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no firewire 1394?
Damn.
The guts:
They will also be giving Xbox Live free on the weekends.The 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
Goodbye, PC gaming.
no firewire 1394?
Can I get mine modded with a toaster?
Last edited by E20; 05-12-2005 at 09:25 PM.
They do realize we only have ten fingers, right?
They've gone too far with the PS3 controller. At this rate, kids are going to need an Associates to figure out how to turn the damn thing on.
If you ask me, video games were just as fun when you only had to worry about A, B, Select, and Start.
Man, imagine the possiblities!! Both these systems are so powerful and have internal hard drives that with one quick mod you would never have to buy a game, instead just upload it to you HD and BAM!
Also on the PS3 those pics are all fakes., Sony announced that all pics flowing over the internet are fakes and the PS3 will be revealed at E3 later this month.
Last edited by E20; 05-12-2005 at 09:36 PM.
that ps2 controller looks stupid
how could u possibly make use of those extra trigger buttons
I'm going with a Nintendo Revolution, no doubt about it. XboX 2 is actually Xbox 1.5 and the PS3 is for graphics s/tech geeks who don't care about the gameplay.
"If you ask me, video games were just as fun when you only had to worry about A, B, Select, and Start"
That, and saving the princess from the scary big dinosaur
Nintendo hasn't made anything worth buying since the 80s.
I didn't look into links cause I'm swamped here at work
whats the going prices for these monstrosities??
jeez if I want a PS3 or this new X Box will I have to go give up an Organ now?
So, this new XBOX is a new generation all together, or simply a regular Xbox on steroids?
I've fallen so far out of gaming man..
Thanks for the link, foofida.
"The PlayStation 3 is expected in 2006, while Toshiba plans to incorporate it into high-end televisions next year."
TV w/ a built in PS3? That'll be pretty slick.
Video games suck.
Plans change (Toshiba)...
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5...=zdfd.newsfeed
I don't know why everyone is freaking about games with better graphics are going to suck. Nintendo is falling out of the race between Microsoft and Sony.
Link
Gaming hits next level with Xbox 360 By Mike Snider and Steven Kent, USA TODAY
Fri May 13, 6:19 AM ET
Microsoft fired the opening salvo in the war of the next-generation videogames Thursday night by unveiling the successor to the Xbox on an MTV special.
Sleek and off-white, the new Xbox 360 system looks like an iPod on steroids. Scheduled to arrive before the holiday season (no price set), the Xbox 360 will usher players into what Microsoft calls the "third stage" in the evolution of games - one of high-definition images and larger environments to be explored through greatly expanded multiplayer and online games.
"Remember going from 2-D games to 3-D? We're going from today's 3-D worlds to high-definition worlds that really will look like a movie or television show," chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach says. All games will be in HD, but only HDTVs will show them at highest quality. Microsoft estimates that 100 million homes worldwide will have advanced TV sets by 2008. "That is going to lead to fundamental changes in expectations, and Xbox 360 is going to deliver."
By releasing Xbox 360 this year, Microsoft hopes to leapfrog Sony, which is expected to announce plans for next year's successor to the PS2 next week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in L.A. "Sony was dominant in terms of market share this round. It's going to be hard for them to match that (again)," says David Cole of DFC Intelligence. "With Microsoft getting out first, it's going to be more of a level playing field."
Nintendo also will reveal plans for its new system, Revolution, due in 2006. The system will support wireless Internet and play DVD movies plus current GameCube games.
No word yet on whether the Xbox 360 will play current Xbox games. If not, that would disappoint many of the devoted 20 million Xbox owners who will want to play their old games on the new system. And retailers may not be thrilled about devoting space to a fourth console game system (including the current Xbox, PS2 and GameCube), along with the growing lineup of portables (Nintendo's DS and Game Boy SP, plus Sony's PSP), says Richard Doherty of The Envisioneering Group.
Beyond that, the added detail needed for HD games may tax developers and divert resources from making games for other systems this Christmas. "Artists do want to see this higher quality, but it is adding to the cost and time of developing a game," Doherty says.
And Sony's next system is expected to have twice the power of the Xbox 360, so Microsoft may not be able to siphon off many Sony fans. "It may not be the full giant step the PS2 was from the PlayStation," Doherty says, "but it certainly marks the beginning of a new era of games designed to be richer ... and to depend on multiplayer gaming as their main mode: not you vs. the machine, but you vs. a friend."
One Xbox 360 game in development from Rare, Perfect Dark Zero, supports up to 64 players at a time. Most current games top out at 16.
"In every transition, processing power and memory take a certain level of jump," says Glenn Entis, chief visual officer of Electronic Arts, which is examining the possibilities of the new technology. Environments will be more lifelike - you'll see leaves on trees moving in golf games, and the ball will behave differently when hit out of varying degrees of rough. Athletes' faces may be so well defined that "you will start to read the eyes of NBA players, so that head fakes and no-look elements become a part of the game," he says.
Microsoft appears to be on the right track, says John Davison, editorial director of Ziff Davis' videogame magazines. "It's debatable about whether we really need another Xbox right now, but there's no denying the excitement about 360."
I don't think Nintendo can ever truly fall out of the race in video games ever. They are just too important for video gaming that I doubt people would let them. Without Nintendo, none of us would be here talking about gaming like this.
Nintendo is to video games as Magic/Bird is to the NBA. They may be long gone, but they can never be forgotten. Nintendo put video gaming on the map, and Magic/Bird put the NBA on the map.
Personally, I'd take a Xbox over a Playstation anyday of the week. Xbox's graphics have always been better and the games have been better too.
What games does the X-BOX have that the PS2 doesn't besides Halo and Doom. It doesn't really matter Microsoft even admitted they got creamed by the PS2 and are hoping with the early release of the X-BOX 360 they'll do better and I'm talking about the Game Cube (Ninentdo's company) that's a pile of crap except Resident Evil 4 all the les are about Barney strikes back or Mario 3D.
X-Box 360
Does the cute asian girl come with the X-Box?
Remember Sega?
Sega was off the ing hook. I loved getting in arguements when I was 8 saying that the Genesis PWND ALL!
Halo is reason enough to get the XBOX.
sega was where my madden education began. lotsa love there.
i'm set with the current xbox. i'm not going to blow that kind of money on a new system when i only play one game and less and less often.
i'm sure the costco demo that is sure to be setup will take the form of a little demon on my shoulder though....
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