What is Xbox? What things differs it from Playstation?

What is Xbox? Xbox really  differs from PlayStation?

To understand what represents Xbox, imagine the following. Bill Gates in person addresses to you . He addresses not for borrowing thirty bucks on journey. He wants typical gamers to think about "ideal gamebox", that will have all things they need. For an embodiment of your ideas he has a command of engineers and programmers, there are money for manufacturing a "gamebox" and connections for "gamebox" release. Your problem is to tell, what, in your opinion, should be an "ideal gamebox".

When you hear such offer, you will think what to tell . You will collect friends-gamers, sit down in a circle and start to make the list of qualities which the "gamebox № 1" in the world should possess.

The gamebox should be the more powerful of the most powerful existing.

The gamebox should be as much as possible convenient, with functional joypads.

The new gamebox should be combined with all popular games, therefore it is necessary to get support of the largest manufacturers of games.

The gamebox should have connection to the Internet. Killing virtual monsters or compete with an artificial intellect is good business, but compete with live people is more interesting in one thousand times .

Bill Gates accepts the list of your requirements and transfer to his experts. They add to all you said four high-speed ports for joypads , and also possibilities of playing DVD. Designers suggest to pack dream of players into a black box with a cross on a cover. And legendary gamebox Xbox was born.

It was 2001 year. Before starting gamebox creation, Microsoft has interviewed among five thousand players from the different countries of the world. Moreover, representatives of the company have visited 130 gamers for purpose to see them playing, and look, where and in what conditions they play, where they store the gamebox.

The release of a new gamebox has been grandiosely planned too. The PR was interesting. Man that served the first buyers was Bill Gates himself. The gamebox had wide popularity in America. Now it successfully competes with company SONY production, and even it is not necessary to speak about other gameboxes. Xbox was used and in other way except direct appointment. For example, owners of Xbox are relieved of necessity to buy a DVD-player. The successor of a popular gamebox became Xbox 360 which official release has taken place in November, 2005.