Microsoft is predicting that with the Xbox 360, a greater market share, yearly revenue through their Xbox Live service, and falling hardware costs will eventually make system sales profitable.
Xbox Live Arcade is an online service operated by Microsoft that is used to distribute arcade video games to Xbox and Xbox 360 owners. In addition to classic arcade games, the service offers some new original games as well as games from other consoles.
While the first Xbox's graphics processing unit was produced by NVIDIA, the Xbox 360 uses a chip designed by ATI called Xenos.
The Xbox 360 was the first home console to be released in the seventh generation of game consoles and competes against Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii.
Backward compatibility is achieved through software emulation of the original Xbox.
he Xbox 360 can connect to Xbox Live through an optional wireless network adapter on a home network through a wireless router.
Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft.
John Carmack stated at QuakeCon 2005 that the Xbox 360 has "the best development environment I've seen on a console".