360 will offer "true HD"

A software update for Xbox 360 will be released later this year to enhance the console's hi-def visuals and enable Microsoft's machine to output a 1080p resolution image - matching PlayStation 3's ability to create what Sony calls "true HD." This will coincide with the launch of 360's HD DVD drive, due out in Japan on 17 November for 19,800 yen. A US release date has not been confirmed, but we know the drive is headed our way eventually.

Microsoft's big Xbox 360 event, X06, kicksoff in Barcelona next week, and GamesRadar will be there; we expect more detailsthen.

September 20, 2006

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.