Xbox
...is the key to remaining successful in today's competitive business environment. In his column he comments saying; we have already suffered through years of "synergy," followed by "globalization," and the "wired world." Well, today, it is "convergence." We read of "digital convergence," "wireless convergence," and the legendary inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is even talking about the convergence of man and technology with his prediction that, "by 2045, strictly biological humans won't be able to keep up."
Convergence is defined as the occurrence of two or more things coming together (dictionary.com, 1). The Xbox 360 is a good example of convergence. The Xbox 360 is a video game console produced by Microsoft, developed in cooperation with IBM, ATI, and SIS. Microsoft before always relied upon their line of software for sales, but going into the game console industry would mix up their product line and hopefully make them more remembered then just for software (Wikipedia.com Xbox 1).
In its first year on the market, the system launched in 36 countries, more countries than any console has launched in a single year. The Xbox 360 is the successor to the Xbox, and competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of gaming systems Microsoft has run into some problems with the Xbox 360, they have lost over four billion dollars with this product because of their marketing strategy and has a problem attracting to certain audiences. Even with losing four billion dollars, they have sold 13.4 million consoles. The Consoles are available in three versions: the Elite, the Premium, and the Arcade (Wikipedia.com Xbox 360, 1).
The Xbox 360 uses the technologies: networking, gaming, pc capabilities and CD/DVD. We will be focusing on the networking, gaming and pc capabilities and less on the CD/DVD because that is...
View Full Essay
