Microsoft XBOX 360

[Andavari]

I know it was only just unveiled 05/13/2005 on MTV worldwide, however I looked high and low for some stats and eventually gave up since most sites are dicussing the same thing.

 

Does anyone of the fellow CCleaner family/community know of, or can speculate with some accuracy about the XBOX 360 specifications/power such as:

* CPU

* Graphics

* Polygons

* Hi Definition (since games will be in HD is the system only compatible with HD TV's?)

* Disc format (DVD, etc)

[TwistedMetal]

CPU: 3 (YES 3) Intel 3.2 GHz (Super computing power)

Graphics: ATI 10MB embedded with 48 pipelines

Polygons: 1 trillion I believe

Hi Def: All games for Xbox 360 will be HDTV ready. It will run on any tv though.

Disc Format: DVD

 

More features:

 

512MB PC3200

Backwards compatible.

Xbox Live ready right out of the box. Weither you have a xbox live account or not.

Custom faceplates

WiFi A, B, G ready

You actually have a OS on Xbox 360. Watch trailers, download demos, cd audio playlists, friends, video chat, and so on.

[Tarun]

The controller, the camera, the headset, the camera, and even the console itself...there have been a lot of Xbox 360 leaks so far.

 

Now, it seems a full list of Xbox 360 specs and Xbox Live details has been leaked. This list comes from a thread on the Team Xbox forums (the thread has since been deleted), and the TXB poster originally got it from another un-named forum.

 

 

2 types of Xbox Live:

Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)

Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

 

Features for Gold service

(S) Also for Silver

(O) Also for Offline

 

- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360

- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) (S)

- Free Xbox Live weekends (S)

- Multiplayer online gameplay

- Avatar for gamer profile(S)(O)

- Motto for gamer profile (S)(O)

- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide (S)(O)

- Offline achievments (S)(O)

- Online achievements (S)

- Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live (S)

- Cumulative gamer score (S)(O)

- Location/language profile (S)(O)

- Reputation (S)

- Enahnced matchmaking using above

- Skill level matchmaking

- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)

- Recent players list (S)

- Free and premium download game content(S)

- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv (S)

- Downloadable demos/trailers (S)

- Microtransactions (S)

- Custom playlist in every game (S)(O)

- Play music from portable devices (S)(O)

- View images from digital camera (S)(O)

- Strem media from Windows XP (S)(O)

- Interactive screen savers (S)(O)

- Track info for CDs (S) (O)

- Communication with voice, video or text (S)

 

The Hardware:

1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD

2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing

3. Customizable face plates to change appearance

4. 3 USB 2.0 ports

5. Support for 4 wireless controllers

6. Detachable 20GB drive

7. Wi-Fi ready

 

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU

- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each

- 2 hardware threads per core

- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core

- 1 MB L2 cache

 

CPU Game Math Performance

- 9 billion dots per second

 

Custom ATI Graphics Processor

- 500 MNz

- 10 MB embedded DRAM

- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines

- unified shader architecture

 

Memory

-512 MB GDDR3 RAM

- 700 MNz DDR

 

Memory Bandwidth

- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth

- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM

- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

 

Audio

- Mulitchannel surround sond output

- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio

- 320 independent decompression channels

- 32 bit processing

- 256+ audio channels

 

 

To sum up the important stuff regarding XBL:

 

There will be two versions of Xbox Live. Silver is free (everyone gets it), and Gold is a paid subscription, like the current XBL. It looks like Xbox Live will be free on the weekends for everyone; Gold members will get it all the time, obviously. Current Xbox Live accounts will carry over to the 360 and become Gold Xbox Live accounts. Both Gold and Silver members will be able to download demos, trailers, and other content through XBL.

 

This info seems pretty legit, and some insiders have confirmed that this is indeed a real leak.

[DjLizard]

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU

- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each

 

That's a lot different than saying there's three CPUs. Also it's PowerPC... which is basically Mac! Go Mac. Actually, all of the major consoles are going to be IBM PowerPC... PPC rules!@#$

[Andavari]

Thank's for the info everyone!

[Zamees]

As nice as this all sounds, I can't wait to have the 360 in my hands. it might even be time to upgrade to a full blown projector and 200" screen. But thats a dream of mine for now.

[Eldmannen]

The graphics looks impressing (however, sometimes companies release screenshots from videos or just some picture instead of actual in-game screenshot).

 

The XBox 360 probably is very good technically.

But I wouldnt buy it, because it comes with DRM (Digital Rights Management) or as some call it "Digital Restriction Management".

It makes it impossible to play any unauthorized copies (what companies love to refer to as piracy) of a game.

 

They also have silly ideas to sell game-content like, example you start the game with some cars, but if you want the better cars, you have to pay and it gets them online.

[nod32]

It makes it impossible to play any unauthorized copies (what companies love to refer to as piracy) of a game.

 

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Sorry to burst you'r bubble but that is piracy...

 

They also have silly ideas to sell game-content like, example you start the game with some cars, but if you want the better cars, you have to pay and it gets them online.

 

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And what game is this? Anyway if you read the whole thread you'd see that their making Xbox live silver free.