The Xbox 360 is one of Microsoft developed play console and the successor of the Xbox. Apart from general advancement on the today's technical level in interests, it has processor/diagram achievement and working storage size an integrated radio interface, which recognizes among other things slack CONTROLLERs. The central storage medium continues to be for the first time comfortably removing and transportable and plays can by hp quality in higher resolutions than PAL on suitable televisions and monitors be shown.

The console was developed in co-operation with IBM, ATI, Samsung and SiS. It appeared in the USA on 22 November 2005. The introduction on the market in Europe and Japan took place to 2. and/or 10 December 2005. The Xbox 360 start against the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii, which will arrive only later however at the market, and is partly downward compatible to the predecessor console. It became official to 12. May 2005 in the USA and later also in Europe on MTV presented.

The project name of the console was xenon. In the press it was called before publication of the name also Xbox 2 or Xbox NEXT one.

Of 4. by 5 October Microsoft presented the new console as well as accessory articles and the Launchtiteln on the X05 in Amsterdam. However only loaded guests as well as journalists of the technical literature had admission to this meeting.

Those the public on the E3 in May demos shown of the Launchtitel did not run for the first time on the Xbox themselves, but on hidden Apple power Mac G5s, which was used for the development of the plays.

Sales versions

On 17 August 2005 Microsoft communicated the starting prices for the Xbox-360-Versionen on the Games Convention. Therefore the Xbox appeared 360 in the following versions:

• Xbox 360 core edition (299 "€, 449 SFr.)

• Console
• Cable CONTROLLER
• Composite AV cable with SCART adapter (only composite color picture signal and similar to audio R/L)
• Xbox live Silveraccount (goes only with non removable disk or memory card)

All components of the Premium edition can be re-tooled.

• Xbox 360 Premium edition (399 "€, 579 SFr.)

• Console
• Wireless CONTROLLER
• removable non removable disk (20 GB)
• Headset
• Network cable
• Component HP AV cable with SCART adapters (composite color picture signal and Component video signal (Y, Pr, Pb) for HDTV as well as similar to audio R/L and optical audio connection for digital rendition digital 5,1 Surround sound)
• Xbox live Silveraccount

Additionally there was a remote maintenance for limited time in addition.

Technical data

Processor

• particularly made Design of IBM based on PowerPC
• three symmetrical cores, ever 3.2 GHz
• 90 Nm process, 165 million transistors
• two hardware Threads per core
• altogether six Hardwarethreads
• ever a vector unit VMX-128 per core
• 128 VMX-128-Register per hardware Thread
• 1 MByte Level-2-cache

Diagram processor

• ATI Design
• 337 million transistors
• 500 MHz (90 Nm process, 105 million transistors)
• 10 megabyte embedded DRAM
• Unified Shader architecture (each pipeline pixels or Vertex Shader can implement)

48-vektor-ALUs, 48-Skalar-ALUs, 16 Texture Fetch units, 16 interpolation units, 16 Vertex Fetch units with programmable Tessellation, dedicated Shader control flow units

• Functioned also as Northbridge
• Supports DirectX 9,0 Shader Model 3,0 and limited support for future DirectX 10 more shader models
• The HDTV formats 480p, 720p are supported (1280 720 progressive) or 1080i (1920 1080 interlaced), all plays must at least be laid out for the format 720p and 16:9

The TV-modes are supported:

• HDTV
• PAL-50
• PAL-60 - > manufacturer reference: "“Selecting it PAL-60 only, if their television set supports this mode. Select otherwise PAL-50."”

Arithmetic performance

• millions Polygone per second
• Filling rate: 16 Gigasamples per second with quadruple Antialiasing
• 48 billion Shader operation per second
• Overall system: 1 TFLOP

Main memory

• 512 MByte GDDR3-RAM (700 MHz)
• organized as Unified MEMORY
• 22.4 GByte/s range at the memory interface
• 256 GByte/s range to embedded the DRAM of the diagram chip
• 44.3 GByte/s at the Frontside bus

Dynamic compares RAM

Sound

• Multichannel Surround sound
• 48 kHz, 16-Bit-Audio
• over 256 audio channels
• 320 independent decompression channels
• Dolby Surround and Dolby digital 5.1
• MP3 and WMA support

