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Xbox 360 Revealed?
Topic Started: Saturday Apr 23 2005, 03:52 PM (211 Views)
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http://xbox.ign.com/articles/607/607001p1.html

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Late Friday afternoon, a purportedly leaked image of the new Xbox 360 appeared on the Net, giving gamers their first potentially real look at Microsoft's soon-to-be-announced next-generation console.

Multiple images have appeared on the Web in the last month, all with claims to be the next Xbox 360. The last included a wild-looking console box partially surrounded by a quarter-circle handle. That image was actually a sneaked photograph from a Microsoft office and the alleged console was held by Microsoft's Vice Corporate President J Allard. The image, while possibly real, looked more like a prototype than a final console. This new image looks intriguingly more like an actual final model for a number of reasons.

Microsoft normally doesn't comment on rumors or speculation, so while a few phone calls were placed, it was much too late in the day to reach a representative to comment on the image.

Leaked onto a forum Friday, April 22, -- and not related to the Microsoft "ourcolony" viral campaign -- this image shows a Macintosh-esque, TiVo-like console with a silver metallic shell and luminiscent green outline. The general shape is that of a PC with soft edges, and subtle concave lines. It's also quite small. Much smaller, in fact, than the current, Cadillac-style Xbox. To get a feel for how small it is, the DVD-tray looks more than half the width of the entire console compared to the current console, containing a disc tray that's smaller relative to its larger width and depth.

The face shows two Memory Units A and B, plus a black I/O port, theoretically for the RF controllers. Instead of the multiple green swirls shown in previous Microsoft ads, a large green circle appears on the right-hand side. And a round-edged sliding disc tray appears above the memory units. And, in line with information spread to us from developers, the unit appears as if it could sit horizontally or vertically, like Sony's PS2 unit.

The leak is interesting for a couple of reasons. Normally fake images are produced in RGB, and they have been, so far, low-res images. This image is in high-resolution, plus it's formatted in CMYK, a printable format, suggesting it could have come from an asset disc. Additionally, the image corroborates the design ideas we've heard about, with the system looking more similar to a PC or a TiVo than a console system. Even more so, there are RF slots for wireless controllers, memory slots not contained on the controller, and the console lacks four controller ports, as we were told.

As with anything leaked on the 'net, this image could also be a complete fake, and some sneaky online artist is drinking beer and laughing his ass off at all the speculation. Or it could be the real thing and Microsoft is again trying to find the informant.



Ok....take a look at this:

http://media.xbox.ign.com/articles/607/607...mg_2735955.html

You really think this is real? I doubt it. It looks too much like a high pixeled photoshop picture of what the next xbox might look like. But this picture right here got to me...

http://xboxmedia.ign.com/xbox/image/articl...22071730404.jpg

Well you'll have to click on it to see it since it's way to big to view in here. I still think this is a prototype of the console. I'd like to know how many wireless controllers can be used at once on this thing too.

I also found this too....

http://media.xbox.ign.com/media/692/692807...5sec_wmvlow.wmv
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I wouldn't believe anything about next generation systems until they're actually released.
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Got an update on this. Well the look may indeed be the final look.....my source has just passed on some pics he digged up of what may be the final look of Xbox 360:


http://img.engadget.com/common/images/1488407751772606.JPG

http://img.engadget.com/common/images/1387385638449262.JPG

http://img.engadget.com/common/images/8390...093567823500259

http://img184.echo.cx/img184/2264/cord0eo.jpg

http://img244.echo.cx/img244/9095/83907313175637292tl.jpg

http://img258.echo.cx/img258/834/ps2vsxbox25xh.jpg


Alright.....first of all I dig the wireless controller. If i'm right, Xbox 360 will be the first console to have wireless controllers. An idea that Sony is looking at...and as usual...they'll copy/steal it becuase they can't make anything orignal that means something for their console.

There's a button on the remote that could let you record TV on the 360 with the HD. So we know there will be a HD version of the console.

The USB port on the bottom of the controller will let you connect it to a PC.

See the comparsion.....interesting. My source also tells me that perfect dark zero was shown off in some presentation. So I guess you don't need to watch MTV after all....THANKS TO ME!!

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The Gamecube was the first system to have wireless controllers and those pictures look ugly. Go back to the green.
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The Gamecube was the first system to have wireless controllers and those pictures look ugly. Go back to the green.

Sorry...I meant to say that Xbox 360 will be the first console....to launch with wireless controllers.

I think they chose this color becuase...they wanna go after Sony's fans and the market.
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Yeah, these pictures do look legit. Compared to the previous XBox, it's a pretty drastic change. You go from big, bulky console to a dinky looking thing. I don't see why they had to change the controllers like that. I would have been satisfied with a wireless controller S. Well we'll find out during the actual revealing.

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Here's more info on Xbox 360...straight from my source!!

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



You talk about a beast of a machine....... :o :o :o
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That is one nice machine. I can't wait!
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Here's more info on Xbox 360...straight from my source!!


Good to know he's still on the GAF. Xbox 360 super-thread from me incoming ...
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In other words your gonna post a big thread about the 360 right???
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I can't wait!
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We'll see if e3 changes my stance on the Xbox 360......
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That's some pretty impressive gaming power, but I'll probably try out all three of the new generation machines before I buy one for sure.
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"Microsoft announced that Square Enix, a longtime partner with Microsoft rivals Nintendo and Sony, will be bringing Final Fantasy XI to the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live."
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"Robbie Bach, senior vice president and chief Xbox officer in the Home and Entertainment Division at Microsoft, made Xbox fans around the world happy when he announced that the 360 will indeed play Xbox games."

I'll get the free XBox live ... im so happy !!! :wacko:

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Yeah I saw that during the press conference. And of course....it WILL be backwards compatible to Xbox 1 games...that was expected anyway.
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I was reading on how the backwards compatible thing would be really hard. I think that it might be a software emulation, or something like Xbox on a chip. It's pretty much impossible to make something as different as the Xbox and Xbox 360 compatible with each other. The Xbox was an x86 (Intel x86) system with an nVidia graphics card. The 360 is a PPC (PowerPC 64) system with an ATI graphics card.

I would really like to know how they pulled off getting it to work. Software, or hardware?
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I don't know....but could Xbox 360 really be the most powerful console.....and was sony just lying about PS3's power?? I'll let this link explain....and you can decide for yourself.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/617/617951p1.html
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