Xbox

• Type: Muggle electronic device (video game console)
• Owners: None mentioned in the series.
• Maker: Microsoft

An Xbox is a home video game console created and owned by the Muggle company Microsoft. It connects to a television set and is used to play a wide variety of electronic games.

As a Muggle artifact, the Xbox possesses no magical properties. Its sole function is for entertainment through the playing of video games.

The Xbox video game console is not mentioned in the original seven Harry Potter novels. Its inclusion in fan discussions is a common point of confusion with a similar Muggle device, the PlayStation. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter notes in a letter to Sirius Black that his cousin, Dudley Dursley, owned a PlayStation. In a fit of anger related to his new diet, Dudley Dursley threw the console out of his bedroom window. This deprived him of the ability to play his favorite game, Mega-Mutilation Part Three.

The confusion between the Xbox and PlayStation likely stems from the fact that both were highly popular and competing video game consoles during the period the later Harry Potter books were published. The first PlayStation was released in 1994, and the PlayStation 2 in 2000, aligning with the timeframe of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The first Xbox was released in 2001. J.K. Rowling specifically named the PlayStation in the text, making it the canonical device owned by Dudley Dursley.