Today at Microsoft's event in Redmond, Washington, officially announcing the Xbox One, among the details unveiled were specifications about the hardware that the next-generation console is packing, as detailed by Microsoft's Marc Whitten.
The Xbox One sports a reasonable set of specifications. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's several times better, faster, and more efficient than the Xbox 360.
That said, it's difficult to tell how well it compares to the PLayStation 4 as Microsoft has been slightly reticent with its actual specifications. Aside from the new Kinect that the Xbox One offers and the software built into the system, the specs look similar to its counterpart at Sony.
CPU: 8 Cores
Memory: 8GB System Memory
Hard Drive: Built-in 500 GB HDD
Optical Drive: Blu-Ray Drive
Communication: 802.11n Wireless with Wi-Fi Direct
I/O: USB 3.0
AV Output: HDMI In/Out
Main Processor: Single-chip custom processor
CPU: x86-64 AMD "Jaguar', 8 cores
GPU: 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon-based graphics engine
Memory: GDDR5 8GB
Hard Drive: Built-in
Optical Drive (read only): BD 6xCAV, DVD 8xCAV
I/O: Super-Speed USB (USB 3.0), AUX
Communication: Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T), IEEE 8.02.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 (EDR)
AV output: HDMI, Analog-AV out, Digital Output (optical)
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More details about the Xbox One, along with the games exclusive to the platform—fifteen in total, eight of which are all new IPs—will be revealed early next month at E3 in Los Angeles. It's unknown what games will be exclusive to the platform but it remains to be seen whether they'll be able to catch up with what Sony has to offer—and what Sony plans to offer at E3, just as well.