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The Xbox 360 S , (as well known as the Xbox 360 Slim) is a video game panel adult and marketed past Microsoft. Information technology is the second model in the Xbox 360 line and is the successor to the Xbox 360. It was released on July, 2010 in the Us.

The Xbox 360 S is quieter and faster compared to previous revisions of the Xbox 360 and included a congenital in port for the Kinect, a movement sensing accessory that removes the demand for a controller. The Kinect was released several months after the Xbox 360 S, but the panel was frequently marketed and bundled with the accompaniment.

Development [ ]

Announcement [ ]

During E3 2010, Microsoft unveiled a brand new revision of the Xbox 360. The model at the annunciation was described every bit being much smaller than past models, featuring a 250GB hard drive and a built in Wireless N two.4Ghz Wi-Fi adapter, which the original Xbox 360 pattern lacked.

Design [ ]

The Xbox 360 S features a similar just refined pattern to its predecessors. The Xbox 360 S is 17% smaller in form gene than information technology'due south predecessor and features significant pattern changes such equally the removal of the two retentivity card slots featured on previous models also every bit relocation of the USB controller receptacle, which has been rotated 90 degrees vertically and relocated to the right side of the face. Additionally, the controller sync button and IR port were moved to the elevation of the USB receptacle and the IR port and sync button were combined into i sleek unit. The ability and eject buttons accept also been changed from physical buttons to touch-sensitive buttons with this revision. The new design carried forrad the Xbox 360 emblems featured on the disk bulldoze and side of the console. The starting time Xbox 360 S model featured a glossy blackness end with chrome trim. Later models included a matte black finish with gloss black trim, a glossy white finish which was arranged with a matching glossy white Kinect accompaniment and two Kinect games, as well as several limited edition variants each with their own unique styling.

The Xbox 360 South featured a completely overhauled cooling system to combat the overheating problem which acquired the Red Ring of Death on previous models. It featured an open meridian and bottom grill where hot air is exhausted, now using parallel slats instead of small holes. The prepare of ii side vents (when stood vertically) were combined in to one much larger intake vent which was relocated to the bottom half of the side panel. These factors combined drastically improved the console's cooling ability. Despite the much more open airflow pattern, information technology was significantly quieter than its predecessor. The removable hard drive which was previously located prominently on superlative of the console was redesigned to be installed internally via a removable department of the grill on the bottom and was no longer externally visible when installed. The initial version included an upgraded 250GB hard drive, with express editions featuring a larger 320GB model. Later variants of the Xbox 360 S featured a matte black cease and did not include a hard drive. They instead included 4gb of integrated storage, however these models retained the new hard drive bay and could easily take their storage upgraded via an official Microsoft hard drive. While unofficial hard drives were supported, using an unofficial bulldoze would block the backwards compatibility of original Xbox games on the Xbox 360 Due south.

In addition to these changes, the Xbox 360 S was the first Xbox 360 model to feature a dedicated port for the new Kinect accompaniment in social club to ready the console for the launch of the Kinect accessory. The new model too included an additional USB port on the rear output to accommodate a growing range of accessories, raising the full to 3 in addition the 2 on the front face of the console, for a full of 5 USB ports. It also carried frontward the HDMI port which had previously been added to the Xbox 360 line with the Jasper revision of the original pattern in order to accommodate the growing HDMI standard.

The Xbox 360 S dropped support for swappable faceplates due to the modify in design and form factor.

Trivia [ ]

The Xbox 360 Southward was the first Xbox model to have a power-on and eject tones.
The limited editions of the Xbox 360 S feature power-on and eject tones unique to the edition.
The limited editions of the Xbox 360 Southward included one or two matching controllers depending on the edition.
The Halo: Reach edition featured a 250GB difficult drive, with subsequent limited editions including the 320GB upgrade.
Later versions of the Xbox 360 South included an updated controller featuring a new control stick design and a transforming d-pad.
The Gears of War 3 edition included 2 matching controllers and was the commencement to feature the new transforming d-pad, but lacked the updated control stick design.
The Star Wars edition was stylized as R2-D2 and included a matching white Kinect accessory and C-3PO controller with updated stick pattern and transforming D-pad.
The Star Wars and Halo iv editions of the Xbox 360 S are the only editions to characteristic blue ability lights instead of the standard dark-green.
The Halo four edition included two matching controllers and was the only edition to have controllers which also featured blue lights.

Consoles and other devices
Evolution kits	Xbox Blastoff Tower I • Xbox Blastoff Tower II • Xbox Evolution Kit • Xbox 360 Development Kit • Xbox I Development Kit
Sixth generation	Xbox • Bundles
7th generation	Xbox 360 • Xbox 360 S • Xbox 360 E • Bundles
Eighth generation	Xbox I • Xbox One S • Xbox One X • Xbox Ane S All-Digital Edition • Bundles
Ninth generation	Xbox Series X • Xbox Series S
Cancelled	Xbox Image • Unreleased Limited Edition Halo Xbox • Xbox Scout