Greets Microsoft Xbox 360 after 10 years of glorious activities – Investing Today

After 10 years of glorious and more than decent career, Microsoft has thought that it is time to say goodbye with its first gaming console success, Xbox 360 . It will therefore now produced the first generation of Redmond console, but the software support that still exist will remain, so in that respect you can rest easy. Microsoft has decided to concentrate all its efforts on Xbox One , holding the tenth anniversary of the Xbox 360 to turn off not only the candles on his birthday. The news was announced by the head of the Xbox division Phil Spencer in a press release posted on the Xbox.com website, which was also traced the glorious history of this console launched in late 2005: within a decade there were over 80 million units sold in a single decade.

Xbox 360 has made the history of Microsoft in the gaming industry: with it several prestigious titles were launched, such as Halo and with it made its debut on the market Kinect, that has innovated the way of playing the console, bringing – not for the first time of course – a system of sensors to integrate with the ‘ aspect of gaming. Xbox 360 has been a successful console, but all good stories end up in a certain way: Microsoft will place and will sell the last of the first generation console stocks remained, but the production is already finished and with the passage of months to buy an Xbox 360 action will be very rare, as long as these consoles will not be impossible to find, maybe become collector’s items, regaining economic value in the future.

owners of the Xbox 360 can rest easy though, as Microsoft announced that no end support and service to users already own the console. This will result in the release of software updates that will be released at the appropriate time, thus also Xbox Live will continue to support the console. As for the rest, they expect new in the upcoming conference E3 in Los Angeles , in which Microsoft could present some interesting innovation, but for which for now does not talk much. Some make reference to a possible new generation console – an answer to PlayStation NEO 4.5? – But for the moment it is too early to make assumptions of this kind.