The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. As the successor to the original Xbox, it is the second console in the Xbox series. It competed with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12, 2005, with detailed launch and game information announced later that month at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) The Xbox 360 features an online service, Xbox Live, which was expanded from its previous iteration on the original Xbox and received regular updates during the console's lifetime. Available in free and subscription-based varieties, Xbox Live allows users to: play games online; download games (through Xbox Live Arcade) and game demos; purchase and stream music, television programs, and films through the Xbox Music and Xbox Video portals; and access third-party content services through media streaming applications. In addition to online multimedia features, it allows users to stream media from local PCs. Several peripherals have been released, including wireless controllers, expanded hard drive storage, and the Kinect motion sensing camera. The release of these additional services and peripherals helped the Xbox brand grow from gaming-only to encompassing all multimedia, turning it into a hub for living-room computing entertainment. Launched worldwide across 2005–2006, the Xbox 360 was initially in short supply in many regions, including North America and Europe. The earliest versions of the console suffered from a high failure rate, indicated by the so-called "Red Ring of Death", necessitating an extension of the device's warranty period. Microsoft released two redesigned models of the console: the Xbox 360 S in 2010, and the Xbox 360 E in 2013. Xbox 360 is the ninth-highest-selling home video game console in history, and the highest-selling console made by an American company. Although not the best-selling console of its generation, the Xbox 360 was deemed by TechRadar to be the most influential through its emphasis on digital media distribution and multiplayer gaming on Xbox Live. The Xbox 360's successor, the Xbox One, was released on November 22, 2013. On April 20, 2016, Microsoft announced that it would end the production of new Xbox 360 hardware, although the company will continue to support the platform. On August 17, 2023, Microsoft announced that on July 29, 2024, the Xbox 360 game marketplace will stop offering new purchases and Microsoft Movies & TV app will no longer function (the console will still be able to download previously purchased content, run it, and enter multiplayer sessions).
Near the end of the second tournament, Kei Ikushima, after defeating Regulus in the finals, discovers that the underground laboratory's self-destruct mechanism has been activated. As she was about to make her escape, she would end up crossing paths with Eileen A. once again. Kei tried to escape the lab with Eileen, but she hesitated, instead telling Kei the answer she was looking: Kei was actually the daughter of none other than the CEO of Orion Corporation, Ranzou Kihara. She then gives Kei a letter before telling her to go on and leave the building without her. Kei hesitates at first but soon obliges as the lab eventually explodes, leaving Eileen behind, her fate unknown. Three years after the explosion at the Orion labs, Kei finds out more about her past from the letter Eileen gave her before the incident. She also found out that her DNA was taken for usage in Orion's Perfect Fighter Project, the very same set of experiments that orphaned her adoptive father Shin and ruined the lives of many others. Fast forward to several weeks before Kei’s 20th birthday, several attacks on various martial artists have been reported. All of them perpetrated by people who bore a striking semblance to Kei. As a result, Kei has been blamed for all the attacks, despite having no hand on them. Kei then began to suspect that it had something to do with the Perfect Fighter Project that Eileen had mentioned. Then, on the day of Kei’s 20th birthday, Orion announces the third Sentoki: Global Martial Arts tournament. Kei joins the tournament in order to cleanse her name and find out the truth of it all.
