The History of Video Gaming

Graphics, prepossessing speed, pixel pipelines, polygons, memory, space ETC has all risen in the past 10 years due to revolutionary consoles and computers. the 2s games and Arcade were mare building blocks to what we see today, like:
the Xbox 360
This is one of the most powerful games consoles known to man
spec.

360 hardware:
1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
- 9 billion dots per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
- 500 MNz
- 10 MB embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- unified shader architecture

Memory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MNz DDR

Memory Bandwidth
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio
- Mulitchannel surround sond output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels

just by looking at these you can understand the true power of the xbox 360 has to offer

GRAW (ghost Recon advance war fighter)
HALO 3 INGAME

the xbox 360 will have years of revolutions before it does go out of fashion by the rate of which technology is rapidly advancing thats a life time