Visiting 360

Was going through the features of the new XBOX 360 from Microsoft. It is quite impressive:

** Three symmetrical IBM cores running at 3.2GHz each; two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total

** 500 MHz custom ATI graphics processor; 10MB of embedded DRAM and 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines; unified shader architecture

** 512MB of GDDR3 RAM memory; 700MHz of DDR; unified memory architecture

** 1 teraflop of overall system floating-point performance

** All games supported in high definition at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing

** Standard definition and high definition video output supported

** Instant, free, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live:Marketplace on Xbox Live for
downloadable contentGamer profile for digital identityVoice and video messages – even voice chat while watching movies or listening to music

** Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP PCsRip your music to the Xbox 360 Hard Drive and listen to your custom playlistsBuilt-in Windows Media Center Extender

** Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Windows Media Audio CD, MP3 CD and JPEG photo CD

I guess it is not just about gaming....it is about almost everything!

and then i went through the anticipation ratings of the games on XBOX 360.....Quake 4 gets 4 out of 5..impressive again!!
Most, if not all, of the world’s greatest game creators have signed up for Xbox 360. Microsoft finally nailed Squaresoft and ongoing support from 2K Games (GTA, etc) is a sure sign of great things to come.

Honestly ..i will not mind going for a 360....but i would like to wait for more user opinions!!