The Xbox’s plugs and ports, a visual history

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If you overcrowd proof that the Xbox has everlastingly been unique from other consoles, attending at the ports as well as plugs. From the original Xbox to the Xbox One, as well as soon, the Xbox Shakiness X, Microsoft has upheld the vein of implementing an I/O console filled with all of the standards as well as a few ports that enable some unique features. In the bewailing of the Xbox that released in 2003, having an Ethernet jack was evolutionary as well as helped to popularize online gaming for consoles. On the other hand, the Kinect abetting port was unique, except it never really went anywhere.

We afresh explored the history of the Xbox dashboard, the ever-changing software used to cross the consoles. It was fun to turn-on independently the software to see how Microsoft evolved with the times. As well as now, since Microsoft has shown off increasingly of the Xbox Shakiness X, we're going to harmonize the aforementioned retrospective treatment to the ports.

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A simple port specifications for simpler times. Microsoft got off to a good-tasting alpha in the console smokeshaft with an internal precocity totality as well as an Ethernet port. Who could forget, though, that in order to watch DVDs with the Xbox, you needed to purchase the unapprehended as well as IR receiver that plugged into a controller port?

• Rear I/O: precocity port (internal precocity supply), proprietary A/V port, Ethernet
• Front I/O: four proprietary controller ports

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Xbox 360 (launch version)

The Xbox 360 kicked off quite a few new ideas for Microsoft. It ditched youthful controllers for wireless ones. It shifted the memory letterhead slots from those original Xbox controllers onto the console itself, as well as it fabricated the nonbreakable drives hot-swappable. The USB ports sooner immune for the use of USB drives as well as equipment for storage as well as media playback. These were all good-tasting changes. On the downside, the rear USB port was designful to quango a $99 dongle that enabled Wi-Fi connectivity. Conceivably worse than that, the interloper precocity brick was a pangs to lug around. Its size could be likened to a meticulous brick, except conceivably a little lighter. It was relatively nine inches long, three inches wide, as well as two inches thick.

• Rear I/O: precocity port (external precocity supply), proprietary A/V port (supported composite, component, VGA), Ethernet, one USB port (HDMI was available in the Elite, as well as latterly affixed to the swinging console)
• Front I/O: two USB ports, two proprietary memory letterhead slots
• Side I/O: proprietary adapter for removable nonbreakable drive

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Xbox 360 Slim

This rewriting is slimmer as well as soften than the pelting version of the Xbox 360. By this time, Microsoft implemented HDMI exceeding all Xbox 360 consoles as well as directory optical audio (a inclination that Sony had beforehand with the PS2). Conceivably the biggest fecundation here is the introduction of the Kinect abetting port.

Wait, did subtraction say Kinect? The Verge's archives has a precise picture for that.

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• Rear I/O: precocity port (external precocity supply), directory optical audio port, proprietary A/V port, HDMI out, three USB ports, Ethernet, one abetting port for Kinect
• Front I/O: two USB ports

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Xbox 360 E

In 2013, as Microsoft was gearing up to pelting the Xbox One, it released the Xbox 360 E. It has a increasingly elegant attending than the Snip model, as well as it's a far cry from the original Xbox 360 design. Much relatively this device's port selection is the aforementioned as the Slim, though missing from this one is the proprietary A/V adapter as well as among among one of the USB ports.

• Rear I/O: precocity port (external precocity supply), HDMI out, a composite port, one abetting port for Kinect, Ethernet, two USB ports
• Front I/O: two USB ports

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Xbox One (launch version)

Microsoft really went for it with the port selection on the Xbox One, throwing out the strategy of segregating ports for unique price tiers of its Xbox 360 consoles. The Xbox One was a fully snobby media center, all-out with separate HDMI in as well as out ports as well as an infrared port to loop it in with your facetiousness deepest remotes. Despite how large this console was, you'd, unfortunately, be wrong to assume that Microsoft put the precocity totality central of it. Yes, it included a huge interloper precocity brick.

• Rear I/O: precocity port (external precocity supply), HDMI out, HDMI in, directory optical audio port, two USB ports, one abetting port for Kinect, infrared port, Ethernet.
• Front I/O: nothing
• Side I/O: one USB port

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Xbox One S as well as Xbox One X

The Xbox One S as well as X consoles largely mirror each other's design, as well as the aforementioned goes for port selection. Microsoft inescapably ditched the Kinect abetting port with both consoles, as well as at last, it put the precocity supplies central of the console.

• Rear I/O: precocity port (internal precocity supply), HDMI out, HDMI in, two USB ports, infrared port, directory optical audio port, Ethernet
• Front I/O: one USB port, infrared receiver as well as blaster

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Xbox Shakiness X

Though the Xbox Shakiness X won't be released until latterly in 2020, Microsoft seems to have nailed gravitating the port selection on the Xbox Shakiness X, co-ordinate to a hands-on attending from Digital Foundry. We're quickly learning increasingly relatively the unreleased console -- for instance, that the mysterious rectangle abutting to the HDMI port is a storage amplification slot for a proprietary PCIe 4.0 drives. We moreover learned that it has two USB Type-A ports on the inadvertently (even though the new controller will fluency via USB-C). And, praise be, the precocity totality is scatheless into the console itself.

• Rear I/O: precocity port (internal precocity supply), Ethernet, two USB ports, directory optical audio port, HDMI out, proprietary memory amplification slot
• Front I/O: one USB port