Xbox One

Xbox One is an upcoming Video Game Console developed and manufactured by Microsoft

 

Xbox One games will be distributed on Blu-ray Disc and digitally through Xbox Games Store
Games will be installed directly to the player's hard drive for faster access time, and will require the disc to play

Announced on May 21, 2013, it is the successor to the Xbox360 and is the third console in the Xbox family

Xbox One

CPU: Custom 1.75 GHz AMD 8 core APU (2 Quad-Core Jaguar modules)
Memory: 8GB DDR3
Graphics: 853 MHz AMD Radeon GCN architecture
Display: up to 2160p

Xbox 360

CPU: 3.2 GHz PowerPC Tri-core Xenon
Memory: 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM clocked at 700MHz
Graphics: 500MHz ATI Xenos
Display: up to 1080p

 It will directly compete with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Wii U  as part of the 8th Generation of Video Game Consoles.
 


Xbox One is scheduled for release across North America, several European markets, Australia, and New Zealand on November 22, 2013,with later release in Japan and the remaining European markets in 2014

Microsoft has taken over London's Leicester Square and built a giant Xbox stage, pictured, for the first ever live concert in the square tonight. Performances are expected from Katy B and Plan B to celebrate the midnight launch of the new Xbox One console

Thousands queued in the cold and rain for the chance to own the new Xbox One.Consoles went on sale from midnight at 500 stores across UK

Charlie Pulbrook gets his hands on the first Xbox One in the UK at the Trocadero Leicester Square, which was renamed Xbox One Square to celebrate the moment in video game history

      

Hundreds of fans applauded Charlie Pulbrook, who was the first person in the UK to buy the new Xbox

      

Actors dressed as characters from the Xbox One game 'Ryse: Son of Rome' walk through Times Square as they arrive at the midnight launch in New York