EVERYTHING Xbox 360

[W1nTry]

Ok so I put a slightly misleading topic heading... actually I didn't I did say Behind the scene. In case you are confused and living under a rock. The Xenon or Xbox 2 or X box 360 or whatever is going to be run on a PowerPC (aka IBM aka apple CPU) derivative and on an ATI gpu. So when u think about it... what u really have is a suped up G5 in a smaller case perhaps? The pics show the Xbox development kits that were sent out to game deveopers notice its a (glares in SHOCK... bah) G5 with MS stickers all over it... go figure. Take a look:




If u understand german (I think its german) the site is here:
http://www.macned.nl/news.php?id=1835

[zwitch]

isn't Mac also allies with Nintendo?

[Jdcrys_Shinkuu]

i found that system here
http://www.apple.com/powermac/

hoax or not??

[shivadee]

i think its officially X360

[Exar_Kun]

The Cell processor in the PS3,that will make the Xenon look like a 286SX, is also a derivative of IBM's G5 chipset.

[TriniXaeno]

lol @ 286sx
doesn't microsoft own shares in apple?

[disciple]

hmm. is this the real thing?

http://www.betanews.com/article/Official_Xbox_360_Image_Leaked/1114223015

[TinyGrasshopper]

this thing looks sexy enough to be designed by apple. looks genuine, considering apparently it was "leaked" from ourcolony.net

[mrmodem]

actually the ps3 and xbox will have similar processor(s) ... multiprocessors to be exact.. last i checked the two systems will have  THREE 4.5 ghz PROCESSORS....  daz power for u..

[shivadee]

You can have how much cell chip and processors you WANT.  And the PS2 is living proof of this, power doesnt make a system successful

[zwitch]

looks photoshopped

[W1nTry]

If it looks like it could have been designed by apple then maybe it was :p rem the development kits were G5's... maybe MS realized that apple has what it needs to make sexy looking products that sell...

[Jdcrys_Shinkuu]

waste of good Processor power if u ask me. i mean d pc still pwns!!!

[Jdcrys_Shinkuu]

in that case the design looks stolen iwmc ... lol

[W1nTry]

LOL @ Shinkuus last post. Well I agree with the PC having all the power and enough titles to keep me here for a lil while longer... however with the onset of the Next gen consoles.... it'll become INCREASINGLY difficult to port these games to the PC... so for all we know the PC market may start to suffer... (just thought that up as I was posting...). To back the point I just made, look at how long it takes a game to be ported to a MAC. Consider now that the Xbox2 and Next Nintentdo system are basically G5 tech and the Cell well thats even more of a stretch games on the whole for consoles will be greatly different than a PC. So it may take a whole year or MORE (i'd count on more) to port games now, IF they even bother to pay to overhead to make the port... ah well.. time to get a console it would seem.

[shivadee]

Of course i know many of you guys watched the unveiling of the X360 last night. My 2 cents. I have to see more to be very certain. I am impressed with the glitzy intro, no doubt MTV is reknowned for that. THats why i dont watch the d#mn station anymore

I think the system has nice features. The most noticeable thing i saw was wireless controlers. Something very cool.  I dont think the power and a/v system is wireless, doubt it. But the controls have been redesigned, for the better. The black and white buttons are now like the L2 and R3 buttons on the PS2 controler. There is a main menu button on the controler as well

Yes its got power, its got ability and all that. All that stuff is very nice. i like it. But to be honest look at this gens systems. p!ssing and moaning over resolution and capability is now pretty pointless. Its just done for the sake of argument. But to put something on the table www.gametrailers.com has quite a few vids of the XBOX games to be released. I tell you this much, the graphics mimic that of the TOP OF THE LINE PC games today. You are seing details on weapons, details ont he characters, lighting and effects like PC games today. The SOUND is amazing, AI looks fantastic in a couple of the launch games.


And mind you, this is LAUNCH games. This is BASELINE graphical capability of the system. Very interesting to see what happens next. Yes I belive i am going to have to dedicate an entire day to waiting in line at E3 to play the Perfect Dark demo (if there is one) and the Half Life 2 demo for the regular XBOX. Very psyched for this E3. Think its gonna be a great rival fest.

[ProtoJoe]

Impressed with the intro? Its a game release, not a concert! But yea the 360 has potential, but, so far, it nothing special to me. I hope that it turns out better, but in the mean while, I still have my fingers crossed for the ps3.

[TriniXaeno]

are the details official now? rest some on meh chest!

[shivadee]

THis doh mean nuttin to me, but...

Xbox 360 System Performance Specifications
Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU    

    * Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
    * Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
    * VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
    * 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
    * 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance    

    * 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor    

    * 10 MB of embedded DRAM
    * 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
    * Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance    

    * 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate    

    * 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA

Shader Performance    

    * 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory    

    * 512 MB of 700 MHz GDDR3 RAM
    * Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth    

    * 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
    * 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
    * 21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance    

    * 1 teraflop

Storage    

    * Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive
    * 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
    * Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O    

    * Support for up to four wireless game controllers
    * Three USB 2.0 ports
    * Two memory unit slots

Optimized for Online    

    * Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies, or listening to music
    * Built-in Ethernet port
    * Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g
    * Video camera ready

Digital Media Support    

    * Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
    * Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs
    * Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive
    * Custom playlists in every game
    * Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
    * Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers

High-Definition Game Support    

    * All games supported at 16:9, 720p, and 1080i, anti-aliasing
    * Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported

Audio    

    * Multi-channel surround sound output
    * Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio
    * 320 independent decompression channels
    * 32-bit audio processing
    * Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation    

    * Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates    

    * Interchangeable to personalize the console

[TriniXaeno]

OMFG!! Those specs are the pwnage.

Only wish it had 1gb of RAM. That would have been complete and utter uber-ism.