I must say I got my latest Electronic Gaming Monthly in the mail yesterday and they had a write up on the XBOX 360....This is one pimpin box.....
I am so torn on wether im getting this or the PS3.....
Released around Christmas.....I guess we know the MUST HAVE christmas toy this year....
Buy a few and hock em on EBAY...you just might make a few bucks....
When all the stores are sold out....Your EBAY auction will sell THROUGH THE ROOF....
Check out the 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

Physical Specs Height: 83 mm
Width: 309 mm
Depth: 258 mm
Weight: 7.7 lbs.

System Orientation Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates Interchangeable to personalize the console

Nice copy and paste job.
You could have just as well linked to it instead.
I personally wont be buying this because it is 400$
I CANT AFFORD THAT.
I cant even afford a gamecube currently.
Also I heard rumors of games going to cost 70$.

BLEH....
Linking means that people have to LEAVE the site....
Besides what did you want me to MAKE UP the specs...hahaha man


I just wanted to discuss the specs...Which are impressive...
I have heard there will be some watercooling involved here...
Any details on that?
400 is about par for what the gear costs...People paid as much for other systems at first release....

Quote: Originally Posted by Digital-World BLEH.... Linking means that people have to LEAVE the site.... Besides what did you want me to MAKE UP the specs...hahaha man I just wanted to discuss the specs...Which are impressive... I have heard there will be some watercooling involved here... Any details on that? 400 is about par for what the gear costs...People paid as much for other systems at first release....

Who needs links.....I have pic's....Why leave:pSWEEEEET!

I want to see what the PS3 looks like...........

Yea, but from the pics ive seen of it, there is only two contoller slots. This is bad to me ,unless ur selfish, cuz if i would buy it, then the my whole block would be playing it cuz its $400. Holla at me if u know if there is more than two slots or if they will have a splitter thing, (forgot wat its called) to make if four players or even more.






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Quote: Originally Posted by Hazy Yea, but from the pics ive seen of it, there is only two contoller slots. This is bad to me ,unless ur selfish, cuz if i would buy it, then the my whole block would be playing it cuz its $400. Holla at me if u know if there is more than two slots or if they will have a splitter thing, (forgot wat its called) to make if four players or even more.

You can connect 4 controllers coz the controllers are wireless for the 360 I know coz I help test them in november last year

Having a hard time swallowing that 400 dollar price tag this christmas for my boys...thats for sure....
However the 400 dollar deal seems much better then the core system...including the hard drive, extra controller...etc.etc....

Only the REAL desperate will buy the core system...or the really DUMB....Speaking off...doesnt it launch in like 4 mins now?

My retarted brother is waiting outside of Bestbuy to get his.
I call him retarted because it is Winter in Colorado, and it gets pretty cold.
Whats even worse than that was he showed up more than 24 hours early, and there were about 30 people ahead of him and when I showed up to give him some supplies, there were atleast 100 behind him.

I actually read an article earlier today (I think it was today) that Sony is going to lose a lot of ground to Microsoft. Apparently, MS is going all out on this release.

I've looked into getting the $400 system and just might after Christmas.

Rob

i have mine pre-ordered and will (as per EB Games manager) get one during the 2nd shipment. I'm #14 or #15, so i think its pretty certain I'll be getting one at least by Friday or next Tuesday.

Yeah, the Premium bundle ($400.00 version) is a steal. Hard drive costs 99.99, Wireless controller costs 49.99, headset is 19.99, and DVD remote is also 19.99...so, thats almost $200.00 extra that you would pay if you just bought the core system and then bought the accessories included in the Premium package seperately....

Pretty good in my mind.

Though, my friend stood in line this morning before work and was 40th in line....and they only had 39 Premium packages...so, he got the core and bought the wireless controller and a recharge kit...and is going to find someplace selling the HD cheap somewhere else...

Stopped by Wally World on the way home tonight and casually asked if they had any in stock. The lady told me that they got a total of 11 units (just the core package) and they had 50 people waiting in line.

Way to go, Microsoft.

Rob

It is now December 8th...and i still have not received my pre-ordered XBOX360. I have discovered that I'm either #3 or #4 on the 2nd shipment list...so I should be recieving a call from them at any time now...

I'm beginning to wonder though. When they said "shipments every week" I'm beginning to feel that they meant

1st Week: US
2nd Week: Europe
3rd Week: A little more to the US
4th Week: Japan
5th Week: ahhh...everyone...