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XBox 360 Pictures and Details

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I guess slipped up and allowed a preview viewing of their new system. People were supposed to keep it a secret, however some didn’t and the information leaked onto the internet. Here is what I’ve heard…

The Xbox 360 will be unveiled in a special show on MTV on May 12. Leaked Xbox 360 specs and Xbox Live details via Ployer. It’s said to come with customizable and the design, this time around, is much nicer. Other devices that appeared in the shot include a headset and a Web camera.

2 types of Xbox Live:
Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

Features for Gold service
* Also for Silver
# Also for Offline

– Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
– Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
– Free Xbox Live weekends *
– Multiplayer online gameplay
– Avatar for gamer profile * #
– Motto for gamer profile * #
– Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #
– Offline achievments * #
– Online achievements *
– Access to other players’ Gamer cards via Live *
– Cumulative gamer score * #
– Location/language profile * #
– Reputation *
– Enahnced matchmaking using above
– Skill level matchmaking
– Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
– Recent players list *
– Free and premium download game content *
– Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *
– Downloadable demos/trailers *
– Microtransactions *
– Custom playlist in every game * #
– Play music from portable devices * #
– View images from digital camera * #
– Strem media from Windows XP * #
– Interactive screen savers * #
– Track info for CDs * #
– Communication with voice, video or text *

360 HW:
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

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