Xbox One X Couldn’t Have Been Smaller Than It Is Without Being Noisier, Suggests Microsoft Exec

The Xbox One X is the most powerful console ever made- but stunningly, it is also the smallest Xbox ever made, smaller than the Xbox 360 Slim or 360 Elite, and smaller than the Xbox One S as well. Microsoft achieving this is a testament to their engineering skill- but could they realistically have gone any smaller?

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Interesting.

[cannon8800]

Not interesting, more like common sense lol

[freshslicepizza]

A lot of engineering went into this. Now that they have the hardware down pat they will have to put more focus on game development.

[fenome]

That's impressive, I didn't know it was even smaller than the slim.

[ULTp0ltergeist]

I saw how they put it together and you can tell alot of R&D money went in 1X

[FallenAngel1984]

Microsoft needs to keep making small consoles going forward

[omegaheat]

It's almost like Sony and Microsoft traded places. This time around Microsoft's upgrade console is significantly more powerful than Sony's upgrade console. Theirs also a bigger power gap between the X and Pro than there was between the vanilla PS4 and Xbox One.

[ULTp0ltergeist]

@omegaheat

Fact

[segamaniaco]

40% is not that big

300% would be

[Prince_TFK]

Segamaniaco

Realistically that is the highest power they could go with without making the thing cost $1000+.

40% power different might not seem big on paper, but it make a huge different for the devs, especially as seen in games like Anthem.

[Einhander1971]

Stunning design to be smaller than Xbox one s

[SpaceRanger]

It's smaller on one end by 5mm. It's not as big of a difference as they led on. Stunning regardless.

[ziggurcat]

the fact that they were able to make it smaller that the S is pretty impressive.

[InKnight7s]

So why the OG one was sooooooooo big with external power supply why no hard effort for it? MS doing things with very weak management.

[hamburgerhill]

You gotta start somewhere. I was thinking the 1 X would be huge so this is most definitely impressive!

[XMarkstheSpot]

Probably to regulate air flow and avoid a RRoD fiasco

[Ausbo]

Yeah looks like they played it real safe with the cooling on the first box

[Kassanova07]

Very impressive, this box...

[B1uBurneR]

We are going from being a VCR to a stand alone 4K blu ray player design . I can dig it.

[Cy]

Part of me wishes it had some really cool and unique design, but I'm still impressed by how small it is. I was expecting it to be bigger than the launch One.

[classic19]

Lets just hope that redlight dont say hi. That said x1x is a sexy console

[MazeRunner]

just making it smaller than the S is an impressive thing. all MS needs to do is to keep improving them dev kits so games can be ported to the X with ease. lock some third party exclusives and you have a winner

[breakdancefight]

Of all the things complained about post E3 the size on the One X wasn't on the list. They have been able to cram 4 additional gigs of ram and new SoC with vapor cooling solution at a smaller size than the S.