will bring in better result, so it is needless to fear about the change. “My Xbox” is being replaced with Xbox Live dashboard with a significant update that will make it easier to view what friends are doing on Xbox life.
This new feature will give you access to the new Beacons feature, which will allow you to tag games that you want to play with other gamers. This will also serve as a social networking platform on Xbox Live. To make this transition smooth, Microsoft will drop you directly onto the new page upon signing into Xbox.com.
While signing in the account, a group of new “Metro” titles will appear at the top of the page, featuring new upcoming new releases, previews, live events. There will also be a column called “Friends” where you will be able to see what your gaming buddies are doing, who’s playing what game, which game has been uploaded by whom, etc.
In addition to all these, there will be another page called “Activity” page, which can not only be used to check off upto three games that you want to play with other gamers, but can also be customized their requests as well. The section of sending and receiving messages has also been updated. So friends can now quickly check each other’s activity through the message section.
Aside from all these, FiOS customers will be also be able to access to several TV channels through the Xbox 360. According to Microsoft, by the end of the year, 40 other TV and entertainment providers will be offering content on Xbox Live.
Conclusion
Thus, in conclusion, the Xbox 360 has been the top and best gaming console in the past ten months and is expected to be forever.
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