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Kitchenware looks and a horrible name.

I supposed we'll get used to it.

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Here's another pic, a close-up of the Xbox 360 power button. Is the console skinnable? I definitely don't want something that looks like a skateboard in my living room...

Attachment: 4348135256956558.jpg
This has been downloaded 109 time(s).

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http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?...0&category=main

quote:
"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."

The XBox 360 CPU is said to have 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz a piece, 1MB of L2 Cache and single VMX-128 vector unit per core. The ATI graphics processor will run at 500MHz and contain 48 parallel floating-point shader pipelines. System memory is expected to be comprised of 512MB GDDR3 RAM and have a FSP capable of shunting data around at 21.6GB/s.

Microsoft is also rumoured to support DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, and JPEG Photo CD in the new XBox 360 optical drive. Clearly a big step forwards from the original Xbox.


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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 (read: Altivec)
- 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

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9:30pm on MTV Thursday night is the debut of the new Xbox.

Elijah Wood hosts it, The Killers and Snow Patrol perform, and a bunch of stars attended.

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Not many big surprises left, or so it seems

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Btw, I heard that the Xbox 360 will be off-white. Source: a tech journalist here talked to one of his sources at Microsoft.



And the color of the chassis is important because . . . . .?

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And the color of the chassis is important because . . . . .?


Man, you dug up an old post... The color of the chassis is somewhat important to some (like me), very important for others (like Verto) and not important at all for others (like you). What can I say, looks do matter for some of us

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Well when I posted for the first time, that was also the first time I even opened the thread at all.










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http://media.xboxfront.com/xbox360/xbox360.wmv

Video of the Xbox 360, courtesy of MTV Europe.

The black wireless antenna = teh w00t

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Tired of ads?

I'm guessing MTV Europe already showed the special (which is going to be on 9:30 tonight on MTV)?

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I don't think they have, it looked like a promotional clip.

Canada gets it tomorrow (on CTV), so I reckon they'd be similar.

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Supposedly screenshots of Dead or Alive 4, an Xbox 360 launch title in November:
http://images.hosteol.com/news/120505160920_12big.jpg
http://images.hosteol.com/news/120505160856_11big.jpg
http://images.hosteol.com/news/120505160744_6big.jpg

Remember that the background isn't pre-rendered...it's fully 3D. The level of detail is amazing, and that's the actual resolution the final game will run at as well.

Note the banner in the last pic says "Congratulations on the Xenon Launch"...Xenon being the codename for Xbox 360.

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Sweet.

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2 more of DOA4:

http://images.hosteol.com/news/120505160721_4big.jpg
http://images.hosteol.com/news/120505160638_2big.jpg

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I don't think they have, it looked like a promotional clip.

Canada gets it tomorrow (on CTV), so I reckon they'd be similar.


Do you get American TV? I'll let you know if the MTV special is worth anything... though I bet you'll have 5 minutes of XBox and 15 minutes of 'cool' musac and commericals, but probably worth it just the same .

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Don't forget to tell him if there's any word about the rumoured Tom of Finland skin for the Xbox 360.

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Do you get American TV? I'll let you know if the MTV special is worth anything... though I bet you'll have 5 minutes of XBox and 15 minutes of 'cool' musac and commericals, but probably worth it just the same .

I don't have TV/cable here.

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Man, you dug up an old post... The color of the chassis is somewhat important to some (like me), very important for others (like Verto) and not important at all for others (like you). What can I say, looks do matter for some of us


Frankly, it could look like a refurbished See 'n' Say, and I wouldn't care as long as it performed.

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Well it definetly looks smaller and lighter than the previous XBox. So at least that's good.

Now for some random band singing.... ugh. Show the controllers and games... bah!

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Which band is it?

The Killers.
Snow Patrol.

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Yeah, it was the Killers... I just went back to the internet until they 'reveal' more stuff.

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All of the info has probably been leaked from there.

They said the "juicy" stuff is coming on the May 16th pre-E3 press conference bonanza @ 6pm.

They need to counter the Sony hype from their conference at 3pm that day.

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BTW...I heard that Nintendo's upcoming online service will work sorta like a social network...where you can only play within people you know IRL...?

That sounds like Nintendo, but WTF.

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Now they are showing game footage... or prerendered stuff (like Madden). It probably isn't game footage (yet).

At least it looked cool .

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That means it's kid-safe. That's Nintendo for ya.

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The Madden Next-Gen commercial stuff supposedly was running on Xbox alpha hardware, according to EA anyway. It came out a mont hor so ago.

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Heh... prototypes look fun. The faceplates are sweet.

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Yeah, but they admitted that it wasn't actually gameplay.

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What do you mean prototypes look fun?

Is that some kind of feature, or the Xbox 360 prototypes.

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The XBox 360 prototypes. They showed a bunch of rejected prototypes for the machine.

 
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