Xbox One Event Recap: Everything You Need To Know

Updated: May 21, 2013

Today was the big reveal for Microsoft’s new gaming console, the Xbox One and here is our complete event recap. Akin to the Wii U the name choice is a result of wanting to convey some kind of underlying philosophy of the system.

In this case, the “One” refers to how the machine will serve as an all in one device for people to be able to watch movies, play games, browse the internet, stream music, watch live television, and even skype with friends.

This philosophy was immediately reflected in how the show progressed, initially focusing on the new unit’s interface and voice commands, allowing users to not only turn on their Xbox and switch between various programs quickly with voice alone, but also being able to simultaneously run them, such as skyping while watching tv, or browsing the internet while seeing a movie.

I have to admit, these first few moments were pretty enticing, while UI alone isn’t what I want developers to focus on for a new system, what they had to show was genuinely interesting looking and offered an experience much like what we expected from televisions of the future like something out of Back to the Future.

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david

Not to saying anything bad but can we have a comparison with XBOX ONE VS PS4.

Also no gaming system will ever beat a real hard core gaming water cooled computer like mine. I wish games company start to do multi platform but i just want them to do this th means no mater what i have wither pc,xbox one or ps4 ect i can buy it for the platform i prefer to.
- Figlio
  
  Congrats bro about your super duper watercooled rig. Nobody cares
- Jonnathon Clayton
  
  while I agree with you on the fact that gaming consoles cant compete with a solid gaming pc, partially because design time eats away at the life of the hardware being “high end”, so by the time they release they are already behind by almost a year spec wise, not to mention no controller will ever have the persion of a mouse, games on consoles compensate by being far mor optimized and having features like aim asist to make up for the short commings, so calm down because you are kinda tooting your own horn, as your not the only person with a nice pc, and there are less major titles then Ever before that are console exclusive.
jos

with Nvidia recent rant ” PS4 specs are in the neighborhood of a low-end CPU, and a low- to mid-range GPU” wander will the say the same about the xbox one due to them being similar. or do you think that was more of sour grapes that sony went with amd this time around, or Nvidia comparing PS4 with top of the Line gamming rigs
- Ray786
  
  well that was because of the fact sony did not sign and agreement with them and to get back at them they started to trash on it. main reason for this was that sony thought that Nvida was giving them a price too high and would make a much more expensive system and sony doesn’t want a PS3 again so AMD which is the choice of practically all consoles was the logical choice with the relatively inexpensive components.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Armour/100000541004256 Chris Armour
    
    Nvidia didn’t sign their hardware for the PS4 because they didn’t feel that effort it would take to meet Sony’s supply demands justified taking manpower from other projects. Nvidia has their hand in more things than just gaming processors, that being said, this has nothing to do with “trashing” the PS4. It’s common knowledge to most PC gamers that any current generation console could never hold a stick to a low-mid range PC.
http://www.facebook.com/josh.peet1 Josh Peet

I would rather go with the Xbox one now that I have herd both sides but sony and ms hasn’t fully showed the whole shabang of what they are capable so E3 might change my mind I have a high end rig but I would rather just get a console for the big screen so I can put my pc back in the office kinda hard playing fsp’s with a keyboard and mouse on the couch .and I don’t like playing fsp’s on a 360 controller. I am so lazy . As always good article Elric.