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Question by Zombs: How much is an xbox360 with these items listed below?
Xbox360 (Arcade), 3 controllers, headset, modernwarfare 2, halo 3, gears of war 2 and xbox live.and what are the requierments i need to buy for the rest of the xbox? How much are they? How much in all then? Also another question. Should i buy the arcade, pro and elite? If you cant figure out how much these requirements…I dont mind an estimation thank you.

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Answer by Nirmal
Manufacturer Microsoft
Product family Xbox
Type Video game console
Generation Sixth generation
Retail availability NA November 15, 2001
JP February 22, 2002
PAL March 14, 2002
Discontinued JP 2005

NA 2006

EU 2006
Units sold 24+ million (as of May 10, 2006)[1]
Media DVD, CD
Operating system Custom (Based on Windows NT architecture and Windows XP (through Xbox LIVE))
CPU Custom 733 MHz Intel Pentium III “Coppermine-based” processor
Storage capacity 8 or 10 GB internal Hard Drive (both formatted to 8 GB), 8 MB memory card
Memory 64 MB of DDR SDRAM @ 200 MHz
Graphics 233 MHz nVidia NV2A
Controller input six maximum (wired)
Connectivity 100Mbit Ethernet
Online services Xbox Live
Best-selling game Halo 2, 8 million (as of May 9, 2006)[2][3]
Successor Xbox 360Xbox 360
Main articles: Xbox 360 and List of Xbox games compatible with Xbox 360

Nvidia ceased production of the Xbox’s GPU in August 2005, which marked the end of Xbox production and the quick release of the Xbox 360 on November 22, 2005. The Xbox 360 had superior storage, audio and video capabilities compared to the original Xbox.

Components

The Xbox was the first to wield a hard disk drive, used primarily for storing game saves and content downloaded from Xbox Live. This eliminated the need for separate memory cards (although some older consoles, such as the TurboGrafx-CD, Sega CD and Sega Saturn had featured built-in battery backup memory prior to 2001). An Xbox user could rip music from standard audio CDs to the hard drive, and these songs were used for the custom soundtracks in some games.[10]

The Xbox was the first gaming product to feature Dolby Interactive Content-Encoding Technology, which allows real-time Dolby Digital encoding in game consoles. Previous game consoles could only use Dolby Digital 5.1 during non-interactive “cut scene” playback.[11]

The Xbox is based on commodity PC hardware and is much larger and heavier than its contemporaries. This is largely due to a bulky tray-loading DVD-ROM drive and the standard-size 3.5 inch hard drive. The Xbox has also pioneered safety features, such as breakaway cables for the controllers to prevent the console from being pulled from the surface it rests on.

Several internal hardware revisions have been made in an ongoing battle to discourage modding (hackers continually updated modchip designs in an attempt to defeat them), to cut manufacturing costs, and to make the DVD-ROM drive more reliable (some of the early units’ drives gave Disc Reading Errors due to the unreliable Thomson DVD-ROM drives used). Later generation units that used the Thomson TGM-600 DVD-ROM drives and the Philips VAD6011 DVD-ROM drives were still vulnerable to failure that rendered the consoles either unable to read newer discs or caused them to halt the console with an error code usually indicating a PIO/DMA identification failure, respectively. These units were not covered under the extended warranty.

In 2002 Microsoft and Nvidia entered arbitration over a dispute on the pricing of Nvidia’s chips for the Xbox.[12] Nvidia’s filing with the SEC indicated that Microsoft was seeking a US million discount on shipments for NVIDIA’s fiscal year 2002. Microsoft alleged violations of the agreement the two companies entered, sought reduced chipset pricing, and sought to ensure that Nvidia fulfill Microsoft’s chipset orders without limits on quantity. The matter was privately settled on February 6, 2003.[13]

Launch-era Xbox gaming units were made in Hungary and the controllers made mostly in Indonesia.
Accessories
The original Duke controller (left) and the Controller S (right).

The Xbox controller features two analog sticks, a pressure sensitive directional pad, two analog triggers, a Back button, a Start button, two accessory slots and six 8-bit analog action buttons (A/Green, B/Red, X/Blue, Y/Yellow, and Black and White buttons.)[14] The standard Xbox controller (also known as the “Duke” controller) was originally the Xbox controller for all territories except Japan. The Duke controller has been criticized for being bulky compared to other video game controllers (it was awarded “Blunder of the Year” by Game Informer in 2001[15] and a Guinness World Record for the biggest controller in Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2008, as well as being ranked the second worst video game controller ever by IGN editor Craig Harris.[16]). The Controller S, a smaller, lighter Xbox controller, was originally the standard Xbox controller only in Japan (codenamed “Akebono”),[17] designed for users with smaller hands.[18][19]
Xbox DVD Remote

The Controller S was released in other territories by popular demand, and eventually replaced the standard controller in the Xbox’s retail package, with the larger original controller available as an accessory. An 8 MB removable solid state memory card can be plugged into the controllers, onto which game saves can either be copied f

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