XBox 360 game console Selling in Store Today

"Hundreds of stores opened at midnight to satisfy fans who waited for hours. The curvy white and silver Xbox 360 marks the beginning of a new chapter in the history of video games."

Launch Party and Huge Lineup

One of the first to buy an Xbox 360 was 19-year-old Peter Gonzalez from Manhattan, who had waited nearly 30 hours at a local store.
"I feel amazing. It's going to be worth it," said the college student, who planned to stay up all night playing games before going to class in the morning.

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XBOX 360 SPECS

• Three IBM PowerPC-based 3.2 GHz cores
• One teraflop overall system floating-point performance
• ATI graphics chip with 10MB of embedded DRAM
• 512MB of 700MHz GDDR3 RAM memory
• Detachable 20GB hard drive
• Built-in Ethernet port
• Games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
• Streams media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP PCs
• Supports up to four wireless controllers

Bonus Reading:

• Microsoft Loses $100+ dollars per Xbox 360 unit (Reported on Slashdot)
  
"...the materials inside the unit cost Microsoft $470 before assembly. The console sells at retail for $399, meaning a loss of $71 per unit..."
• Nintendo & Sony line up in support of Xbox 360 launch
• Xbox 360 Crashing Like Mad?