Moving away from its predecessor's PowerPC-based architecture, the Xbox One marks a shift back to the x86 architecture used in the original Xbox it features an AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) built around the x86-64 instruction set. An eighth-generation console, it mainly competed against Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Wii U and later the Switch.
Microsoft marketed the device as an 'all-in-one entertainment system', hence the name 'Xbox One'. It is the first Xbox game console to be released in China, specifically in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone. It was first released in North America, parts of Europe, Australia, and South America in November 2013 and in Japan, China, and other European countries in September 2014. Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to Xbox 360 and the third base console in the Xbox series of video game consoles. The Xbox One is a line of home video game consoles developed by Microsoft.
