Xbox One to Have 'Light Mode'

During this morning's Xbox Gamescom press conference, it was revealed that Xbox One and Xbox One X will be getting a "light mode."

[Abash]

Exactly what I have wanted from the beginning, can't wait to have a clean white background for the interface!

[UnHoly_One]

I can't imagine why anyone would want this.

It's a waste of energy to have your TV lighting up all that empty space for no reason.

Seems like it would be harder on the eyes, too.

[DARK_WOLF]

Its almost like different people have different tastes in colors

[UnHoly_One]

That's absolutely incorrect.

I have my TV plugged into an old Monster power center thing that actually displays the amount of power being drawn at any given time, and I can watch that number increase and decrease based on the amount of light the TV is showing in any given scene.

I've had that thing through 3 TVs, from DLP projection to edge lit Led, to 4k with Full Array Local Dimming, and they all work the same way.

More light = more power.

[UnHoly_One]

Ok, so you can give me all the scientific explanations you want, but I'm not going to take that over the example that I see in my living room every single night.

My Power center diplays a number on it that shows how much power is being drawn at any given time. It sits at about 1.1 amps with everything on standby. At max with everything going, I've seen it go up to 5 if I have everything on at once for some reason.

Last night I turned on Roku, and went to the UFC app and paid attention to the display as I was doing this. As the app was loading, the screen is all black except for a white "UFC.TV" in the middle of the screen. My power center showed 2.2a during this part. When it finished loading, and displayed the bright red and white menu that lights up half of the screen, my power draw went up to 3.5a.

Now, I can't begin to explain WHY, or HOW any of this stuff works. All I know is that this thing tells me my TV is sucking more power whenever more of the screen is lit up with bright things than when it is mostly black.

I don't care what the scientific reasoning for any of it is, because what I see in practice is "more light" requires "more power".

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Clean interface finally

[yomfweeee]

Their biggest news from the conference.

[mwjw696]

Age of Empires 4 says hi...

[yomfweeee]

Jokes say hi.

[gamer7804]

Sounds terrible honestly but as long as they keep the darker options that's fine for them to add a mode more options, i just don't need more pixels on my screen fully lit

[DialgaMarine]

Isn't this literally something the Switch does? Black/ White UI? I don't understand how this was news.

[kevnb]

i cant follow your logic.

[lellkay]

Looks slick.

[joab777]

Yeah!

[MilkMan]

They need to fix a ton of stuff. Making the UI lighter is utter nonsense. But whatever, I've come to expect mediocracy or worse from MS.

[mwjw696]

Someone needs more water in thier diet, you seem a bit salty.

[C-H-E-F]

lOl, wow, yet the ps5 5.00 update firmware was getting trashed by xbox gamers? And yall are all cheers about this... whoohooo!