Evolution of the Xbox

Intro

• Fine to celebrate success more important to
• heed lessons of failure
• Bill Gates' failures most widely used console on market
• DirectX Box's launch in 2001. Then Xbox 360 launched 4 years later
• Xbox One launched just eight years later

DirectX Box

• Otto Berkes, team leader, Seamus Blackley, Ted Hase, and Kevin Bachus
• Featured front-loading DVD tray, a multi signal audio/video connector, 
• an Ethernet port, a NVIDIA GPU, an Intel 733 MHz processor,
• and an internal hard drive
• Released in US on Nov. 15, 2001

Xbox 360

• James Allard
• Featured built in Wi-Fi, Xbox Live, Kinect Ready, wireless
• controllers that can last up to 30 hours on two AA batteries
• In US released on Nov. 22, 2005
• Red Rings of Death

Xbox One

• Boyd Multerer
• featured many dedicated servers for all its games, an AZURE
• server network which is extremely powerful, Cloud media storage, and 
• external HDD support
• Released on Nov. 22, 2013

Conclusion

• Bill Gates explained, after many stopped buying his items,
• "your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."