Microsoft Xbox 360 Specifications Leak

[asmithz]

>> Seems like some new Xbox Live info and the final Xbox360 hardware specs have been leaked on the internet, courtesy the next issue of Play magazine.
From Neowin.net (http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=28290&category=main):


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. 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.

You'll know if all above is real and more in a bit more then 3 days ;)

News-Sources & Read the full leaked specs on Neowin.net (http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=318457), GamesAreFun.com (http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=4844), Engadget.com (http://engadget.com/entry/1234000267042765/) and ve3d.ign.com (http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/611/611295p1.html)

[Spicker]

:w00t: :lookaroun :naughty: :naughty: :naughty: :naughty:

Holy Crap there is no way that the xbox 360 is going to be anywhere around 400$ USD with all that stuff in it :01: :lookaroun

[NeoTheOne]

LOL ima get it the first day lol Just for the new technology

[asmithz]

Thats what there saying, many people say it will be $400. I really think they couls sell it for more.

[Spicker]

Thats what there saying, many people say it will be $400. I really think they couls sell it for more.
i doubt that the specifications are correct :01:

i mean which dumb ass is going to give u 3 cores with 3.2ghz one each for 400$ :blink:

and GDDR3? :lol:

just think about it...

plus i heard the 20gb is a laptop hdd? which costs more than a regular hdd... :01:

[erRor67]

damn, Mp3, jpeg and wma support? Talk about a media center. Damn, even supports many disk types too. I really wanna see the PS3 specs cause im a PS fan, not an XBox fan.

[asmithz]

Well, remember when the xbox came out. Microsoft was complaining that they were loosing $400 on each console they sold becuase thats how much the GPU cost. There making it bulk, witch makes it cheaper.

[asmithz]

damn, Mp3, jpeg and wma support? Talk about a media center. Damn, even supports many disk types too. I really wanna see the PS3 specs cause im a PS fan, not an XBox fan.

Yeah they want to replace all media devices with this.

[suprafreak6]

oh dang i though xbox was going to get beat down by ps3 but im glad my fav xbox is going to win mostlikly

[asmithz]

Not really, the PS3 is going to be more powerful, But thats by what Sony says.

[Spicker]

heres a question...

how are u going to cool all that stuff :01:
:lol:

[asmithz]

Ehh, i dont work for Microsoft so i cant begin to answer that. They were saying since the chips are getting smaller, there getting easyer to cool. I am not sure, but i hope to god it dosent sound like my xbox. Since i modded it and need a bigger fan, and i can hear it all the time.

[twister]

dude wireless controllers :D:D:D:D
NOS MoDE!!!!!111
YES

dude im waiting in line for that mofo when it comes out first day baby

[ziggyjuarez]

I cant wait for a friend to buy this because im gonna buy a ps3.But this sounds good also.

[ready1]

old news

[cpt_azad]

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet :D

xbl will be free to anyone on weekends? now we're talking, but this means i'd have to buy legit xbox 360, no hot merch here :(

and i seriously doubt it'll be 400, more like 700+

[colt45joe]

old news

but...this info came out on the 9th of may... :/

[asmithz]

but...this info came out on the 9th of may... :/

Well this info has already been rumored. This is more like confirmation of the rumors.

[Filliz]

http://www.xbox360.com/

http://msxb.wmod.llnwd.net/a274/o2/ourcolony/TheColony_v1_750k.wmv

[Formula1]

no way will i buy this if its 400$, same thing with the ps3.. bullshit, i'd wait till it dropped to something like 200$ lol :P

[GepperRankins]

just watched the thingy at gametrailers. there's nothing that hasn't been big on pc's for the last 5 years :mellow:

[h121589]

damn look at the screenshots of xbox 360
hXXp://screenshots.teamxbox.com/gallery/1141/Xbox-360/p1/

[{I}{K}{E}]

First game screenshots:

DoA
http://www.factornews.com/seenews.php?n=13214

dunno if they are screenshots or full motion video shots

[ziggyjuarez]

I expected more out of it then this,how about you mike?

[peat moss]

Hey fellas I hear the demos are played on a Mac .Pretty smart of Microsoft me thinks .

Link: http://news.zdnet.com/Xbox+360+demos+running+on+Macs/2100-1040_22-5706658.html?part=netscape-zdnet&tag=mynetscape&subj=technews

[peat moss]

just watched the thingy at gametrailers. there's nothing that hasn't been big on pc's for the last 5 years :mellow:




I know what you mean . This is a game machine not a computer. Still pretty impressive tho ! Removable hd, 1 mg L2, cache 500 mgh video , yikes . :ohmy:

Hey I love the wireless controlers tho . :01:

Oh forgot about the three cores running at 3.3 mhz ?

[GepperRankins]

i hope they charge up :fear:

[{I}{K}{E}]

I expected more out of it then this,how about you mike?

1. my name isnt mike.
2. not gonna buy a gamestation, so I never followed the progress of those things :P

[GepperRankins]

1. my name isnt mike.
2. not gonna buy a gamestation, so I never followed the progress of those things :P
i think i'm pretty much a pc bummer now. the only console thing that excites me is the nintendo revolution pad that's been compared to a "stressball" by a nintendo insider.

there's a few games obviously.

another thing that's cool about revolution is apparently the broadband service will be fully featured and free, so the multiplayer gaming and community will compete much better with PCs than anything i've seen so far :snooty:


all this provided the "nintendo insider" isn't a lying poopyhead

[ziggyjuarez]

1. my name isnt mike.
2. not gonna buy a gamestation, so I never followed the progress of those things :P
:unsure: i was not talking to you.

