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Secondo il sito cinese Unika.com, le specifiche qui di seguito saranno quelle del Revolution, la prossima console di Nintendo:

  • CPU: IBM G5 Custom x 4 2.5GHz cores, level 1 cache 128KB, a level 2 cache 512KB share

  • GPU: RN520 x 2core 16MB eDRAM, PC R520 AMR technology supports 720p and 1080i.

i dati vanno ovviamente presi con le molle, non c'è niente di ufficiale.

A pochi giorni dal lancio, continuano a uscire notizie e anticipazioni, più o meno vere, su Xbox 360. Oggi è il giorno delle specifiche ufficiali della console:

2 types of Xbox Live:

Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)

Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

Features for Gold service

(S) Also for Silver

(O) Also for Offline

- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360

- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) (S)

- Free Xbox Live weekends (S)

- Multiplayer online gameplay

- Avatar for gamer profile(S)(O)

- Motto for gamer profile (S)(O)

- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide (S)(O)

- Offline achievments (S)(O)

- Online achievements (S)

- Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live (S)

- Cumulative gamer score (S)(O)

- Location/language profile (S)(O)

- Reputation (S)

- Enahnced matchmaking using above

- Skill level matchmaking

- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)

- Recent players list (S)

- Free and premium download game content(S)

- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv (S)

- Downloadable demos/trailers (S)

- Microtransactions (S)

- Custom playlist in every game (S)(O)

- Play music from portable devices (S)(O)

- View images from digital camera (S)(O)

- Strem media from Windows XP (S)(O)

- Interactive screen savers (S)(O)

- Track info for CDs (S) (O)

- Communication with voice, video or text (S)

The Hardware:

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