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Xbox 360 & Next-Gen Live Specifications Leaked

Posted by Zonk on from the some-tasty-gaming dept.

Tim Grube writes "Gaming Horizon is reporting that the Xbox Live 360 specifications and console specifications have been leaked. Xbox Live on the next generation is said to have two version, a free one and a subscriber one. The Xbox 360 iself will have a DVD-RW, be Wi-Fi Ready, contain 3 USB ports, and have 512 GDDR3 RAM."

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  1. Specs - scary specs. by Destoo · · Score: 4, Informative

    live specs are at the bottom. Sorry for the KH post. It seems I need more characters per line.

    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

    Xbox Live, 2 types:

    Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required) and Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

    Features for Gold service
    * Also for Silver # Also for Offline

    - Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
    - Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
    - Free Xbox Live weekends *
    - Multiplayer online gameplay
    - Avatar for gamer profile * #
    - Motto for gamer profile * #
    - Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #
    - Offline achievments * #
    - Online achievements *
    - Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live *
    - Cumulative gamer score * #
    - Location/language profile * #
    - Reputation *
    - Enahnced matchmaking using above
    - Skill level matchmaking
    - Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
    - Recent players list *
    - Free and premium download game content *
    - Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *
    - Downloadable demos/trailers *
    - Microtransactions *
    - Custom playlist in every game * #
    - Play music from portable devices * #
    - View images from digital camera * #
    - Strem media from Windows XP * #
    - Interactive screen savers * #
    - Track info for CDs * #
    - Communication with voice, video or text *

    --
    Nouvelles de jeux et technologies en français. TC
  2. Not a DVD-RW drive by TD-2779 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Support for DVD-R/RW does NOT means a DVD-RW drive.