Secondo il sito cinese Unika.com, le specifiche qui di seguito saranno quelle del Revolution, la prossima console di Nintendo:

• CPU: IBM G5 Custom x 4 2.5GHz cores, level 1 cache 128KB, a level 2 cache 512KB share

• GPU: RN520 x 2core 16MB eDRAM, PC R520 AMR technology supports 720p and 1080i.

i dati vanno ovviamente presi con le molle, non c’è niente di ufficiale.

A pochi giorni dal lancio, continuano a uscire notizie e anticipazioni, più o meno vere, su Xbox 360. Oggi è il giorno delle specifiche ufficiali della console:

2 types of Xbox Live:
Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)

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)
– Multiplayer online gameplay
– Avatar for gamer profile(S)(O)
– Motto for gamer profile (S)(O)
– Personalized look for Xbox System Guide (S)(O)
– Offline achievments (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)
– Enahnced matchmaking using above
– Skill level matchmaking
– Gameplay 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)
– Microtransactions (S)
– Custom playlist in every game (S)(O)
– Play music from portable devices (S)(O)
– View images from digital camera (S)(O)
– Strem media from Windows XP (S)(O)
– Interactive screen savers (S)(O)
– Track info for CDs (S) (O)
– Communication with voice, video or text (S)

The 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
– 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 frontside bus

Audio
– Mulitchannel surround sond output
– Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
– 320 independent decompression channels
– 32 bit processing
– 256+ audio channels