All you need to know about Xbox One

As is known to all interested parties, Microsoft has presented to the public its new eighth-generation game console Xbox One. In contrast to Sony, is shrouded in mystery PS4, Microsoft decided to show at the presentation held on May 21 and all once: besides the consoles, the company also unveiled a new gamepad controller and Kinect 2.0.

Since the presentation of Windows 8, it became clear that Microsoft's designers have embarked on a radical minimalism. The basis of the appearance of Xbox One contained the same square the idea that most of the company's current products. However, public opinion on this subject are divided: some found the design of the new console, fresh and innovative, others have seen in Xbox One old VHS-VCR from the last century. Retro, in a word... But given that the new gadget is not just positioned as a game console, as well as a powerful multimedia center, focused on work with the TV and video content, in this analogy is clearly there meaning.

As for the filling, it is known that the Xbox One was an 8-core processor with a frequency of 1.6 GHz, 8 GB DDR3 memory, hard drive capacity of 500 GB, Blu-Ray drive, and interfaces to external mass communications. It is also reported in the graphic processor capacity 1.2 teraflops.

The device is equipped with the controller Kinect 2.0, which now can not only follow the movements of the player, but also to determine its body temperature and heart rate, as well as to recognize the facial expression. One can only guess how this knowledge can help developers of new games... However, now It mentioned that Kinect will always be in operation, so as not to miss the team user. By the way, if we talk about the teams, their Xbox One will be pleased to hear from its owner - voice control is one of the the main "chip" of the gadget: for example, to activate the music player will now be enough to say a command "the Xbox Music ».

It is also reported that at the moment of the sale of set-top boxes worldwide will employ about 300,000 game servers, and all the results will be stored exclusively in the "cloud." Running console bundle adapted from Windows 8 OS modified Xbox 360 and some software subsystem.

The most important disappointment was that sad for gamers fact that the Xbox One will not support existing games for the Xbox 360. Microsoft justifies such an unfortunate nuance completely new architecture, but we know that there has not been without severe marketing... However, at the event it was announced pretty quality and interesting games that, according to Microsoft, should make gamers forget about Xbox 360.

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