Xbox 360 Fact Sheet
May 2005
Product Overview
The
Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system places you at the center of the experience.
Available this holiday season in Europe, Japan, and North America, Xbox 360
ignites a new era of digital entertainment that is always connected, always
personalized, and always in high definition.
Xbox
360 gives you access to the games you want to play, the people you want to play
with, and the experiences you crave—when and where you want them.
Key Highlights
●
Hardware, software, and services: Unveiled to
the world on MTV on Thursday, May 12, 2005, Xbox 360 represents a
dramatic leap forward in high-definition gaming and entertainment experiences. Fusing
powerful hardware, software, and services, Xbox 360 fully engages you in a
gaming experience that is more expansive, dramatic, and lifelike, where the
possibilities are limitless and your imagination knows no boundaries. The next
generation is here.
●
Industrial design: A merger of form and function, Xbox 360 wraps powerful
technology in a sophisticated exterior. Two of the most innovative design firms
in the world—San Francisco-based Astro Studios and Osaka, Japan-based Hers
Experimental Design Laboratory Inc.—came together to craft a sleek, stylish
system that conveys the very essence of Xbox 360.
●
Xbox Gamer Guide: The Xbox Gamer
Guide is an entertainment gateway that instantly connects you to your games,
friends, music, movies, and downloadable content. Available at a touch of the
Xbox Guide Button, the Xbox Gamer Guide gives you instant access to the
experiences and content you want, from the gamer card of the player that just
invited you to play online to new downloadable content for the game currently
running.
● Personalized interface: Xbox 360 lets
you create your own unique system and experience. With interchangeable Xbox 360
Faces, it's easy and fun to change the appearance of your console. Switch on
your system and customize the look and feel of the Xbox Gamer Guide and Xbox
System Guide with unique "skins." From sleek and sophisticated to fun
and funky, pick the Faces and skins that show your personality.
● Ring
of Light and Xbox Guide Button: Divided into four
quadrants, the glowing Ring of Light and Xbox® Guide Button visually connect
you to your games, digital media, and the world of Xbox Live™, the first global,
unified online console games service. Featured on both the wireless and
wired controllers, the Xbox Guide Button puts you in control of your
experience. In addition to
bringing up the Xbox Gamer Guide and the Xbox System Guide, the Xbox Guide
Button lets you turn the system on and off without ever leaving the couch.
● Xbox Live: Xbox Live is where games
and entertainment come alive, the only unified place where you can play with anyone, anytime, anywhere.
And the best just got better. Connect
your Xbox 360 to your broadband connection and get instant access to Xbox Live Silver. Express your digital identity through
your Gamertag and gamer card, talk with others using voice chat, and access
Xbox Live Marketplace—all right out of the box, at
no extra cost. Upgrade to Xbox Live Gold and enter the exciting world of multiplayer online
gaming. With intelligent matchmaking, access to all your achievements and
statistics, video chat and video messaging, and an enormous selection of games,
Xbox Live Gold delivers your competition, on your
terms.
● Xbox Live Marketplace: Keep
your favorite games fresh with instant access to new content. Xbox Live Marketplace is a
one-stop shop to download new game trailers, demos, and episodic content, plus
new game levels, maps, weapons, vehicles, skins, and more. Accessible to
everyone who establishes a broadband connection with their Xbox 360, Xbox Live Marketplace lets you personalize and extend your
experience, on demand.
● Games:
Xbox 360 redefines what games look like, sound like, feel like, and play like
to engage you like never before. With Xbox 360, epic worlds are alive with
detail, from thunderous skies rumbling over a mountain range to tiny blades of
grass rustling together in the breeze. Vibrant characters display depth of
emotion to evoke more dramatic responses, immersing you in the experience like
never before. You’ll see all Xbox 360 titles at 720p resolution in 16:9
widescreen, with anti-aliasing for smooth, movie-like graphics and
multi-channel surround sound.
● Digital
entertainment: Amplify your music, photos, video,
and TV. Watch progressive-scan DVD movies right out of the box. Rip music to
the Xbox 360 hard drive and share your latest digital pictures with friends.
Make the connection, and Xbox 360 instantly streams the digital media stored on
your MP3 player, digital camera, Media Center PC, or any Microsoft® Windows®
XP-based PC.
Xbox 360 System Performance Specifications |
|
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 |
- 500MHz 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 GDDR3 RAM - 700 MHz of DDR - 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 |
Availability: Holiday 2005
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