Gamespy Reveals Xbox Next Specs

Gamespy's reporters have been on the ground at the GDC, and managed to wrangle specifications for Microsoft's upcoming next-gen console. From the article: "Xenon's CPU has three 3.0 GHz PowerPC cores. Each core is capable of two instructions per cycle and has an L1 cache with 32 KB for data and 32 KB for instructions. The three cores share 1 MB of L2 cache. Alpha 2 developer kits currently have two cores instead of three."

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"HD-DVD drives will be too expensive"

[Bulln-Bulln]

But three 3GHz PowerPC CPUs are not expensive? Oookaaayyy.....

IMO the same mistake as Nintendo did with GameCube's disks. Seems that a PowerPC CPU is not the only thing MS copies from Nintendo.

Your truly stupid or got a bad memory

[SmallFurryCreature]

Why? Because VHS and DVD and CD are all brands. At one time you had both VHS and V2000 and betamax trying it JUST like the console wars of today. In those days if you walked into a video store you were often restricted in your choice of movies depending on wich brand player you had.

Oh and at the same time you also had laserdisc competing and of course the even older format of simple film reels.

That you now think of DVD or any of the others as a standard format independent of brand shows you either got a very short memory span or just don't pay much attention. For a more recent example look at the different formats depending on brand that DVD burners came in.

In the days of betamax you could pretty much count that every sony movie also came out on betamax. You are also far more likely to find sony music available on minidisc.

Further more your suggestion would ruin competition. The PC is like this were it doesn't matter wich brand PC I got I can play most games for the PC platform.

Sadly this also means an awfull lot of PC games are still compatible with old hardware. Consoles don't come out all at the same time and so will have very different hardware capabilties. I prefer my games to make the most of the hardware. Not for them to limit themselves to the most restricted console out there. The most obvious restriction being memory or the presence of a harddisk. Just because 1 console would not have a harddisk we would still be in the days of savepoints vs save anywhere on consoles like the x-box?

Your argument is both not true and would limit game developers. Just ask youreselve this. Is it a waste of shelve space for a supermarket to carry both Coca Cola and Pepsi? It is called choice. I prefer having it.