the official XBOX 360 news thread

[hello_SC4 1]

Okay, guys, you've taken this a bit too far. The section for this sort of stuff is the Other Games Talk, NOT the Off-Topic.

[Dupontfan24 0]

This thread will be for all things 360, it will have news, release dates, games, hardware info, every thing about the 360 you'll need to know. All the info posted here by me if from Official xbox Magazine and  www.xbox.com

Hardware info...

 

CPU -  3.2 GHz tri-core PowerPc derivative with SMT

 

CPU transistors -  165million on 90 nanometer

and processes

 

CPU performance -  115.2  GFLOPS

 

GPU -  500MHz custom ATI chip

 

memory bandwith -  22.4 GB/s

 

polygon performance -  500m/sec

 

pixel fill rate -  16G/sec

 

Shader performance -  24G/sec (128 bit)

 

Hard disk -  upgradable and removable 20GB ( 40GB avalible)

 

conectivity -  Ethernet and 802.11A, B G wireless

 

total memory -  512 MB GDDR3 RAM

 

I/O -  wireless game controller x4

         3 USB 2.0 slots

         2 memory unit slots

 

audio Channels -  more than 256

 

Suround sound -  Dolby Digital 5.1

 

DVD playback -  yes, built in progressive scan

 

HDTV support -  yes

 

maximum resolution -  1920x1080

 

 

(I have no idea what any of that means, i just copied it from the magazine)

 

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360 games ( games marked in green come out on 360 launch day)

 

Project Gotham racing 3                Full Auto

 

Tiger Woods 2006                          Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3

 

NBA live 2006                                 Call of duty II                   

 

Ninety-Nine Nights                         Kameo: Elements of Power

 

The Outfit                                       Gears of War

 

Condemed                                      Perfect Dark Zero

 

Quake IV                                        Oblivion

 

Need for Speed most wanted        The Godfather

 

Test Drive Unlimited                      Dark sector

 

Demonik                                         The Darkness

 

Alan Wake                                      Possession

 

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360 suspected Launch date (not yet official)

 

November 15 2005

 

exactly four years to the day after the launch of xbox 1

 

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CORE System

-price $299

 

includes:    360

                   1 wired controller, 1 wireless controller

                   composite AV cable

                   Silver Xbox live membership (free, upgradable to gold)

                   xbox live headset

 

 

Regular system

-Price $399

 

includes:    360

                   2 wireless controllers

                   removable 20GB hard drive

                   HD AV cable

                   silver xbox live membership (free, upgradeable to Gold)

                   xbox live headset

                   Ethernet cable

                   media remote

 

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360 Accessories                                   Price

 

 

Face Plates                                           $19.99

 

wireless networking adaptor               unknown

 

xbox live camera                                 unknown

 

quick charge kit                                   $ 39.99

 

Play and charge kit                              $19.99

 

xbox live head set                               unknown

 

wireless controller                               $ 39.99

 

64 MB memory card                              unknown

 

Media remote                                        unknown

 

 

 

 

 I'll have pics of all the accessories in a later post, there will be more posts , with further info.

 

[your_adress_here 11]

Yay, more 360 info!

[Dupontfan24 0]

Date: 8/30/2005 2:44:13 PM Author: hello_SC4 Okay, guys, you've taken this a bit too far. The section for this sort of stuff is the Other Games Talk, NOT the Off-Topic.

hello_SC4: woah, calm down it was an accident on my part, sorry.

your_adress_here: thanks for the reply

 

also, I don't want this thread turning into an argument over which console will be better. So all those fans of the PS3 and Revolution, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it!

 

 

YAY, 150TH POST!!!

[hello_SC4 1]

Heh, I wasn't angry or anything. It's just that because I allowed one (and only one) thread about the price of the Xbox to be in the Off-Topic it looked like a whole barrage of Xbox threads was about to be launched.

[horrorkid64 0]

Here's some news about the Xbox 360:

360 Buckling Under PhysX
PS3 can handle it; 360 features, however, are limited.

As Valve demonstrated with Half-Life 2, true-to-life physics can have a lasting impact on gameplay, and next-generation should prove that notion even more so. Ageia hopes to cash in on this trend with their PhysX line of physic-dedicated accelerator cards, of which BFG Technologies was recently announced as second add-on card partner.

What's interesting, however, is how this plays out between PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. At the European Game Developers Conference, Extreme Tech noted that the company confirmed plans to offer software-based rendering for single and dual-core PCs, PCs decked out with PhysX chips and software versions for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

That makes sense to offer development solutions on all platforms, but what's interesting is Ageia's report that Xbox 360 can't handle all of the PhysX's features because of architecture limitations. PhysX offers technologies ranging from physical object interactions to fluid-based particle effects like water and smoke and reportedly only PS3 and PCs will be able to handle all the goods.

What will Xbox 360 miss out on? PhysX's fluid-based technology. How exactly that impacts Xbox 360's future is for all intents and purposes minimal, but it's strange to see a split between the two machines after such rabid debate over which one had the edge.

From here .

[hummer0328 6]

Date: 9/3/2005 9:43:31 AM
Author: horrorkid64
Here's some news about the Xbox 360:


360 Buckling Under PhysX

PS3 can handle it; 360 features, however, are limited.


As Valve demonstrated with Half-Life 2, true-to-life physics can have a lasting impact on gameplay, and next-generation should prove that notion even more so. Ageia hopes to cash in on this trend with their PhysX line of physic-dedicated accelerator cards, of which BFG Technologies was recently announced as second add-on card partner.


What's interesting, however, is how this plays out between PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. At the European Game Developers Conference, Extreme Tech noted that the company confirmed plans to offer software-based rendering for single and dual-core PCs, PCs decked out with PhysX chips and software versions for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.


That makes sense to offer development solutions on all platforms, but what's interesting is Ageia's report that Xbox 360 can't handle all of the PhysX's features because of architecture limitations. PhysX offers technologies ranging from physical object interactions to fluid-based particle effects like water and smoke and reportedly only PS3 and PCs will be able to handle all the goods.


What will Xbox 360 miss out on? PhysX's fluid-based technology. How exactly that impacts Xbox 360's future is for all intents and purposes minimal, but it's strange to see a split between the two machines after such rabid debate over which one had the edge.


From here .

quote>

Your above article was actually from a statement from aegia taken out of context.

Here is aegia's response to the reports of xbox 360 having not enough power to run ageia's physics engine unlike ps3 and high end pcs becuase of its weak architechure. Posted in teamxbox forums.

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The summary of the information below is that AGEIA would like to go on record that we do not have data to support performance comparisons for the PS3 or Xbox360 that would impact any of our physics features. Specifically, statements that the Xbox360 cannot run fluid simulations are not correct. In addition, conclusions about relative performance should not have been stated or implied in our presentations.

Our recent presentations created confusion and debate. Please allow us to clarify the statements we made and correct inferences in things we did not say.


Tom Lassanske is one of the lead AGEIA technical people working with developers. The presentation that caused this issue was given at several conferences, including Microsoft GameFest. The presentation at GDC Europe was presented by one of the European staff, not Tom.


The summary of the section of the presentation is below.


The middle section of the 58-slide presentation is all about how platforms with different processor configurations can map to physics simulation, ranging from single core PC to platforms with more processors. A developer requires at minimum

[horrorkid64 0]

Date: 9/4/2005 6:30:31 PM
Author: hummer0328

quote>
Your above article was actually from a statement from aegia taken out of context.