Xbox One

 

General specs

The Xbox one is a games console from the tech giant microsoft released on the 23rd of may 2013 as microsofts third console released to the world wide market. The xbox one comes with the new kinect 2.0 which can be used for voice and body gestures to control the system and is often used in games as a main input. The Xbox one includes TV intergration with its one guide and a HDMI in port, this allows TV boxes to be plugged into the xbox and be controlled by voice gestures as well as with the controller. The Xbox One uses AMD's Jaguar APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) which has 8 cores clocked at 1.75Ghz. The Console supports USB 3.0 external hard drives for the ability to store more games.

 

To Summarise Specs 

 

1. Kinect 2.0

2. TV integration

3. Voice Gesture control

4. Motion Gesture control

5. Fast APU

6. USB 3.0

7. External Harddrive support

 

Gaming:

The Xbox One includes a great deal of exclusive and popular games which all have great graphics and amazing quality, the controller is improved from the previous console. The windows 10 operating system that the console uses is great for multitasking and icludes new universal apps that sync with other windows 10 devices.

 

With a windows 10 PC you can use the Xbox to stream games to it while connected to the same router. This is great if the tv is in use but you still want to play call of duty you can turn on the xbox from your computer and start streaming and playing from your computer. It also supports party chat so you can talk to other gamers while using your computer.

 

To Summarise Specs 

 

1. Lots of Exclusives

2. Great Graphics

3. Good Multitasking

4. Xbox Game Stream

 

Limitations

The Xbox one has tons of benefits but also alot of negatives.

 

The Xbox ones APU isnt as quick as the PlayStation 4 its competition although it cost more money. If you bought a new game and expect to put it into your console and just play it you're dead wrong, games take a long time to install and almost always need an update after you sat there for two hours waiting for it to install you can finally play the game.

 

The Xbox one doesnt come with enough memory to store all of the games that they force you to install, most games are at least 50Gb each which means you can hold at most 10 games at a time. If you just bought a new game you will have to uninstall a game to give space to install the new one.

 

To Summarise Specs 

 

1. Not as fast as competition

2. More expensive than competition 

3. Not big enough internal harddrive size

 

Future Developments

 

The Xbox one is a great system but improvement for the future developments is needed as this cosole is far from perfection, the first feature i would recommend is by using more powerful hardware and better GUI. By removing the Xbox live gold subscription for online communication with friends and multiplay it would drastically improve the sales of the console and make it one of the better consoles. Another feature for the future Xbox console is that 4k output at 60hz or higher is supported by using a HDMI 2.0.