Microsoft have just sent out a pre-E3
press release about their upcoming next generation console, the Xbox 360. Its many features include a free out-of-the-box Xbox Live service (called 'Silver', with the premium service being called 'Gold'), HD support for all titles, and a heap of other cool stuff.
Not only does Xbox 360 promise to deliver the ultimate home entertainment experience, it is also set to bring friends and family closer to home through the addition of real time video and voice chat. Australians can make new friends around the corner or across the globe in an extension of the Xbox Live online service, a worldwide community of nearly two million users.
Check out the full press release for the rest of the information (there's quite a bit there, so let it digest). There's also a
release movie. Technical specifications are also
available.
Posted 03:06pm 13/5/05
unveiling vid if anyone is interested.
Posted 03:11pm 13/5/05
If it does everything it says it does in the article well, I'm up for one!
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Xbox 360 System Performance Specifications
- Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
- Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
- VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
- 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
- 1 MB L2 cache
- 9 billion dot product operations per second
- 500MHz processor
- 10 MB of embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
- Unified shader architecture
- 500 million triangles per second
- 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA
- 48 billion shader operations per second
- 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MHz of DDR
- Unified memory architecture
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s front-side bus
- 1 teraflop
- Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive
- 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
- Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB
- Support for up to four wireless game controllers
- Three USB 2.0 ports
- Two memory unit slots
- Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies, or listening to music
- Built-in Ethernet port
- Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g
- Video camera ready
- Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
- Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs
- Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive
- Custom playlists in every game
- Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
- Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers
- Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported
- Multi-channel surround sound output
- Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32-bit audio processing
- Over 256 audio channels
- Stands vertically or horizontally
- Interchangeable to personalize the console
Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
CPU Game Math Performance
Custom ATI Graphics Processor
Polygon Performance
Pixel Fill Rate
Shader Performance
Memory
Memory Bandwidth
Overall System Floating-Point Performance
Storage
I/O
Optimized for Online
Digital Media Support
High-Definition Game Support * All games supported at 16:9, 720p, and 1080i, anti-aliasing
Audio
System Orientation
Customizable Face Plates
Availability: Holiday 2005
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last edited by trog at 16:24:24 13/May/05
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Posted 04:26pm 13/5/05
when it say 3 symetrical cores running at 3.2ghz, does that mean 1 cpu that can do 3 things at once?
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Coming out everywhere before the years end
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Posted 05:50pm 13/5/05
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/12/news_6124231.html
Edit - Actually, that doesn't confirm Australia for 2005..but generally we're considered to be the same as Europe for release dates etc.
last edited by Tim Tibbetts at 17:50:26 13/May/05
Posted 06:01pm 13/5/05
http://www.xbox.com/en-us/xbox360/console.htm
looks like we get it next year
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Sony or Nintendo will have to do something truly special to best that, Sony more so then Nintendo.
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surely the benefits would justify the larger die size / heat
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High-Lighted the answer for ya. So 6 'things' at once. :)
Posted 10:51pm 13/5/05
http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EEEFylpkElFffmiBlr.php
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Posted 11:03pm 13/5/05
http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/neon.php
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Posted 03:59pm 14/5/05
wtf? I'm on holiday now! Or is "Christmas" now a swear word in the USA, along with "hell" and "bum"?