Microsoft unveils long-awaited Xbox One

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the long-awaited successor to the Xbox 360. The new entertainment console will appear later this year on the market and is called Xbox One.

Xbox One, according to Microsoft an ‘all-in-one entertainment console’, and it concerns here the successor of the Xbox 360 was introduced in 2005.Where the Xbox 360 was primarily a game console, Microsoft went during the presentation focuses on the multimedia features. ‘Xbox One is the central multimedia hub in the living room, where the user-centric, “said Don Mattrick of Microsoft.

To the user simply to communicate by voice and movements, with the console is a new version of the Kinect sensor comes with every console.Xbox One also promises to stand with all the media devices in the living room in touch. By simply ‘to Xbox’ to say, start the console and the TV are turned on. The voice command “watch TV” ensures that switches to live TV, and ‘listening music’ example opens the music player.

Skype on Xbox One

Xbox One runs on a Windows kernel and has a deep integration of Skype.Video calls can be made in a pop-up window, for example, while playing a game is on TV or looks. During the presentation was that there were no load times between voice commands and startup apps, and also the launch of the console itself happened within seconds.

Microsoft’s new console running on a processor with eight cores and 8 GB of RAM at its disposal. There is also a support for USB 3.0, One Blu-ray discs, and the hard disk a volume of 500 GB.

One Xbox controller

Although there is a long time rumors were about an Xbox controller with an integrated touch screen, One Xbox controller looks surprisingly similar to that of the Xbox 360. Although there while presenting only a handful of games was presented, knew to mention that Microsoft Call of Duty: Ghosts will be on the Xbox One temporary exclusive playable.

Xbox One will be available worldwide later this year. What needs to be paid for the new console is still unclear. Microsoft will announce more details at the E3 game exhibition, which takes place in early June in Los Angeles about the new device, the games, the features and availability.

Microsoft unveils long-awaited Xbox One