News - Xbox 360 specs and next-gen Xbox Live details blowout!
Posted by
Josh Freund
at 02:09:22 PM EST on 5.9.2005.
The controller, the camera, the headset, the camera, and even the console itself...there have been a lot of Xbox 360 leaks so far.
Now, it seems a full list of Xbox 360 specs and Xbox Live details has been leaked. This list comes from a thread on the Team Xbox forums (the thread has since been deleted), and the TXB poster originally got it from another un-named forum.
2 types of Xbox Live:
Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)
Features for Gold service
(S) Also for Silver
(O) Also for Offline
- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) (S)
- Free Xbox Live weekends (S)
- Multiplayer online gameplay
- Avatar for gamer profile(S)(O)
- Motto for gamer profile (S)(O)
- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide (S)(O)
- Offline achievments (S)(O)
- Online achievements (S)
- Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live (S)
- Cumulative gamer score (S)(O)
- Location/language profile (S)(O)
- Reputation (S)
- Enahnced matchmaking using above
- Skill level matchmaking
- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
- Recent players list (S)
- Free and premium download game content(S)
- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv (S)
- Downloadable demos/trailers (S)
- Microtransactions (S)
- Custom playlist in every game (S)(O)
- Play music from portable devices (S)(O)
- View images from digital camera (S)(O)
- Strem media from Windows XP (S)(O)
- Interactive screen savers (S)(O)
- Track info for CDs (S) (O)
- Communication with voice, video or text (S)
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
To sum up the important stuff regarding XBL:
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.
This info seems pretty legit, and some insiders have confirmed that this is indeed a real leak. At this rate, you have to wonder if Microsoft will have anything left to reveal at the MTV unveiling on May 12. :p
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drakken 5.10.2005 at 11:53:22 AM
Whoa, neat article picture. :)
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dswhore 5.10.2005 at 12:18:54 AM
Once again wolvenone I completely agree with your comments.
But I have a few question, anyone feel free to answer: (I have never used XBOX live, so these questions may be a bit n00bish)
Concerning Silver subscriptions:
-It's free on weekends, does that mean you can't access Live any other time? (If you can, is it a pay as you go thing in place of a subscription?)
-The Skill level matchmaking feature, does that mean if you are on a silver subscription - you might be a newcomer and you might get matched against a pro?
And I just want to comment that I am loving the video talk feature (woot at the camera)
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wolvenone 5.9.2005 at 11:53:10 PM
Well, I hope that Nintendo and Sony up thier RAM as well. I'd like the next gen of consoles to be as evenly-matched as possible so that the game companies will have to focus on gameplay rather then graphics.
Besides, the more similer they are the easier ports will be. With each console using roughly the same architecture we may actually get ports that play well on every console.
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drakken 5.9.2005 at 11:17:17 PM
Everyone can relax now. He has been taken care of.
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bloodix 5.9.2005 at 10:39:38 PM
someone please ban this idiot...im sick of his fanboy issues
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ahm3d3sa 5.9.2005 at 10:21:04 PM
YAWN.... this s*** is disappointing as usual...
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bloodix 5.9.2005 at 10:18:49 PM
im glad there doing this. Free XBox live on the weekends is a nice treat! That and Nintendo Online free(all the time) is very nice
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def 5.9.2005 at 08:52:03 PM
Free Xbox live out of the box (even if its only on weekends) is a very attractive thing for me. I was never really sold on "online console games" so I never bought Xbox LIVE or played any of my ps2 games online... but now that LIVE is free on weekends... it's a huge thing for me.
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proppat 5.9.2005 at 06:06:50 PM
I'd bet that Microsoft just recently stealth upgraded the amount of RAM in the 360 due to the recent crash in the price of RAM modules for manufacturers. As a side note, we can expect RAM prices to steady off in the near future due to recent accusations that top RAM chip manufacturers have been purposely fixing their prices for some time now.
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wolvenone 5.9.2005 at 05:29:10 PM
Well, the "word on the street," is that the basic version won't but that the pro version will. I suppose we'll find out for certain next Thursday.
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dmgice 5.9.2005 at 05:08:15 PM
But... is it backwards compatible?
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wolvenone 5.9.2005 at 03:55:22 PM
Well, I doubt Nintendo or Sony would completly scrap thier system designs because of Microsoft. However, little things like the amount of RAM are somewhat smaller changes so it's not all that unresonable for some small aspect like that to be changed around.
Something we must also keep in mind that the game developers have a pretty good idea what each console looks like, as such, Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft, all probably have a good idea of what thier competitors machines are capable of.
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badoor 5.9.2005 at 03:31:25 PM
too bad to those people who work on weekends :( .
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ferratus 5.9.2005 at 03:07:23 PM
It seems as when more info is leaked, the competition attacks that and adds it to their console. 360 looks nice right now, but with the year between it and the other consoles, it could be the underdog this generation allowing Nintendo and Sony to take the specs on the 360 and make it better.
But just as I say to everyone. Wait until E3.
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beever 5.9.2005 at 02:54:49 PM
"7. Wi-Fi ready"
Imagine that.
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flassh81 5.9.2005 at 02:30:16 PM
Sounds good. Though I wish as a current "Gold" member now that I could get a discount on the system when it comes out. Even if the price is 300 bucks or so, thats just to much loot for me. How long to price drops usually take? A year or so?
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wolvenone 5.9.2005 at 02:22:31 PM
Interesting.
The folks on Wikipedia have long been adament that the PS3 would only have 256MB's or RAM. However, now that Microsoft has upped the RAM in thier machine, I can't imagine that Sony wouldn't try to match them. After all, thier machine is coming out a year later, thats a handicap in and of itself, another handicap in the spec department would REALLY hurt them.
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