Storage media

• Core edition: optional non removable disk
• Premium edition: 20 GB non removable disk capacity (40 GB non removable disk in planning)
• twelvefold dual Layer DVD ROM (compatible with DVD+/RW (DL), CD-RW, CD-R)
• MEMORY unit starting from 64 megabyte (two card locations directly at the console)

Input/output

• Up to four wireless CONTROLLERs and 2 Wired (cable-bound) CONTROLLERs.
• Three of USB haven (USB 2.0)
• Ethernet haven
• A/V plug for:

- Video signals Composite video (FBAS), S-video, RGB and Component video (YUV)

- Audio signals of right/left and optical connection for digital rendition

- The usable signal depends on the lead used in each case

• Free basic version before-installed by Xbox live one (gold and SilverXBox live version) does not make Multiplayerspiele, but content down load, Voice Chat and market place possible
• "„WiFi ready "“(optionally, WLAN adapters via USB connectablly)
• "„Video Camera ready "“(EyeToy similar camera for Videochat etc. one sells separately, 1.3 megapixels)

Multimedia support

• Xbox DVD, DVD video, DVD-ROM, DVD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, and JPEG photo CD
• Transferred by music CD data to the Xbox360-Festplatte
• Own Playlists in all plays
• Multimedia Streaming inserted by Windows Media center PCs, Windows Media center Extender
• Direct connection of digital cameras and MP3-Playern (USB host function). Sony PSP and Apple iPod can be attached also directly. If one attaches Sony PSP or a MP3 Player, one can sound oneself on it stored music problem-free in the middle in the play assistance of the "“Xbox Guide key"”.

Xbox live one

There are two different versions of Xbox to live ones, the silver and the gold version. The most important difference is the payment. While one must pay for the gold version monthly, the silver variant is free. However one will be able to play with the silver version only on some weekends on-line. Otherwise all other possibilities, which those has the gold version, are contained also in the silver version. The gold version costs 60 euro in the year and it gives some extra contents, like for example video conferences.

Cutout:

• Voice communication
• Player identification
• Matchmaking
• Download-cash contents

Other

• Exchangeable Frontcover (FacePlate called)
• The control surface is individualizable by different optical topics (Skins), suitable Skins to the Faceplates Designs will appear.
• Free Voice Chat
• The Xbox plays usually-sold so far (halo, Fable, PGR, etc.) can be played in better quality than on the XBox themselves (anti- Aliasing) on the Xbox 360.
• A safety device for children is to make parents possible to let their children play only agefair plays.
• Mass: approx. 270 mm 80 mm 260 mm

The Xbox 360 possesses no digital interfaces for the connection of monitors and TV-devices and can (provisionally) no Hp-DVDs play. An appropriate drive assembly is however in planning, it presumably end of the yearly 2006 available to be, it external be and over one of the three USB 2,0 interfaces of the Xbox 360 is attached. Also the integrated DVD Player offers only to support for MPEG-1 and -2-Videos, which are highly counted into HDTV formats. The Xbox 360 does not show other formats such as MPEG-4 (DivX, XviD), VC-1 or H.264. Further codecs can be re-tooled according to Microsoft however later over firmware updates. These are to be up-played over new plays or on-line connections fully automatic on the console, without the user can affect this. So Microsoft wants to plug also possible safety holes, which could be used by hackers.

Launchtitel

• Amped 3 (2K of sport)
• Call OF Duty 2 (Activision)
• DEAD or Alive 4 (Tecmo) note: only PAL-60!
• FIFA 06: Road ton of FIFA World Cup (electronics kind)
• GUN (Activision)
• Kameo: Element OF power (Microsoft Game of Studios)
• Madden NFL 06 (electronics kind)
• NBA live one 06 (electronics kind)
• Need for speed: Most Wanted (electronics kind)
• Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft Game of Studios)
• Peter Jacksons King Kong (Ubisoft)
• Project Gotham Racing 3 (Microsoft Game of Studios)
• Quake 4 (ID software, Raven software Activision)
• Tiger Woods PGA ROUTE 06 (electronics kind)
• Tony Hawk' s American Wasteland (Activision)

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