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Scroll down for our Top 10 list of Xbox games Microsoft has revealed its latest console: Xbox 360. This gaming console is smaller and more stylish than the previous iteration, with the addition of the PS2 feature of being able to stand vertically or horizontally. The Xbox 360 can be customised using a variety of faceplates to suit your home. It boasts an IBM PowerPC CPU running at 3.2GHz with memory at 512MB RAM. The graphics chip is an ATI chip capable of advanced antialiasing and shading effects, so delivering true 720p and 1080i wide-screen HDTV images for all of its games - similar to what the PS3 achieves. An interesting feature of the Xbox 360 is the Media Center Extender that lets you can stream video, audio and photos from networked PCs running Windows Media Center Edition. The Xbox 360 is backwards compatible with the top Xbox games.![]() Top 10 Xbox 360 games Hardware specifications Hardware Specs: Custom IBM Power-PC 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: 500MHz 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 - 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA, shader Performance - 48 billion shader operations per second Memory: 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM, 700 MHz of DDR, Unified memory architecture Memory Bandwidth: 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth, 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 WiFi: up to four wireless game controllers, 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g Digital Media Support: 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 High-Definition Game Support: supported at 16:9, 720p, and 1080i, anti-aliasing Audio: Multi-channel surround sound output, 48KHz 16-bit audio, 320 independent decompression channels System Orientation: stands vertically or horizontally Customizable Face Plates: interchangeable to personalize the console |
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For Wii game reviews, visit http://www.computerandvideogames.com/. The Wii is powered by IBM and ATI hardware. The Nintendo Wii has captured the hearts of the UK public, and taken the market by storm with its games aimed clearly at the family audience. The WiiFit - a form of activity board, and wireless controllers adds a vivd new dimension to their brilliant collection of games.