The Xbox 360 puts you at the centre of an exciting, personalized entertainment experience. The console is a powerful next-generation gaming system, featuring a robust library of hundreds of games, high-definition (HD) graphics, and multichannel digital sound. Beyond gaming, the Xbox 360 allows playback of music, photos, and videos stored on Windows-based PCs or Universal Serial Bus peripherals. You even can use your music and photos to customize gaming environments. With Xbox LIVE, you can challenge and cooperate with friends in multiplayer scenarios (Gold Xbox LIVE account required); stream movies and TV shows; and download new content, including demos and games.

Get Connected to the Things You Love

The Xbox ecosystem: Hundreds of HD games, Xbox LIVE to connect to friends and entertainment, multimedia connections from USB devices or a Windows PC.

Game On

Xbox 360 is home to more game choices than ever before, with blockbuster titles, Xbox LIVE Arcade games, and community games on Xbox LIVE coming later this year. With a hard drive attached, Xbox 360 is backward compatible with many original Xbox games. As well, Xbox 360 Arcade is an easy and fun way to enjoy the best of classic casual titles such as Uno and PAC-MAN Championship Edition. In addition to looking and sounding fantastic on standard definition TVs, all Xbox 360 titles perform in HD for smooth, movie-like graphics and multichannel surround sound.

LIVE Free and Play Hard

Connect your Xbox 360 console to a broadband connection and get instant access to Xbox LIVE with an included Xbox LIVE Silver Membership. Access Xbox LIVE Marketplace and Xbox LIVE Arcade--all right out of the box. Express your digital identity through a personalized avatar. Talk using video and voice chat on Xbox LIVE (headset and camera not included with the Xbox 360 console), or text chat with anyone who has access to Windows Live Messenger (keyboard not included with Xbox console). Xbox LIVE Marketplace Video Store offers more than 5,600 hours of entertainment content, including high- and standard-definition movies and television shows. Upgrade to an Xbox LIVE Gold Membership, and enter the exciting world of multiplayer online gaming. With matchmaking, access to all your achievements and statistics, video chat and video messaging, and an enormous selection of games, Xbox LIVE Gold delivers your competition, on your terms.

Call Your Guide

Press the Xbox 360 Guide Button on your controller at any time--while you’re playing a game, watching a movie or listening to music--and the Xbox Gamer Guide will slide into view. From here, you can quickly see your online status and statistics, access messages, see which of your friends are online, set up a private chat, adjust your personal settings, and control your music.

Keep It Family Friendly

The Xbox 360 helps parents control the online and offline game experiences of their children by selecting whether they can play online and with whom they can play with. Parents also can lock the console to play only games that meet a certain rating. The family timer also helps parents regulate what kids play and for how long.

What's in the Box

The Xbox ecosystem: Hundreds of HD games, Xbox LIVE to connect to friends and entertainment, multimedia connections from USB devices or a Windows PC

Product Description

The new console from Microsoft will push video gaming into the era of high definition! This powerful machine is based around 512 MB of RAM, a 3.2 Ghz IBM processor (made up of three core processors), as well as a graphics chip clocked at 500 Mhz, specially designed for the console by ATI. This console's performances are amazing, with resolutions going up to 720p/1080i. For your comfort, the Xbox 360 comes with a 12x DVD player that offers 16:9 formats and a 32-bit(256-channel) 5.1 sound with a main bandwidth of 22.4 GB/sec.Control-wise, there is no need for cables as this console is wireless with its 10-metre range WiFi game pads. You can also connect it directly to an Xbox 360 headset to make sure that you don?t miss out on your online matches. The front of the console is removable, so you can customise your favourite gadget! The Xbox 360 gives you the best of cutting-edge technology and maximum wireless comfort, both via its game pads and its network thanks to WiFi technology (802.11a/b/g, in the Premium Pack or appropriateaccessories). This console will fit in perfectly with your everyday routine and will become your main multimedia platform that you canconnect to your computer, MP3 player (iPod or other) and your digitalcamera (supports JPEG, .GIF, .BMP and .TIFF formats) thanks to its 3USB 2.0 ports through which data is transferred to a hard drive. TheXbox 360 will also allow you to record TV programmes, turning it into areal juke box! All these functions are serviced by an extensive yetuser-friendly interface that is easy to access, so that all generationscan enjoy it! The Premium Version contains a 60 GB removable hard drive so you canstore the content that you download via the Xbox Live and enjoy thegames library of its big brother thanks to its compatibility with the Xbox 360!