x-box 360

[Gav]

anyone ordered one

apparently microsoft cannot supply as many as there are in demand so there are gonna be alot of upset kids n fellas for chrimbo

[Dancliovalver]

theres supposed to be some major problems with it mate

u get alot of little yellow blotches on the TV screen and most of the time the CD tray wont open......................no way is that gonna put me off though, im gonn ahve one next year when they come down in price.

[FATBOY]

whats the big fuss???? why is it called 360??? can it be turned on any end or something?

[Dancliovalver]

yup

[Jamie.]

im getting one, the core package with perfect dark, king-kong (dont want that) and PGR3! cant fukin wait! PGR3 looks mint! and as for supply............... helps if a family member is a manager of argos so u go to the front of the queue

[FATBOY]

whats the specs of the machine??? last i can remember was the N64 being powerful with 64 bit! wasnt the ps1 128 bit?? ps2 was???

[Coops]

anyone ordered one

apparently microsoft cannot supply as many as there are in demand so there are gonna be alot of upset kids n fellas for chrimbo

same every time they release a new console, marketin innit, keep the punters interested by makin em want what they can't have!! teach it business management at uni!!

[FlamingMonkey]

Mine should be here today I got the premium with PGR3 and an extra pad.

Anyone gonne be on Live this weekend I'll kick your ass at Gotham if you are :lol:

[MikeTCB]

Any good? I'd like one but I'm still playing my xbox loads plus they're alot of money to be paying (cars gone a bit dodgy again). I'll wait till I play one and/or they come down in price I think.

[Gav]

im just gonna wait for the ps3, two times better than the 360

[Andyvalver]

whats the specs of the machine??? last i can remember was the N64 being powerful with 64 bit! wasnt the ps1 128 bit?? ps2 was???


Xbox 360 Specifications: :P

* Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
* All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
* Customizable face plates to change appearance
* 3 USB 2.0 ports
* Support for 4 wireless controllers
* Detachable 20GB drive
* 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 front side bus

Audio

* Multi channel surround sound output
* Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
* 320 independent decompression channels
* 32 bit processing
* 256+ audio channels


Offline and online features:
* Avatar for gamer profile
* Motto for gamer profile
* Personalized look for Xbox System Guide
* Offline achievements
* Cumulative gamer score
* Location/language profile
* Custom playlist in every game
* Play music from portable devices
* View images from digital camera
* Stream media from Windows XP
* Interactive screen savers
* Track info for CDs

2 Types Of Xbox Live:
* Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
* Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

Silver:
* Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply)
* Free Xbox Live weekends
* Online achievements
* Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live
* Reputation
* Recent players list
* Free and premium download game content
* Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv
* Downloadable demos/trailers
* Micro transactions
* Communication with voice, video or text

Gold:
* Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
* Enhanced matchmaking using above
* Skill level matchmaking
* Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)

Ive also heard it can record from the tv too :shock:

[Daz.]

My bro picked up his 360 at midnight in burnley last night - I hat to wait for him but had to go back to the van as I was blocking the road!.. I got given a free 360 beanie hat - was so funny me walking around freezing my tits off with a they gay hat on!

was up till 3am playing pgr3.... :D :D :D

So so so so sossosoososoosoosos nice!

Its unreal how you can pause it and basically stroll round the entire field and have a peek in the cockpit of the lead driver!

[Andyvalver]

I was gonna buy one last night from asda to sell on ebay. I so wish i had cuz i just watched one sell on there for £700 :shock:

[FlamingMonkey]

Mines just arrived :P

[Andyvalver]

Whack it on ebay chap. Double your money and get a ps3 :wink:

[FlamingMonkey]

Whack it on ebay chap. Double your money and get a ps3 :wink:

hehe was thinking that, going for silly money at the mo

[Andyvalver]

Whack it on ebay chap. Double your money and get a ps3 :wink:

hehe was thinking that, going for silly money at the mo

Do it mate. I would waited a few months anyway to get an xbox 360 to give microsoft time to iron out any teething problems like games freezing and power packs overheating :D