Microsoft Corp. ’s Xbox 360 will be available in two version costing US$ 300 and $ 400 when it is launched later this year , the caller say Wednesday . In Europe it will be € 300 and € 400 severally and in the U.K. will be £ 210 and £ 280 severally .
The proclamation , which was made at the Games Convention issue in Leipzig , Germany , fills in one of the last and most important pieces of information about the console .
Capable of high - definition telecasting , the Xbox 360 is substantially more brawny than any gaming console usable at present . At a recent event in Tokyo the ship’s company show prevue of several Xbox 360 games and all featured stunning graphic that lend a new level of realness to computer play .
At the heart of the console will be a three - marrow Power PC flake custom - produced for the console by IBM Corp. and a graphics chip from ATI Technologies Inc. It also has a 12X dual - bed DVD - ROM driving and the more expensive version includes a 20 GB punishing - disk drive , wireless controller , headset , Ethernet cable and wireless distant control .
All of the add-on included in the pricier package , dubbed the agiotage version , will also be available as individual ADHD - ons to the basic system .
With the major specification and the price stage set , the only other handsome annunciation awaited from Microsoft is the factual launch particular date . It ’s promised to put the Xbox 360 on sales event in North America , Europe and Japan before the ending of this yr . Japanese pricing details will be announced at the Tokyo Game Show next month .
That launch schedule should put the cabinet in the shop several calendar month before Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. found its PlayStation 3 console . The PlayStation 3 has an equally impressive spec sheet that includes an eight - gist processor that boasts a full public presentation of 218 G FLOPS ( floating breaker point mathematical operation per second ) — 35 multiplication the performance of the PlayStation 2 .
Combined with an Nvidia Corp. graphics organisation the Sony console table should pack about double the might of the Xbox 360 , although how much of that can be translated into a just gaming experience will depend on the secret plan programmer .
Moving towards launching , earlier Wednesday Microsoft announced it has lined up three company to manufacture the console table . They are Singapore ’s Flextronics International Ltd. and Taiwan ’s Wistron Corp. , both of which produce the current - propagation Xbox console , and Canada ’s Celestica Inc. All three companies will get the Xbox 360 at their respective manufactory in China , say Microsoft .
update 08/17/05 11:35 AM : Added extra entropy from Games Convention in Leipzig , Germany