[Duffman]

I read theres going to be some sort of water cooling, and the wireless controllers look like they have a mic port built in too. Plus M$ will loose a crap load on the consols and make a shit load on the games. They know what there doing.

[{I}{K}{E}]

:unsure: i was not talking to you.

who's mike?

[ziggyjuarez]

who's mike?
He a forum member.Got off your high horse :ermm:

[SingaBoiy]

He a forum member.Got off your high horse :ermm:
I dont see anyone in here with the name mike :huh:

[asmithz]

h121589 mabey ?

[asmithz]

http://pictures.xbox-scene.com/4/xbox360/usb_memcard.jpg

USB memory cards :)

[Duffman]

I wonder how the security on this thing will be, will it be modded easily, or are they gonna have a shit load of ways to be all anti mods?

[asmithz]

I think it will be hacked in the first month, by the looks of it microsoft wants it to get hacked so they make more money.

[watermanon]

They said they want you to customise it so whats more custom then adding a bigger hdd and avalunch.But they do loose in the longrun because they know most people will not buy the games because they will just get them from the introweb.I wonder what they will do.

[asmithz]

Im talking about there customizing thing, theres more to modding an xbox then putting games on it. Plus theres home brew stuff.

[watermanon]

customizing is not hacking.hacking is making something do what its not supossed to do.

[asmithz]

did i say hacking? I said modding.



Xbox360 console and controller flash skinner
Peerx made 2 flash scripts that allow you to see how the new Xbox 360 console looks like with different colors and skins. More interactive, skinnable, 3D modeled versions are coming soon.
http://www.360-scene.com/faceplate_skinner/
http://www.360-scene.com/controller_skinner/

Something cool to check out i gusse.

[twister]

will the controllers rumble now that they run on batteries?

[asmithz]

Of course, they cant take that out. It makes a big differance in gaming.

[watermanon]

I think it will be hacked in the first month, by the looks of it microsoft wants it to get hacked so they make more money.
uh i think you are misstaken.

[watermanon]

lets just end this before we end up in 10 pages of back and forth.

[asmithz]

Ehh, my bad i meant Modded not Hacked :P

By the way welcome to the forum, and seeing one of my many mistakes.

[GepperRankins]

...

where's the passion gone?

i just watched all the xb360 clips at gametrailers. have i stopped caring or did nintendo start a trend of uninspiring prelaunch hype with the DS? (with the exception of metroid prime, which i'm still waiting for :fist: )

[Rick Phlegm]

Why bother with silly things like marketing when you know everyone's going to buy one anyway?


Besides, the games industry needs to save all the money it can atm. The console's going to be sold at a loss and the games will be even more costly to develop.

[Peerzy]

customizing is not hacking.hacking is making something do what its not supossed to do.


Im pritty sure MS consider chipping an xbox to be making it do something that it wasn't supposed to do.

Seeing as MS loses money on the console they need game sales to boost profits, and with chipped xbox's all arround no ones gonna buy games, which mean MS is losing even more money.

Unless MS want that to happen :)

[Rick Phlegm]

Unless MS want that to happen :)
Maybe Uncle Bill's feeling the burden of all that cash and wants to relieve himself of some of it :lol:

[GepperRankins]

i'm not just talking about marketing. where's the originality? why aren't they trying to make me anticipate playing these games?

all i'm seeing is old games on what look like the same old engines with more polygons, we already have enough polygons to play these same old games. i want something new, i want to want to play a game.

surely there's something they can do. put a better geomod in a decent game? really use broadband effectively?

[Rick Phlegm]

I know what you mean. The MTV special was a joke, and the only glimpse of gameplay I got was a fps game that looks just like every other fps game.

They need another big, new game to promote it, like what Halo was for the original Xbox.

[cpt_azad]

I know what you mean. The MTV special was a joke, and the only glimpse of gameplay I got was a fps game that looks just like every other fps game.

They need another big, new game to promote it, like what Halo was for the original Xbox.

Ghost Recon 3, if you havent seen w/e seconds of footage that's out there i suggest you go check it out, along with the preview at IGN and Gamespot + pictures. Cannot wait for that game to be released, it looks insanely good.

[GepperRankins]

Ghost Recon 3, if you havent seen w/e seconds of footage that's out there i suggest you go check it out, along with the preview at IGN and Gamespot + pictures. Cannot wait for that game to be released, it looks insanely good.
but what's new? it just looks like call of duty 2020 :unsure:

[asmithz]

but what's new? it just looks like call of duty 2020 :unsure:

COD is FPS, Ghost Recon is 3rd Person. Anyways, I am not looking forward to this game, lost intrest in any other Tom Clancy's gemes other then Splinter Cell.

[GepperRankins]

i meant as in the effects and stuff. i presume the gameplay is the same as before but another step closer to arcade gameplay

[asmithz]

Just pointing out a differance, but i totaly agree with you.

[maebach]

I think ill buy it the first week it comes out..

[Spicker]

ill buy it the day someone makes a working modchip for it :)

[asmithz]

Then your missing out. If live and everything works out, there wont be a point to mod it. Also you can always buy two, one not modded and one when they firgure out how to mod it.