xbox 360

[yamangman]

Shame for all those who like it keep their consoles in cupboards/cabinets tho.

It might be Radio like the current XBOX DVD remote.

[beanbandit]

Looks good, although I think I'd prefer a silver one.

From what i've read the covers are inter-changeable so you should be able to select the colour of your choice. If thats not available, then get a can of car paint and change it yourself. Wonder if Nokia are watching

[Pirate Pete]

have we had the confirmed specs for the xbox 2 and a idea of a release date?

i really like the look of it to be honest

im thinking of getting one (whenever it comes out)

[Yohji]

I really don't like the name Xbox 360... It just sounds odd.

And it's white. *shock horror*. At least if that is the final design, it's not as big as the first table. I mean Xbox.

[beanbandit]

have we had the confirmed specs for the xbox 2 and a idea of a release date?

i really like the look of it to be honest

im thinking of getting one (whenever it comes out)

I don't think MS have officially released the spec's, i think its been leaked by dev's. As for release date Bill Gates confirmed that it will come out this year in America & Europe, probably October/November. My money is on November.

Don't forget that MTV will have the first official showing of Xbox360 next Thursday in the states, we get it on Friday 8pm. Channel 440 for Sky viewers.

[spazman]

Great im at work when its on.

[Nick F]

I bet it will be out in America for a good couple of months beofre we get a release date. Still I will be getting some for sure

[iMc]

I never by consoles as soon as they come out, they are usually half the price 6 months later.

[Nick F]

I brought the first xbox when it came out, on the first day actually then they dropped the price after 2 months. Full credit to MS though, I got two free games and another joypad for free

[Nick F]

Looks like someone leaked the specifications.

Days before Microsoft is due to air a special event on MTV across the world, specifications for the next generation Xbox have been posted in full online. Amongst the details leaked is word of two Xbox live services, a silver free service and a gold paid service.
"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."

The leaked specs confirm lots of the rumors we saw over the last few months.
The specs say the Xbox360 will have support for 4 wireless controllers and the console will have 3 USB2.0 ports. The DVD drive will be a 'simple' DVD9-drive, with support for these formats: DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD. The detachable 20GB HDD will be included by default from the information we received (atleast in the 'full' package). We also got some sources telling us the Xbox360 will come with Wi-Fi 802.11 A, B and G support.
The Xbox 360 face plates will be customizable to change the appearance.
All games will have full support for the 16:9 format , 720p and 1080i HDTV (Max resolution: 1920x1080) and anti-aliasing.

Xbox360's IBM CPU will have 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each with 1 MB L2 cache. Each core has 2 hardware threads and one VMX-128 vector unit. Enough to boost an impressive 9 billion dots per second.
The ATI GPU will run at 500MHz with 10 MB embedded DRAM (256 GB/s memory bandwidth) and contain 48 parallel floating-point shader pipelines.
System memory will probably be 512MB of GDDR3 RAM (at 700 Mhz) with 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth and 21.6GB/s frontside bus bandwidth.
The Xbox360 will also have a mulitchannel surround output.

Sounds really good

[Tobeman]

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.

[Nick F]

sounds cool, cant wait for this now, got a current XBL sub, it might be worth picking up a cheap 12 month sub and then activating it just before they launch xbox360.

[Howard]

www.xbox360.com


It's beautiful. I am gonna buy one as soon as it's released....

It'll be around £180. A couple of the games that will be available for it on release look good too

[iMc]

www.xbox360.com


It's beautiful. I am gonna buy one as soon as it's released....

It'll be around £180. A couple of the games that will be available for it on release look good too

£180! I bet its more. PSP is that price. I would have thought it would be around £300.

[faisal_uk]

i think it will be around $300 for the normal xbox with 1 controller/leads, and more for the extra pack with hard drive/remote/controllers (some people saying this will be $360!).

not sure what they will do over here, but most likely it will be £300 (i think thats what the original price of the xbox was?)

[autopilot]

Is there something wrong with me? I mean, I really can't seem to get myself excited about this new Xbox at all. If it has PVR fuctionality I may buy one in a year or so when the price comes down. Even if it's better than a PC on release, PC's will take the lead again after a few months. Release games are never as good as the games that come out when the a console and developer skills mature.

The other thing, how many people have HD-TV's? I bet we will be on the xBox 720 before they become more mainstream.

Also, wireless controlers are a fantastic idea and are the future for gaming input devices, but I still hate the xbollox controlers. Wonder if sony are planning a WiFi Dual Shock pad? Would be nice to use them on a PC too.

Sorry, a bit negative I know.