Expository Essay: The Xbox Series

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Expository Essay- FINAL DRAFT
Cameron Davis
10/16/17
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Have you ever heard of a system called the Xbox? This series has been loved for years ever since it’s release. The Xbox series has many designs,models,and looks. Microsoft has been producing Xbox’s for sixteen years ever since 2001. The Xbox has a long history coming from 2001 from the creators idea from actually putting it into action.
Starting from the year 2001 the Xbox has been one of the well know gaming consoles for young children to enjoy themselves on a television screen. The Xbox was the company Microsoft’s first ticket into gaming consoles. According to Marshall the notation that Microsoft developed its own gaming console began gaining traction way back in 1998, with Kevin
Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Otto Berkes and Ted Hase forming the software giant’s first console team after pitching their idea to Bill Gates.
Marshall also states that two years later Microsoft was ready to go public with its first console on March 10, 2000. The developer of the Xbox connected with Bungie Studios, the creator of a third person shooter called Halo Combat Evolved (2013). The second console from Microsoft was unveiled on May 12, 2005. Xbox 360 was unveiled as the next generation of its gaming console. With plans to be released sometime in November According to Marshall the final tally of sold consoles sitting at around 24 million units. While this was
nothing to scoff at, the number fell far short of Microsoft's initial prediction of 50 million Xbox consoles in households around the world. Yet it was nowhere near the amount sold by their competitors the Playstation two at the time. The latest system that has entered the Xbox series is the Xbox One. This system is called the Xbox one which was released November 22, 2013. The Xbox one has been around for about four years now yet the upgrade from the first Xbox to the Xbox one has been a great boost to the systems performance. The Xbox one has smoother and can handle higher quality graphics from the games that can be play on the system. The system is also backwards compatible with the Xbox 360 meaning most games played on the 360 can also be played on the Xbox one which makes this upgrade useful.
So who were the people who came up with the Xbox in the first place?
To simplify it Microsoft developed and sold the Xbox to begin with but the actual people who came up with the creation of the Xbox. Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Otto Berkes, and Ted Hase formed the software giant’s first console. Kevin Bachus was the co-creator of the original Microsoft Xbox. Bachus joined Dave & Buster’s as its senior vice president of entertainment and games strategy in 2012 (22 Oct. 2012). According to Hall, Seamus Blackley, another one of the designers of the original Xbox, wanted the Xbox’s remote to be big and bulky almost like a small steering wheel. As for Blackley to be a large man with large hands he lead the charge to recreate The controller known as “The Duke” in all its glory The Duke has been remade to be fit for the Xbox One (14 June 2016). Otto Berkes Bloomberg states that Berkes brings some serious digital credit to the table, as one of the founders of Microsoft's Xbox video game empire. Berkes was also a progenitor of the HBO GO streaming video service. Otto Berkes later left Microsoft after 18 years working at the company. Berkes sooner teamed up with Microsoft tech evangelist Ted Hase to create Windows game machines. They were later joined by Seamus Blackley and Kevin Bachus. Berkes and Hase left the Xbox team in the early 2000, before the Xbox’s launch in 2001 (21 July
2015,).

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It's amazing how much work has been put into this system. Many people are still working on the Xbox to make it better than the next, yet it still has it’s competitor the Playstation to compete with.