The benefits as explained by Blackley is that the XBox has been developed from the ground up by game players for game players.
Through advances in technology, the XBox is hyped as the next level in gaming with many companies signing on to develop games. These include; Konami, Activision Inc., Bandai Co. Ltd., Capcom Co. Ltd., Eidos Interactive Ltd., Hudson Soft Co. Ltd, Infogrames, Konami Corp., Midway Home Entertainment Inc., Namco Limited, Sierra Studios and THQ.
The specifications of the XBox are;
- Intel Pentium III 733MHz processor technology with Streaming SIMD Extensions
- 300MHz custom-designed X-Chip, developed by Microsoft and nVidia
- 64 MB of RAM (unified memory architecture)
- Custom 3-D audio processor
- 8GB hard drive
- 5X DVD drive with movie playback
- Four game controller ports
- Expansion port
- Proprietary A/V connector
- 10/100 MBps Ethernet
- Broadband enabled
- Modem enabled (optional)
- 6.4GB/sec Memory Bandwidth
- 150 million micropolygons/particles per second
- 150 million transformed and lit polygons per second
- 100 million polygons per second sustained performance (shading, texturing)
- 4 simultaneous textures
- Compressed textures available at 6:1 compression
- Full-scene anti-aliasing
- DVD movie playback
- 1920x1080 maximum resolution
- HDTV support
- 256 Audio channels
- 3-D Audio support
- Midi/DLS2 support
At the present moment there is no announcement for use of XBox in arcades.
