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Sexy hi-res Xbox One pics

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shinobi602

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We only get new consoles once every half decade or more, so let's enjoy new shiny things.

NowGamer put some nice pics up. I didn't post all of them so check more out here.

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Such a good looking console. The PS4 looks fantastic, too, but the XB1 edges it out, in my opinion. The XB1's controller is way better looking, too.
 
I love the look of the box and the controller (both moreso than PS4). I love the color scheme against the black of the controller, and the box is a beautiful obelisk like shape. That being said, I like the PS4 almost as much and that's my next gen console of choice.
 
Too lazy to make a thread so some info about the hardware and overheating mechanism detailed:

Del Castillo, who joined the Xbox team in 1999 as an electrical engineer and has worked on every console since the original, oversaw every element of Xbox One’s engineering. Right off the bat, we wanted to know whether there was any truth to the theory that the Xbox One’s size was part of a design brief that would allow it to run for ten years straight.

“I don’t know where that came from,” del Castillo laughs. But at the same time, rumors like that one hint at the truth. Xbox One is only a console in name. It’s also Microsoft’s first attempt to make a hub for an Internet of Things—or, more specifically, a hub for the Internet of Home. “It wants to live in the living room,” says del Castillo. “To some extent, it has to be kind of clandestine and fade into the background. But at the same, it has to look and feel like an investment.” The long, black body of the console reflects this—it’s not about making an object that will be the centerpiece of a teenager’s bedroom, as past generations were. It’s about making it quiet and unassuming enough that families will invite it into the living room, to potentially replace everything from their PC to their Blu-ray player.

That’s reflected in the Xbox One’s guts, which hint at the ways in which Microsoft hopes consumers will use it. The console isn’t just wide and long because it’s supposed to look unassuming—it’s big and flat because of its large fan. The design team could have specified a smaller fan, but smaller fans make more noise to push the same amount of air—so the decision was made to trade a large fan for a quieter machine. “In order to be a viable product, we knew it would have to be very quiet,” del Castillo explains. “Because we know that users really, really care about there not being a lot of extra noise when they’re trying to watch TV or a movie.” If the Xbox One is quiet enough, Microsoft hopes that users will give it equal footing in their living rooms (unlike, say, the prohibitively loud Wii U). It’s not just about supporting new gaming capabilities—it’s about supporting entirely new uses.
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More at: http://gizmodo.com/how-the-xbox-one-console-was-designed-to-be-an-everythi-1121363688


“We can’t prevent misuse of the product," del Castillo says, "but we can certainly anticipate it." That's done by the Xbox being aware of the temperature it's running at, and having the capacity to cool itself down in a few ways. "The way we designed the box, we don’t actually intend it to ever have to go to maximum speed under normal environmental conditions. But there is overhead. So we’ll allow the fan to go all the way up to its maximum speed and if that solves the condition without the user having to do anything."

It goes a little further than that, though. The Xbox One actually has the ability to ramp down its power usage, so that it's using next to no power when it feels it's under total thermal duress. This keeps it from melting the plastic in its body, and also from experiencing critical overheating errors, but at the cost of performance, most likely. These are old news to PCs in general, but fairly new developments for consoles, which can't reinvent themselves as often.
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More at: http://gizmodo.com/the-xbox-one-can-tell-when-its-overheating-and-power-1122442616
 
Sexy?

Functional?, sure, understated?, sure, as sleek as a Volvo?, definitely.

Sexy? - Nah.
 
Phil4000 said:
Same, anyone know if the improved rumble is making the transition as well?
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To PC?

I don't see why not.

Obviously games will have to be updated to take use of it, so don't expect rumble triggers when you try to play Borderlands 2 for example. But for ports of games that are on X1 it would be dumb if they didn't have rumble trigger support on PC.
 
Check out that R2-D2 leg for the controller. I haven't seen that mentioned. Is it an accessory or just a prop for the photo shoot?
 
Ugh, those face buttons. The stylistic choice of removing the colored background on each and expanding the letter size relative to the button make them look cheap and tacky to me.
 
System looks alright but the controller looks great. Pretty much polar opposite to the PS4 for me (which is the system looks great and the controller looks alright).
 
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