Xbox 360 Specs Leaked

Only a few days before MTV is to showcase the Xbox 360 on air, specifications for the Xbox 360 have been leaked to the internet. The list, which details the hardware and 2 Xbox Live services, has been labeled by Microsoft as "buzz and speculation.", who obviously dont want anything revelaed before the MTV show.

According to the list, the Xbox 360 will feature changable face places so you can customise the appearance of the console, which I would suggest you do as I hate the look of it in the pictures. It also list the console as having a 20 gigabyte detachable hard drive, Wi-Fi support, a CPU with 3 - 3.2 GHz cores, surround sound and universal support for high-definition video.

In addition to that there will be 2 versions of Xbox Live, one free (Silver) and the other subscription based (Gold) that will offer Multiplayer online gameplay and Enahnced matchmaking capabilities. Both versions will allow users to download content such as Demos and Videos.

The full list follows:

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 [sic] * ^

- 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 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 [sic]

- 10 MB embedded DRAM

- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines

- unified shader architecture

Memory

- 512 MB GDDR3 RAM

- 700 MNz [sic] 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 [sic] surround sond [sic] output

- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio

- 320 independent decompression channels

- 32 bit processing

- 256+ audio channels