Seven Things the Xbox 360 Does Better Than Anyone Else

January 13th 2006 | Games Consoles

Despite some initial launch stumbles and a lukewarm reception to the Xbox 360 in Japan, we still remain optimistic about the Microsoft Xbox 360’s success worldwide. In our list of “The 11 Mistakes Microsoft Made with the Xbox 360,” we necessarily focused on many non-gaming problems with the system.

When discussing the features that the Xbox 360 does better than the competition, virtually all of the strengths are gaming related. Microsoft already has a robust software development environment and sufficiently powerful hardware to last for the next 5 years. While Sony will be bringing additional horsepower and blu-ray support and Nintendo will likely bring an SDK of similar, only the Xbox 360 incorporates the best of both worlds.

The Xbox 360’s killer feature is in Xbox Live. The real question will be how developers will choose to use the “always on” network connection to bring new gaming experiences.

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Seven Things the Xbox 360 Does Better Than Anyone Else
Published in: Games Consoles on 2006-01-13