Although next week might belong to the long-awaited movie, "Star Wars: Episode III," this is clearly the week for Xbox 360 hype, which is reaching unprecedented heights with daily leaks and revelations about key system features. Last night, the actual specifications of the new system were leaked to the Internet, and the Xbox 360 is looking like a formidable machine.
Allegedly powered by a custom 3.2GHz IBM PowerPC microprocessor with three symmetrical cores, the Xbox 360 will also include 512MB of RAM and a custom ATI video processor with 10MB of embedded DRAM. The Xbox 360's optical drive will support all the current major formats, including DVD video, DVD-R/W, DVD+R/W, CD-ROM/R/RW, Windows Media Audio (WMA) CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD-ROM, and more.
All Xbox 360 video games will support 1280 x 720 (16:9, 720p) and 1920 x 1080 (16:9, 1080i) displays with full anti-aliasing. These modes equate to the two most popular HDTV resolutions and will work natively on today's HDTV sets. Xbox 360 will also work fine with standard definition (SD) sets, however, and will supposedly convert the video to the proper resolution and quality level on the fly.
The Xbox 360 console sports three standard USB ports and will use wireless controllers that will also work with Windows-based PCs. You can connect as many as four wireless controllers at a time. The Xbox 360 will ship Wi-Fi ready and can be upgraded with a 20GB external hard disk that clips to the side of the unit. Xbox 360 will support multichannel surround-sound output.
Microsoft will back the Xbox 360 with a new version of the Xbox Live gaming service, which will be split into two service levels. Xbox Live Silver won't require a subscription fee. Xbox Live Silver users will be able to compete on the Internet with other gamers, for free, on weekends and take advantage of other Xbox Live features. Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be able to compete online every day of the week and access exclusive Gold-level membership benefits, including upgrading existing Xbox Live accounts to the new service.
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Yawn!!!
Anonymous User May 10, 2005 (Article Rating: )
Just who is this person who "Yawn!!!"'s at your every article? Maybe he doesn't have any other job to do.
Anonymous User May 10, 2005 (Article Rating: )
I dont care about specs xbox specs suck *** and it has damn good graphics...i want to see a game trailer or screenshots or somthing!
Anonymous User May 10, 2005 (Article Rating: )
way better than the Sony in the game, and onliine department. Even if they come out with "cell" how much better than a triple core process can the thing be? Sony game are a bunch a gay anime pieces of crap. and what do you mean yawn, what more do you want it to do? Reach out and scratch your but
Anonymous User May 10, 2005 (Article Rating: )
Sony and "The Big N" will trance this hyped up piece of PC crap!! Thats all it is and its slower than todays crop of PC's. This is so not exciting or new or revolutionary. Its a tipical Microsoft Copy&Paste rip off because they cant *** up with anything new themselvs!! The only good thing is the Silver membership, its strang of MS to offer anything for free!!
Does anyone know whether MS is loosing as much money on the new XBox as it did on the old one??
Anonymous User May 10, 2005 (Article Rating: )
Way to steal the iMac and iPod colors, looks like a cheap dell mini tower to me.
No HD-DVD or Blu Ray drive?!
Lame.
Anonymous User May 10, 2005 (Article Rating: )
ALL YOU ******* WHO SAYING ITS **** GET A ******* LIFE RIGHT YOUR JUST HATERS AND WILL PROBILE SUE MS FOR MAKING AN UGLY XBOX 360 CUZ U HAVE NOTHING BETTA TO DO!!!!! EVERY 1 ELSE WHO LOVES ROCK ON YEHHHHHHHH XBOX RULES PLAYSTATION SUCKS. Way to steal the iMac and iPod colors, looks like a cheap dell mini tower to me.
No HD-DVD or Blu Ray drive?!
Lame. YO WHAT U SAID IT 100% RIGHT THEY COPY EVERYTHING MS ROCK ON APPLE. LOOK AT LONGHORN IT LOOKS LIKE OS X FFS MS STOP COPYING U SAD *******
Anonymous User May 10, 2005 (Article Rating: )
ALL YOU ******* WHO SAYING ITS **** GET A ******* LIFE RIGHT YOUR JUST HATERS AND WILL PROBILE SUE MS FOR MAKING AN UGLY XBOX 360 CUZ U HAVE NOTHING BETTA TO DO!!!!! EVERY 1 ELSE WHO LOVES ROCK ON YEHHHHHHHH XBOX RULES PLAYSTATION SUCKS. Way to steal the iMac and iPod colors, looks like a cheap dell mini tower to me.
No HD-DVD or Blu Ray drive?!
Lame. YO WHAT U SAID IT 100% RIGHT THEY COPY EVERYTHING MS ROCK ON APPLE. LOOK AT LONGHORN IT LOOKS LIKE OS X FFS MS STOP COPYING U SAD *******
Anonymous User May 10, 2005 (Article Rating: )
If you ever read the news you'd know that Sony decided to hold of on incorporating blu ray into the PS3, so that really isn't an issue here.
Anonymous User May 10, 2005 (Article Rating: )
**** all you dumb *** ****** who think that the this wont be the next biggest thing in gaming history. Its obivious that that mac owns the looks but MS owns the power. And this consol is going to turn out to be awsome beast. I also love the sound of free xbox live. That is the way to go. Way to go MS. Cant wait to be the first to play your awsome consol
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