Anybody gonna watch the Xbox next unveiling tonite on MTV?

[Gorganzola]

I am. Just curious about what it will do besides play games...and of course, what kind of improvements over the last gen.

It's a little late (starts at 6:30 pdt, 9:30 eastern) to post predictions, but
my guesses:

Multimedia center
Web browsing
Blu-ray or other high density disc and 1080i games
higher price

[yoda313]

Hi,

Nope - no cable....

Kevin


If it can do media streaming WITHOUT hacking I may buy it as soon as it comes out. I usually wait for the first price drop of a console before I buy. But if it has wifi media and TIVO I'm in! I like my XBOX and I'm sure the next will be good as well.

Kevin

[CuCuy]

What an utter waste of time it was watching this show. I've seen better info-mercials for juicing machines. Absolutely no system specs, stupid celeb game-offs, sparse glimpses of actual games, and two performances from some band called The Killers. It's clear that there won't be any meaty reporting of 360 until after next week's E3 convention.

EDIT: Check out this thread.

[shelbyGT]

Hey now... The Killers are awesome. Kind of surprised me that MTV actually had a decent band for once.

[Faustus]

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/factsheet.htm

Here are you specs:

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU

* Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
* Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
* 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 20GB 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 48KHz 16-bit audio
* 320 independent decompression channels
* 32-bit audio processing
* Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation

* Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates

* Interchangeable to personalize the console

Wow they must be planning to lose a TON per unit with these specs. either that, or the price will be like a bajillion dollars.

[Gorganzola]

What an utter waste of time it was watching this show. I've seen better info-mercials for juicing machines. Absolutely no system specs, stupid celeb game-offs, sparse glimpses of actual games, and two performances from some band called The Killers. It's clear that there won't be any meaty reporting of 360 until after next week's E3 convention.

You took the words right out of my mouth. E3 coverage starts Monday on G4 tv.

[yoda313]

Hi,

WOW!!! WHAT SPECS!

KEvin