What is XBOX?

Xbox is a home game console developed and sold by Microsoft, the world's largest computer software company. In the game market, Xbox has formed a tripartite confrontation with Sony's Play Station 2 and Nintendo's Game Cube.

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Xbox console was first released in the United States on (2001115); Japan, a big game country in Asia, was released on February 22, 2002. Then they landed in North America, Europe and Australia. South Korea, Singapore, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province in Asia.

In order to compete with other companies' game consoles and change the unfavorable situation of the latest sale of contemporary game consoles, the predetermined price of Xbox in Japan is about 34,800 yen. After several price adjustments, the price of Xbox combo pack 2 (including two game softwares, a game controller, DVD player suite, etc.) has dropped. ) The price released in May 2004 has been reduced to about 65,438+09,000 yen. Microsoft has also adopted a similar "carnival" price reduction strategy in other regions.

At the beginning of sales, DVDs and CDs placed on the host computer will be scratched by the optical drive. Japanese people who hate defective products have sharply criticized Xbox, especially satirizing Xbox as an "X" box or a "ferocious box" in Japan's largest electronic bulletin system "2ch". Since then, Microsoft has provided free physical maintenance and replacement. At the beginning of 2005, Microsoft announced that some early Xbox had power cord design problems, which might cause damage to the body or human body, and provided free power cord replacement service. Globally, mainframes produced on or after June 23, 2003 (Europe: June 23, 2004) do not need to replace the power cord.

Built-in Pentium III basic CPU manufactured by Intel Corporation. It also uses the built-in 8GB hard disk and DVD-ROM drive, and the built-in Ethernet port to support the network, which is similar to the personal computer architecture. The controller port shape is different from USB specification. From the hardware performance indicators, Xbox is the most powerful of the "three major hosts".

Xbox Live online game service was launched in the United States in 2002 10, Japan in 2003 10 and European countries in March 2003. This service can provide real-time online services for game products with live broadcast function, including: online player list; Multi-player networking game; Voice online chat; Player points leaderboard and other functions. In 2004, Xbox launched the "Xbox Video Chat" suite in Japan, which can support multi-person online video chat with Xbox Live.

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PDA, the full name of Personal Digital Assistant in English, is a personal digital assistant, which generally refers to a handheld computer. Compared with traditional computers, PDA has the advantages of portability, compactness and strong mobility, but it also has powerful functions. However, it has the disadvantages of small screen and limited battery life. PDA usually uses a stylus as an input device and a memory card as an external storage medium. In wireless transmission, most PDAs have infrared and Bluetooth interfaces to ensure the convenience of wireless transmission. Many PDAs can also connect with Wi-Fi and GPS.

Personal computer products with portability between traditional PC and PDA include notebook computers and tablet computers.

The first PDA was Newton produced by Apple Computer Company in 1992. But this product is very unsuccessful in business. Later, the graffiti input method specially used for handwriting input appeared, and a PDA company using this input method launched a series of products called Palm, which achieved great success. At the end of the 20th century, Microsoft entered this field, and first launched the Windows CE 1.0 operating system, but the performance of this system was not satisfactory in all aspects, but then Microsoft launched Windows Pocket Edition 2002, which established the leading position of PPC operating system.

At present, the most popular operating system platforms for handheld computers are Palm OS and Microsoft Windows Mobile series.

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