Xbox 360

thumb The Xbox 360 is a seventh generation console by Microsoft. Quotes There is little argument here: The Xbox 360 is a powerful beast that's easily more powerful than 95% of the PCs available today. That will change in the next year or year and a half, but it's impressive nonetheless. The 360 is packed with an enormous amount of processing power, graphic potential, and a healthy amount of flexible memory. With the vehicles in PGR3 using 80,000 polygons per car, graphics aren't going to be the focus any more, it'll be what developers are doing with said graphics. The three 3.2 GHz processors can be independently programmed (enabling programmers to target six threads), which is both a strength and weakness, given traditional programming is done for one processor and the new requirement of having extremely efficient and clean code. Still, the amount of power harnessed in the 360 will enable programmers to finally dig into even deeper, more realistic physics, create greater facial expressions, and invent new gameplay scenarios, and not have to worry about whether the game will look good. They'll all look good. IGN launch review (2005). External links Category:Xbox 360 Category:Seventh-generation video game consoles Category:DVD-ROM-based consoles Category:Backward-compatible video game consoles