Xbox 360
It's from 2005, before you were born.
- Maker
- Microsoft
- Type
- Home console
- Debuted
- 2005
- Note
- Infamous Red Ring of Death
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About
As of 2026, it's 21 years old.
The 360 beat Sony to market by a year and built a generation around Xbox Live, headset trash talk, and the achievement-point dopamine drip that quietly rewired how we play.
It also gave us the Red Ring of Death — three crimson lights that meant your console had bricked itself — a hardware curse so widespread Microsoft set aside a billion-plus dollars to make it right.
Halo, headsets, and a little ring of doom: the console that made online multiplayer the main event.
Xbox 360 through the years
Launch
Beats the PS3 to shelves by a full year.
Red Ring reckoning
Microsoft extends warranties, eats a massive repair bill.
Kinect
Controller-free motion control arrives mid-generation.
