Xbox One can detect and prevent overheating
Xbox's general manager of console development Leo del Castillo told Gizmodo that while Microsoft can't stop misuse of the console, or people blocking fans, it can at least anticipate and prevent any harm.
The Xbox One has been designed to detect its own temperature and adjust automatically to avoid overheating.
"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," Castillo said.
"With the architecture of the Xbox One... we can dial back the power of the box considerably," he continued. "We had a little less flexibility with the 360. So basically, if we couldn't dissipate the heat, there wasn't a whole lot of leverage we could pull to keep the heat from being generated, so we had a limited amount of time before it just shut down.
"Xbox One can actually dial it back to a lower power state, so low in fact that it can in a mode that uses virtually no air flow."
How the depletion of power will affect the user remains unknown, but del Castillo says "we try to be as transparent to the user as possible. We'll allow the fan to go all the way up to maximum speed. They might notice the extra noise, and that will help to self-correct the condition." If that's not enough, "we have the mechanism, the interface, to deal with that," del Castillo added.
Microsoft made another change to its user policy earlier this week as chief Xbox One platform architect Marc Whitten revealed that Kinect is not required for the console to function.
The Xbox One launches in November, but Australian fans can go hands-on with the console at the EB Games Expo in October, while Microsoft is teasing unique exclusives to be revealed at Gamescom later this month.
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DLTPosted:
McNuggets_Jr People overreact about RROD too much. Me and all my friends bought our Xbox's 8 years ago and they're fine...
I've had one console get RROD. That was because it was kept in a confined area with little airflow. I have had my current console for about 3 years now and I have never had a problem with it.
TheStonefatherPosted:
I got a RROD once... but then I found that I just plugged in my hard drive wrong and corrected it and my xbox was fine.
mxzdPosted:
-Dreammxzd tomorrow sony is going to say the same thing about the ps4..
Nope, tomorrow Sony is going to say how PS4 generates no heat at all. And if it does you get a free replacement system and an ice cream cone, just to try and 1-up xbox again.
i've never laughed so hard in my life.
LWRPosted:
This console looks like air can get everywhere so it looks like it will hardly over heat.
LWRPosted:
-Dreammxzd tomorrow sony is going to say the same thing about the ps4..
Nope, tomorrow Sony is going to say how PS4 generates no heat at all. And if it does you get a free replacement system and an ice cream cone, just to try and 1-up xbox again.
It's getting beyond a joke what MS and Sony are doing to better each other.
BelialPosted:
RROD was never a problem. I've had my xbox 360 since around 2008 or so. So 5 years it's only happened once. Keep in mind I leave it on almost all day/all night on accident. And it's the original. The only time it RROD'd on me was because of a new beta test that ruined it.
BelialPosted:
mxzd tomorrow sony is going to say the same thing about the ps4..
Nope, tomorrow Sony is going to say how PS4 generates no heat at all. And if it does you get a free replacement system and an ice cream cone, just to try and 1-up xbox again.
TaigaAisakaPosted:
McNuggets_Jr People overreact about RROD too much. Me and all my friends bought our Xbox's 8 years ago and they're fine...
I've left my Xbox on before for over a day and never got RROD on it. The back was very hot don't get me wrong but it never got RROD.
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