xbox 360 being revealed today

[[CAKE]anonymity]

For those who dont know, microsoft is revealing the xbox 360 tonight on MTV, or CTV (in Canada). I cant tell you where in Europe. My friend who works in a video game store told me some things that the microsoft rep told his staff. It comes with wirless controllers and wifi capability to. Removable hard drive slot that comes with a 20 gig HD (40 gig also available). Here is the interesting part, xbox live. They are going to have 2 packages, gold and silver. Silver is free, but your only allowed to play on weekends. If you want to play during the week you have to upgrade to gold. Also Xbox live accounts are being transfered over as well. Which leads me, and my friend to believe they will have cross compatibility. There was a picture taken from a camera phone of the xbox 360 that was leaked and that is what its going to look like. The controller however is a prototype, so that might change. I dont have time to dig up a picture now, but I'm sure its easy to find. This is all i know and before the actual unveiling so this information is subject to change.

[Gwarsbane]

Here is the info that has been going around and seems to have been deleted on a few official sites

http://www.mektek.net/forums/index.php?act...=ST&f=1&t=39472

http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1986

Now for the hardware specs a.k.a. numbers:


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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

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




There! They are pretty legit - confirmed by people in the know at Gaming-Age Forums to be 100% "real and final" *and* furiously deleted from every thread at TeamXbox.

[Power and Glory]

None of that really technical stuff will be on this show tonight. It will mostly be like an informercial trying to grab the casual gamers interest.

Monday night will be the really good stuff and all of next week.

[Gwarsbane]

Toms Hardware on the Xbox 360

http://www.tomshardware.com/game/200505121/index.html

[[CAKE]anonymity]

They didnt really go into as much info as I would have liked, but I did get to see some video footage, which was in game. I didnt get to see the controller even tho I really wanted to. Their live market idea is really cool to. It lead me to believe that I will be able to get stuff like mudvayne tshirts for my character in tony hawk. It's also supposed to be fully backwards compatible with xbox.

[Power and Glory]

Anon check out the Ourcolony vid. That is actually more in depth than that MTV special was. Also www.xbox360.com is the official site. You can rotate and zoom in on the console and the controllers.

[[CAKE]anonymity]

Well at this point, I can safely say, I want one.

[Squish]

This only happens every once in a while, we get to get all hyped up again about a new console coming out:P

[Quickening]

I can't wait!!!!!!!!!

[Desperado]

PS3 is gonna pwn that...xbox 360
Xbox 360 is friggin huge
I might be wrong tho, it might be better
:mellow::mellow:

[[CAKE]anonymity]

Both of them are gonna be great.