The perfect blend of powerful technology, sophisticated design and realized possibilities for the future of games and entertainment has arrived. This isn't about incremental change. It's a revolution. Break out of linear and limited entertainment. Leave passive, one-size-fits-all fun behind. Unleash the power of human energy. Xbox 360 inspires new ways to connect to riveting stories, to social communities, to unbridled creativity, and to living, breathing worlds. This time, you're in control.
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We're not philosophers. We just like to play videogames. We don't know the first thing about free will vs. determinism, but we do know that it is your destiny to get Fable III, the latest installment of the franchise that allows you to forge your own adventure through the choices you make. Set five decades after the events in Fable II, the land of Albion has enjoyed the fruits of the industrial revolution, but the fate of the kingdom is in peril. As you are drawn into the revolution, you'll find yourself in a position of power. Whether you use that power for personal gain or for the greater good is up to you; or is it?
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Because Halo is the best-selling Xbox franchise of all-time, the developers at Bungie had their work cut out for them when they were deciding what to do next with the series that has set the gaming standard for the last 10 years. Fortunately for us, they decided that the next step should be a prequel, and you'll experience the beginning of the Halo legend, when the heroic Spartan soldiers make their final stand on the planet Reach, humanity's last line of defense between the Covenant and Earth. We've all seen the carnage that one Spartan can produce. Imagine what a whole squadron of them can do. We all know how this one ends up, too. So the story has a fittingly darker, grittier edge to it as the brave Spartans go to meet their destiny. But you can make sure they go out in a blaze of glory in epic battles against the Covenant on a backdrop of jaw-dropping environments, powered by an all-new engine. And of course, the battles will continue long after the campaign is over on Xbox Live with a satisfying multiplayer experience. We'd expect nothing less from this one.
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The Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system places you at the center of the experience. Xbox 360 ignites a new era of digital entertainment that is always connected, always personalized, and always in high definition.
Xbox 360 gives you access to the games you want to play, the people you want to play with, and the experiences you crave - when and where you want them.
Xbox 360 System Performance Specifications:
Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU: Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each - Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total - VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total - 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread - 1 MB L2 cache
CPU Game Math Performance: 9 billion dot product operations per second
Custom ATI Graphics Processor: 10 MB of embedded DRAM - 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines - Unified shader architecture
Polygon Performance: 500 million triangles per second
Pixel Fill Rate: 16gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA
Shader Performance: 48 billion shader operations per second
Memory: 512 MB of 700 MHz GDDR3 RAM - Unified memory architecture
Memory Bandwidth: 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth - 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM - 21.6 GB/s front-side bus
Overall System Floating-Point Performance: 1 teraflop
Storage: Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive - 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM - Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB
I/O: Support for up to four wireless game controllers - Three USB 2.0 ports - Two memory unit slots
Optimized for Online: - Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies, or listening to music - Built-in Ethernet port - Wi-Fi ready*: 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g Wi-Fi ready*: 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g (*Wireless network adapter is require for wireless connectivity.) - Video camera ready
Digital Media Support: Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD - Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs - Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive - Custom playlists in every game - Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers
High-Definition Game Support: All games supported at 16:9, 720p, and 1080i, anti-aliasing - Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported
Audio: Multi-channel surround sound output - Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio - 320 independent decompression channels - 32-bit audio processing - Over 256 audio channels
System Orientation: Stands vertically or horizontally
- THE NEXT GENERATION BEGINS Always connected, always personalized, and always in high definition
- FAST AND SMART The IBM CPU consists of three 3.2GHz cores
- HARD DRIVE A 20GB hard drive
- GRAPHICS A custom ATI graphics chip drives ultra realistic HD entertainment
- WIRELESS Up to four bi-directional wireless controllers means no more cords
- PLUG AND PLAY Standard USB ports let you plug in your digital entertainment devices or controllers
- MOVIES Progressive- scan DVD playback is standard with every unit
- FACES Personalize your console with changeable faceplates
- RING OF LIGHT The circle of lights flashes to indicate status in games and when you are online
- MEMORY UNITS Plug. Copy. Go. Take your gamertag, your saved games and your content with you