Tomorrow night at 9:30 PM EST on MTV, the next-generation Xbox (which is more than likely going to be named Xbox 360) will be revealed to the world. With it being so close, I can't think of anything to do, except wait with baited breath and hope that the show won't be made up of 15 minutes of celebrity bullshit and then 5 minutes of actual gameplay and footage of the console itself, although I think that is going to end up being the case.
Anyways, while we're all waiting for the special and the first concrete details on the next Xbox, check out a few of the specs on Xbox Live and the console itself that I snagged on the Team Xbox forums.
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 readyCustom 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 cacheCPU Game Math Performance
– 9 billion dots per secondCustom ATI Graphics Processor
– 500 MNz
– 10 MB embedded DRAM
– 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
– unified shader architectureMemory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
– 700 MNz DDRMemory Bandwidth
– 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
– 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
– 21.6 GB/s frontside busAudio
– Mulitchannel surround sond output
– Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
– 320 independent decompression channels
– 32 bit processing
– 256+ audio channelsOf course, all this stuff isn't confirmed, so take it all with a huge grain of salt. If true though, very good things indeed are coming.
-Jack
