Fate of the Unwanted

From Pulse, a G4 TV show, this is from Microsoft"For gamers, the new Xbox will be impressive, giving them the ability to play fast-action, realistic 3-D games on a high-definition TV set. Microsoft's emissaries have told industry developers and publishers that the next Xbox will be ready to launch in fall 2005 with the following specifications:• Three IBM-designed 64-bit microprocessors. The combined power of these chips means the Xbox Next will have more computing power than most personal computers. Earlier versions of these PowerPC chips are used in Apple Computer's high-end G5 PowerMac machines now.• A graphics chip designed by ATI Technologies with speeds much faster than its upcoming R400 chip for the personal computer. This chip will help the next Xbox to display games with the resolution of high-definition TV.• Compatibility with the original Xbox, which is based on Intel and Nvidia chips, isn't guaranteed. Microsoft is concerned it would cost too much money in hardware or in licensing fees to enable the Xbox Next to play old Xbox games. This is risky in part because Sony's strategy has been to maintain compatibility with its old consoles.``I can't imagine that Microsoft would be so insanely stupid as to make it incompatible,'' said Jon Peddie, an analyst at Jon Peddie Research in Tiburon.Microsoft is leaving itself wiggle room to react to competitive moves by Sony and Nintendo. A few details are to be decided. In contrast with the current Xbox, the next one will have no hard disk drive -- unless Sony puts one in the PlayStation 3. Instead, the console will rely on flash memory to store saved games and permanent data, much like the current PlayStation 2.The machine also will have about 256 megabytes of dynamic random access memory. But Microsoft will upgrade that to 512 megabytes if Sony puts in more. The previous Xbox had 64 megabytes. And lastly, it isn't clear if Microsoft will include the current DVD video technology or Blu-Ray, its successor. Blu-Ray will hold much more data, but it's unclear when it will be ready for market.The current Xbox has an eight-gigabyte hard disk drive. That drive is useful for online games and storing game art, but many developers chose not to make use of it. As a result, Microsoft seems to have decided that saving the $50 the hard drive costs outweighs its benefits"

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pfft, i'll just buy the Phantom thing to own joo all...

No hard drive=gayEverything else=good

lol, i like how a bunch of shit is "waiting for sony" etc, what aboot nintendo!? ;)i'll prolly be passing on the next gen systems till they the first price drop

Sweet, nice one Des'.I think I'll do what Redwask said, wait for one or to price drops.

lol, i like how a bunch of shit is "waiting for sony" etc, what aboot nintendo!?HAHA!! The name says it all ReddY BoY!nintendo still isnt up to par yet with the first Xbox and PS2, they have a LONG way to go to catch up with this Beast!

looks great, is gonna cost a fortune, and where the hell is sony???!!!i still want to see what sonys gonna do with the ps3, but they're really hushed up about it. but take a look att what i just found. http://uk.playstation.com/news/newsStor ... ype=SSLthe PlayStation portable something to keep in the pocket, eh?

nothing fact, just hear say for PS3PlayStation 3 Specs and Rumors Question Hank can you tell me everything you know about playstation3 (including rumors please) Answer Well, since you asked for rumors, you better hang on to your seat! Here come the rumors! Main Processor: code-named “Cell” produced by IBM on 0.10-micron SOI process. Clock Speed: 3 GHz Floating-Point Performance: 196 GFLOPS Operations per Second: 2 Trillion 3D Geometric Transformations: 2 Billion Polygons per Second New processor design specifically for broadband communication generation. System Memory: 512MB System Memory Bandwidth: 24 GB/sec Secondary Processor: Emotion Engine on 0.13-micron process (backward compatible with PS2) Clock Speed: 300 MHz or 375 MHz (selectable) GS3 (Graphics Synthesizer 3) Clock Speed: 750 MHz Embedded DRAM: 32MB Screen Resolution: variable from 320x224 to 1920x1080 Fillrate: 24 Billion Pixels per Second Sound: SPU3 + CPU Number of Voices: 256 ADPCM channels + software DVD-ROM Built-in Broadband Ethernet Port 120GB Hard Disk Drive Japanese Release Date: Q4 2004 US Release Date: Q3 2005 Some of these specifications are based on facts (but not necessarily directly involving PS3), some are based on rumors passed around the Internet, and other parts I devised myself through intensive calculations.

whoa whoa whoa, wtf incompatible? that is the uber gay, so halo 2, a game we have been waiting for for like 2 years now, will probably come out at the end of this year, so then shabam thats sexy and everyones playing it la la la but wtf, new xbox, not compatible?!?! GAY sure theres like a year inbetween but i still play halo 1, so ill be playing halo 2 for like....*counts fingers*.....the next 32 years! they damn better make it compatible or im gonna be friggen pissed cause the only game i would be willing to buy again for anohter 50 dollars to be compatible with the new xbox would probably be halo2, oh and the new xbox better have some damn better xbox live connection because right now its one of the shittiest networks ive seen, ghost recon has the worst connection (cant even join a game), nfl fever lags you out before youve chosen your own team (oh yeah it lags in single player as well) and the only game that has run semi smoothly was unreal championship but that got boring after my friend and i pretty much won every match we played and plus its just a halo substitute, but i must say the transporter gun turns me on