Xbox One capable of avoiding overheating

You probably won’t have to worry about your Xbox One console overheating. That’s because it will be fully capable of regulating power to avoid any heat-related problems.

Microsoft general manager of console development Leo del Castillo told Gizmodo:

“One thing that we have more flexibility with. 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.”

“I don’t know the exact details of how it’ll show up to the user. 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.”

There you have it. We may be waiting on some of the specifics, but you can rest easy knowing that the Xbox One has a system in place to ensure that the hardware doesn’t heat up a bit too much.

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