Full Details Of XboX 360 And XboX Live 2

Aside from these specs, the XboX 360 will come with a head set to use for XboX Live 2 (which will be installed on all XboX 360) and a new camera for EyE Toy type games. There is word that there will be 2 diffrent types of XboX 2. One with a hard drive and Windows Media Center and it will include a Windows Media Center remote. The other will be a cheaper hardless, Windows Media Centerless plain ole "game" console. Few things to notice, the fact that there will be a FREE version of XboX Live, also on the "mod chip" front, with the removable hard drive bay, 3 USB 2.0 slots, and 512 DDR ram, this thing is gonna be sweet once it is moded! With 512 DDR ram, emulators will run flawlessly and the 3 USB 2.0 slots will be perfect for pluging a keyboard and mouse to add Linux to the XboX 360.

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 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

that is sooooo fake!
well, i coud be wrong so i can't say MUCH but...

1st, free on weekends is like giving away MORE money. In 2004 some presentation in Boston, Microsoft admitted that they are losing millions and millions of dollars by sellling Xbox 1st generation, and they said that they will start to see the profit on 2nd generation. and they are giving away more free stuff..?

well, maybe it's trying to compete with Nintendo's free online (or Wi-Fi LAN) services but i don't think that's a good move for the company. (though i would LOVE to see some free Xbox Live )


next generation games might cost more for consumers bcuz it cost whole a lot to develope. they say that the game price might be around $70 if you want kickass graphics and etc..


and 'all games supported 16:9, blah blah blah..'

of COURSE they'll. it's trend.
the part that doesn't make sense is that it's upto the game developers whether they wanna make it 16:9 or not. Today's consoles already support these; PS2 and Gamecube also supports 16:9.. 720 and 1080 is different story but it'll be still upto the developers. it's not like, game developers makes a game and Xbox 2 'magically' turns it into 16:9 , 1080i.


well, other than those, some of the specs look pretty realistic though.. especially for the Xbox Live, i really wish it was true..

totally fake. WTF is the purpose of Silver if it doesn't support multiplayer online gameplay!