Xbox 360 Specs [quote]

2 types of Xbox Live:
Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
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 *

360 HW:
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

I like the idea of a free Xbox Live on the weekends, I can wait until then to download stuff and play a few live matches.

Damn sounds sweet I can\'t wait i new it would have 512mb of ram

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

wanna give us the link to that.

m$ gonna lose a ton of cash, lol

now im definatly buying an x box 2.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Yup, XBox Live sounds very solid. I love the idea of Silver service. Nice move on their part.

And yeh, it\'ll probably cost them a chunk, but oh well. Take advantage of it.

[Evi]

Take advantage of it.

Damn straight.

Originally posted by mm
m$ gonna lose a ton of cash, lol

What what do you expect the ps3 to have inside? Second hand parts?

[clips]

damn...free weekends? that\'s like my cell phone plan....gotta give it up to microsoft on this one, they are really droppin\' bombs on the indusrty..s**t sony better come back with some type of option to counter it. and they better get their online s**t together too..

"Free Xbox Live weekends" - to me that sounds like some weekends could be free (like a trial or whatever), not necessarily that ALL weekends are free. Dunno.

The specs sound pretty much like I\'d expect them to be, so no \'WHOA < insert Keanu Reaves pic >\' from me. Although I find it odd how it says detachable HD, and only 20 gb. The pics (if real) said 40 gb. Also, why would you want to be able to detach your HD? Only really makes sense if you have to buy it as an addon.

But official specs would be nice.

Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
wanna give us the link to that.

Link

Not official.

Originally posted by Samwise
"Free Xbox Live weekends" - to me that sounds like some weekends could be free (like a trial or whatever), not necessarily that ALL weekends are free. Dunno.

The specs sound pretty much like I\'d expect them to be, so no \'WHOA < insert Keanu Reaves pic >\' from me. Although I find it odd how it says detachable HD, and only 20 gb. The pics (if real) said 40 gb. Also, why would you want to be able to detach your HD? Only really makes sense if you have to buy it as an addon.

But official specs would be nice.

Probably MS already sees excessively high manufacturing costs for the console as it is without the HD.So I believe they may prefer to sell it without a HD to maintain a certain price without losing much and a 20GB HD as an extra instead of a 40GB so it will be cheaper for the consumer to buy it.

Originally posted by Unicron!
Probably MS already sees excessively high manufacturing costs for the console as it is without the HD.So I believe they may prefer to sell it without a HD to maintain a certain price without losing much and a 20GB HD as an extra instead of a 40GB so it will be cheaper for the consumer to buy it.

OR the specs are BS rumours, but close to the real deal.

OR the specs are BS rumours, but close to the real deal

But the size of the hdd could have been scaled down to make things cheaper. A 40gb or even higher could always be sold seeing that the drive is removeable.

I think the 20gb drive will come with the system