Yesterday
, on a show televised by MTV, Microsoft officially unwrapped the XBox 360 and revealed the specs to the outside world.
I’ll just link to the Slashdot discussion thread, where you’ll find links to all the other news sources covering the Xbox 360. The most interesting articles come from the hands of the BBC and Engadget (Engadget actually has the Colony video).
A couple of thoughts: I was surprised when reading that the new console was going to have a pretty advanced version of the PowerPC. The first thought that raced through the mind was that Microsoft needs that power to have a PC emulator running in case they want to emulate the XBox. Remember: the XBOX runs a stripped down version of Windows 2000 (or, some others say, a multimedia enriched version). Looking at the (official?) specs of the XBox 360, it just looks like that the developers of Microsoft have managed to port Windows to the PowerPC. Or maybe that port was always available.