[XB1] Official Xbox One Thread

[Primetime]

What was the future of gaming?

Being able to turn your gaming console on by talking to it?
Getting fantasy basketball updates on your TV screen?
Being able to watch trailers and order tickets for the Hunger Games Part 2 while you're still in the middle of watching the first one?
Not being able to play unless your online.
Not being able to easily lend, trade, or sale games to your friends.

How is any of this a future that anyone should've wanted?

Just to name a few...

Always online
Digital era
Family share(Which they've reinstated partially :fap
Seamless transitions
Endless controller possibilities
Cloud

 

[Garrett67]

:dead:

Link?

I hope they have my size

 

[jms493]

Yeah what the hell...where do I put in my size request. I want green ones

 

[Primetime]

The Xbox One Can Tell When It's Overheating, and Adjusts to Fix It

So here's a cool thing the Xbox One can do: It automatically recognizes when it's overheating—probably because you're an idiot and left a pizza box on top of it—and can adjust on the fly. In fact, it's designed with extra room to make those adjustments.

In our chat with Xbox's General Manager of Console Development Leo del Castillo, I asked how Microsoft can account for the unknowns it's facing with the new design—much more Blu-ray player-ish than its predecessors, which invites people to set things on top of it. That's never really been a problem for weirdo designs like the SNES or N64, or even the concave Xbox 360.

“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.

"One thing that we have more flexibility with," del Castillo says, "With the architecture of the Xbox One, is that we can dial back the power of the box considerably. We had a little less flexibility with the 360. And 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."

He wasn't clear about if we'd see that lowest power state in games themselves, or only in apps or other functions, like watching movies, but it's an interesting addition—one that will need to be closely monitored and balanced, because the last thing you want is to be losing framerates on your game because your Xbox One decides it doesn't want the fan to wake up. There's a give and take, and it probably won't be tinkerable for the user. In fact, it's not really clear how it'll show up at all on your end.

"I don’t know the exact details of how it’ll show up to the user," del Castillo explains. "But 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."

Using the audio cue of the fan is actually a half-decent natural design. And if the usually quiet fan gets loud as hell and no one bothers to move the 24-pack of diapers from on top of the console? "If we get to the point where that is no longer enough, we have the mechanism, the interface, to deal with that," del Castillo says. That means pop-up or banner alert, probably, which sounds annoying, but it's better than your Xbox melting to death.

 

[KNUBB]

The Xbox One Can Tell When It's Overheating, and Adjusts to Fix It

Big deal for XBOX. Already present on the PS3 :troll:

 

[Atlas]

oh you mean how party chat is a big deal for ps4, but was already on the 360 :bosh:

 

[KNUBB]

oh you mean how party chat is a big deal for ps4, but was already on the 360 :bosh:

Who said its a big deal. Reliability is a much bigger deal. Just accept the jab and move on

 

[Atlas]

:gooby:

 

[Primetime]

YOLOD

 

[KNUBB]

YOLOD

Would you like to know what the YLOD stemmed from?

90% of the time the thermal paste has melted away so technically yes it overheats and shuts down to prevent further damage. It also does recognize overheating and turns itself off well before it even reaches YLOD status

 

[Primetime]

Go talk to anyone that fixes RROD'd 360's. They'll tell you 90% of them are from not a poor design, but people just misusing them and either putting them on carpet or near other stuff and thus collecting dust. We can all use excuses.

 

[KNUBB]

Go talk to anyone that fixes RROD'd 360's. They'll tell you 90% of them are from not a poor design, but people just misusing them and either putting them on carpet or near other stuff and thus collecting dust. We can all use excuses.

Well based on you response you have no idea what thermal paste is at this point. Takes a bit of time to melt away. Not a month later like the RROD. There is a reason the failure rate has consistently held at ~10%. No need to even discuss the 360 failure rate

 

[Primetime]

Well based on you response you have no idea what thermal paste is at this point. Takes a bit of time to melt away. Not a month later like the RROD. There is a reason the failure rate has consistently held at ~10%. No need to even discuss the 360 failure rate

My PS3 got YLOD'd after 6 weeks :kanye:

Unfortunately, my roommate at the time had his 360 die the next day. :domestic:

 

[IamMedellin]

my launch PS3 is still going strong, and the abuse includes lugging her big blk ass to the homes of certain females who already had a Big Blk Ass... big blk Ass Squared is what Im sayin...

never once YLOD'd...

dont think I know of anyone on my XBL friend's list who never got a RROD, it's almost a rite of passage on XBL :wink:

 

[Buzzman]

I never RROD

 

[Houston]

I never RROD

Not a true gamer.

 

[Atlas]

4 YLODs and 0 RRODs, guess my super :homer: powers protected the xbox :dd:

 

[Swarley]

1 RROD out of 3 Xboxs. I don't think any of my friends through college didn't get the RROD. I've had my PS3 since Uncharted 2 launced and haven't had any hiccups.

 

[Golden Taters]

I intentionally broke my first 360 so they would send me a newer, quieter model while I was still under warranty. I duct-taped all the vents up and basically let it melt. No fucks given.

 

[Atlas]

one of my old roommates still has his launch 360 and swears its never had an issue, but has a degree in engineering from harvard, and i remember that thing looking worked over :gooby: