No one went to E3 Conference this Year?

[Admin]

Doesn't matter now since the specs for the next 3 hardwares are out now.
I love the idea how XBox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Revolution are all "backward compatible!"

Originally Posted by XBox 360 Specs

-Support for DVD-video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R/RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG photo CD
-All games support 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliased
-Customizable face plates (picture below)
-3 USB2.0 ports
-Support for 4 wireless controllers
-Removable 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 MHz
-10 MB embedded DRAM
-48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
-unified shader architecture

Memory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
-700 MHz 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
-Multi channel surround sound output
-Supports 48kHz 16-bit audio
-320 independent decompression channels
-32-bit processing
-256 audio channels

In addition Xbox 360 will have two types of Xbox Live -subscriptions -- Xbox Live Silver (free) and Xbox Life Gold (paid).

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)
-Multi player online game play
-Avatar for gamer profile(S)(O)
-Motto for gamer profile (S)(O)
-Personalized look for Xbox System Guide (S)(O)
-Offline achievements (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)
-Enhanced matchmaking using above
-Skill level matchmaking
-Game play 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)
-Micro transactions (S)
-Custom play list in every game (S)(O)
-Play music from portable devices (S)(O)
-View images from digital camera (S)(O)
-Stream media from Windows XP (S)(O)
-Interactive screen savers (S)(O)
-Track info for CDs (S) (O)
-Communication with voice, video or text (S)

Originally Posted by Playstation 3 Specs

CPU

Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU

RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound

Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)

Memory

256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth

Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance

2 TFLOPS

Storage

Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1

I/O

USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

Communication

Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller

Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)

AV Output

Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc Media

CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE
Sourced from SONY CORP.

Originally Posted by Nintendo Revolution

[Keng]

Went on Wed and Friday, just got home actually

[Nate]

If you listened to Microsoft's press conference on the xbox 360, it's backwards compatiable for "top selling games." Meaning that only a few xbox games will be playable (Halo, Halo 2 for sure). The reason for that is because they're going to be running off an emulator because of completely new graphic processor.

Other then that, I'll probably end up getting both PS3 and Xbox 360. I'm kinda dissappointed in Nintendo, they showed their new console and released very little info on it. I just hope those PS3 footage are actually true. If not I hope the games can achieve that quality.

[Keng]

All the footage on PS3 are CG except the Epic and EA. They are trying to get all title to run on Xbox 360, that is their aim. J Allard said the whole performance of Xbox 360 is 3x of PS3.

[Admin]

PS3 is on my wish list. Too bad the Playstation consoles will not make it for the holiday season.

"J Allard said the whole performance of Xbox 360 is 3x of PS3."
That is so hard to believe. From what I've read on the web, Playstation specs are much advanced in terms of graphics and technology. I don't know the exact details. And Playstation has and always will have a larger customer base and wide selections of game titles. But of course, Microsoft has their set of plans that can convert loyal Playstation fans. Better yet, convince gamers to buy both - PS3 and XBox360.

Nintendo Revolution has a niche market of its own. Although the Revolution hardware might not be as advanced as the other competitors, Nintendo is doing quite well themselves. Nintendo has a wide selection of games with an ESRB ratings of E and T.

[Keng]

Cell is advanced ya, but Xbox 360 is equipped with 3*3.2G PowerPC core. PS3 is 1*3.2G

[Mike]

PC games for life!
But really who cares about the spec, its all about the games. You don't want your nice console sitting on your shelve doing nothing due to the lackof game titles.