Microsoft promises that its new machine has a much improved architecture and design, all to ensure the best possible experience.
Xbox Series X is the high-end console of the new generation of Microsoft consoles. As of November 10, both this model and the reduced-performance Xbox Series S will be released at a price of 499 euros and 299 euros, respectively. Apart from the differences that we comment here to understand why they will have such different prices, Microsoft has detailed through a new statement how they have designed their most powerful system, which will be endowed with great efficiency.
“Xbox Series X has the most powerful System on Chip (SoC) ever seen on Xbox”
In the words of Will Tuttle, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief, the Xbox design team has been taking note of things that were not convincing Xbox One gamers for years. Still, Carl Ledbetter, Associate Design Director; Chris Kujawski, lead designer for Xbox consoles; Nicolas Denhez, Senior Design Director; Ryan Whitaker, Senior Designer and Erika Kelter, Senior Designer present themselves as the visible heads of a design capable of ensuring a quiet gaming experience through the “most powerful” System on Chip (SoC) we’ve ever seen on an Xbox console.
“Creatively cooling that chip with a single axial fan found the optimal solution in terms of shape,” says Tuttle. He adds: “By splitting the motherboard in half and bolting each side to the center aluminum chassis, the team was able to draw a large amount of air through the entire system at a sound level low enough to operate the console. quietly and efficiently ”.
And we come to the fan of Xbox Series X, one of the main points of improvement of current generation consoles. The size of the fan, they say, determined the overall dimensions of the machine’s chassis to achieve an almost exact 2: 1 ratio, as if they were two stacked cubes where everything fits together as if they were pieces. “The team found that the small, square size of the console also lent itself to installation in a wider variety of spaces than a traditional console.” Despite being bulky, Xbox Series X will be just 6 inches wide by 6 inches deep (an exact square as the shape of its top and rear profile) and 12 inches long (or height). They call it, in short, an “intelligent geometry”.
It remains to be seen how this design materializes and if it finally meets expectations. In a few weeks we will be able to resolve doubts. Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S go on sale this November 10 at a price of 499 euros and 299 euros, respectively.
References | Xbox Wire
