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Microsoft Xbox One

Xbox One
The Xbox One logo is a white shaded sphere with a green "X" on it followed by the green text "XBOX" and the gray text "ONE".
Microsoft-Xbox-One-Console-Set-wKinect.jpg Microsoft-Xbox-One-S-Console-wController-L.jpg
Above: Original Xbox One console, controller, and Kinect sensor
Below: The Xbox One S redesign
Developer Microsoft
Manufacturer Flextronics, Foxconn
Product family Xbox
Type Home video game console
Generation Eighth generation
Release date
  • NA: November 22, 2013
  • EU: November 22, 2013 (some countries, September 2, 2014, for others)
  • AU: November 22, 2013
  • BR: November 22, 2013
  • JP: September 4, 2014
  • CN: September 29, 2014
Introductory price US$499/€499/£429/JP¥49,980/CN¥3,699
Units sold 3 million (as of December 31, 2013)
Units shipped 10 million (as of November 2, 2014)
Media Ultra HD Blu-ray (S Model), Blu-ray,DVD, CD
Operating system Xbox One system software
CPU Custom 1.75 GHz AMD 8-core APU (2 quad-core Jaguar modules)
Memory 8 GB DDR3 (5 GB available to games)
Storage
Display 4K (S Model), 1080p and 720p
Graphics 853 MHz (Xbox One), 914 MHz (Xbox One S) AMD Radeon GCN architecture (inside of APU)
Sound 7.1 surround sound
Input HDMI
Controller input Xbox One controller, Kinect for Xbox One, Xbox app, Xbox One Media Remote
Camera 1080p camera (Kinect)
Connectivity Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11n, Ethernet, 3× USB 3.0, HDMI 1.4 (Xbox One) HDMI 2.0 (Xbox One S) in/out,S/PDIF out, IR-out, Kinect port (Xbox One)
Online services Xbox Live
Backward
compatibility
Selected Xbox 360 games
Predecessor Xbox 360
Website www.xbox.com

Xbox One is a line of home video game consoles developed by Microsoft. Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to Xbox 360 and the third console in the Xbox family. It was first released in North America, parts of Europe, Australia, and Brazil in November 2013, and in Japan, China, and other European countries in September 2014. It is the first Xbox game console to be released in China, specifically in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone. Microsoft marketed the device as an "all-in-one entertainment system". The Xbox One line mainly competes against consoles such as Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Wii U as part of the eighth generation of video game consoles.

Moving away from its predecessor's PowerPC-based architecture, Xbox One marks a shift back to the x86 architecture used in the original Xbox; it features an AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) built around the x86-64 instruction set. Xbox One's controller was redesigned over the Xbox 360's, with a redesigned body, D-pad and triggers capable of delivering directional haptic feedback. The console places an increased emphasis on cloud computing, as well as social networking features, and the ability to record and share video clips or screenshots from gameplay, or live-stream directly to streaming services such as Mixer and Twitch. Games can also be played off-console via a local area network on supported Windows 10 devices. The console can play Blu-ray Disc, and overlay live television programming from an existing set-top box or a digital tuner for digital terrestrial television with an enhanced program guide. The console optionally included a redesigned Kinect sensor, marketed as the "Kinect 2.0", providing improved motion tracking and voice recognition for use in its graphical user interface (GUI) and games.


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