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Xbox 360 (Core): The original non-HDMI version of the Xbox 360.
Xbox 360 Pro: Recognizable on the silver colored optical drive rather than white one. It came bundled with a hybrid composite/component cable with optional optical out instead of the composite AV cable included with the Core, and a hard drive of 20 or 60 GB. After July 2007 the motherboard was changed to Zephyr (same as on the first Elite), and thus included HDMI output. From around September same year the Falcon motherboards were used.
Xbox 360 Arcade: Arcade models, which include an HDMI output.
Xbox 360 Elite: Includes a 120 or 250 GB hard drive and has a matte black finish.
Xbox 360 S (Slim): Xbox 360 S consoles feature redesigned internal architecture with the Valhalla motherboard, which allows for around 30% more space than previous motherboards, and the XCGPU, an integrated CPU/GPU/eDRAM chip using a 45 nm fabrication process.
Notes:
On July 2024 the 360 digital store shut down, making over 200 digital-only games unavailable and possibly lost forever.
- Rock Band
- Fallout 3
- New Vegas
- Street Fighter 4
- Dark Souls
- Skyrim
- Geometry Wars 2
- N+
- Castle Crashers
- Darksiders
- Divinity 2
- Braid (as an example of indie games)
- Braid
- Dark Souls (first experience)
- Skyrim (first experience)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Digital Distribution — Introduced downloadable indie games through Xbox Live Arcade, contributing to the growth of indie gaming.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Nintendo fans, here it is. My number two favorite system of all time is the Nintendo Gamecube.
- Oh my god. God, the Gamecube is so good.
- Eternal Darkness, the best Lovecraftian horror game ever made.
- Zelda, Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. By far my favorite Zelda game.
- Metroid Prime, my favorite Metroid game. So good. love that game. The atmosphere is great.
- I love the Gamecube. I wish Nintendo would have followed down that path, but I have a feeling if they would have, they probably wouldn't be around anymore.
- And finally, my number one system of all time, and that is the original Sony PlayStation.
- And uh that game reignited my passion for or that console reignited my passion for video games. And it's been ignited ever since.
- And the best thing about the Sony PlayStation 1 era was like this was a time before we had so much news coverage online about video games.
- And so I could go to a video game store and we had quite a few where I was from in Fresno, California, a local kind of chain called BR and then we had Software etc.
- you could go into a video game store and just look at the shelves and the shelves of the stores were huge and they had so many shelves and there were so many games for the PS1 and you could stumble upon games that you had no idea what they were because they weren't getting covered.
- These totally bizarre almost non games.
- They had refund and exchange policies at their store, so you could go in and buy a game with a full guarantee that you would like it.
- And it just it gave us the chance to try things out at home and, you know, decide whether or not we like the game.
- And so that, you know, kind of gave me the freedom to experiment with a whole bunch of different kinds of games.
- And I think that's a I think that's a huge uh miss. I think not allowing gamers to exchange games and not allowing for, you know, that's why I like Steam so much because you can buy a game, you can play it for a couple hours, and if you don't like it, you can refund it.