[JungleMonkey]

if ther'es one thing i love its a good video game. an d xbox has dethroned playstation. check out thes stats

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU

• Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
• Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
• One VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
• 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
• 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance

• 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor

• 10 MB of embedded DRAM
• 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
• Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance

• 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate

• 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA

Shader Performance

• 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory

• 512 MB of 700-MHz GDDR3 RAM
• Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth

• 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
• 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
• 21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance

• 1 teraflop

Storage

• Detachable and upgradeable 20-GB hard drive
• 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
• Memory unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O

• Support for up to four wireless game controllers
• Three USB 2.0 ports
• Two memory unit slots

Optimized for Online

• Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
• Built-in Ethernet port
• Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g
• Video-camera ready

Digital Media Support

• Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
• Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs
• Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive
• Custom playlists in every game
• Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
• Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers

High-Definition Game Support

• All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
• Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported

Audio

• Multi-channel surround-sound output
• Supports 48-KHz 16-bit audio
• 320 independent decompression channels
• 32-bit audio processing
• More than 256 audio channels

System Orientation

• Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates

• Interchangeable to personalize the console

[bluetree]

it's never the machine, it's always the gameplay. who makes the best games always wins.

[ffwrx]

But looking good never hurt.

[bluetree]

very true! that new xbox design is awesome, not to mention the graphics it will rock out.

[bluetree]

i just found out that the xbox 360 release date is on my birthday! maybe i should treat myself

[Nathan]

How does the selection of XBox games compare to those of Playstation? Are all the good games made for both formats?

[bluetree]

Originally Posted by Nathan

How does the selection of XBox games compare to those of Playstation? Are all the good games made for both formats?

as far as a family game, i think dance dance revolution is pretty cool on xbox. i prefer halo but that's not really for family time. it's my understanding the playstation library is the largest. but quality and quality are two very different things. it's long been my opinon that nintendo is the platform of choice for families. the games tend to be less violent as a whole but more importantly nintendo's games are often better in quality. there are more kid friendly games, there are more innovative puzzle games, there are rich RPGs that are fantasy and kid oriented, etc.

[cocotbo]

This may be a dumb question, but will the XBox 360 play the original XBox games or do we have to upgrade our whole collection?

I bought a dance pad and planned to get Dance Dance Revolution for a little fun with my hubby's XBox but now he wants to upgrade to a 360 and the last thing we need is an extra game system around the house.

[KatyDid]

Originally Posted by cocotbo

This may be a dumb question, but will the XBox 360 play the original XBox games or do we have to upgrade our whole collection?

I bought a dance pad and planned to get Dance Dance Revolution for a little fun with my hubby's XBox but now he wants to upgrade to a 360 and the last thing we need is an extra game system around the house.

Their are supposedly some copywrite issues, but microsoft is "busy" ironing out the legal issues. Different design company used on 360, or something.
Bill Gates has to protect his billions.

[MrsMaryland]

the xbox 360 dethrones the playstation??? i think not.

don't get me wrong. i looooooooooove my xbox, but so far, there was no need to upgrade. all of the games they make for the 360, they also make for the xbox... and for playstation... so i mean what was the point?

halo 3 is said to be released exclusively for xbox 360, until then i'll continue to enjoy my original xbox.

also the xbox 360 is competiton for the playstation 3, not the playstation 2. and in comparison the ps3 wins in my opinion.




(i know this thread is old... i'm just saying)