The Xbox One is a huge, hulking beast with a huge hulking power supply dragging it down. By comparison the Xbox 360 is dinky.
The Xbox One measures an XXL 33.3cm wide, 27.4cm deep and 7.9cm tall. The Xbox 360 is 27cm wide, 26cm deep and 7.5cm tall, which is quite a lot smaller than the Xbox One. Even the first iteration of the Xbox 360 was smaller (if a touch fatter) 30.9cm wide, 25.8cm deep and 8.3cm tall.One of the reasons Microsoft has made the Xbox One so chunky is to give it room to breathe. The smaller Xbox 360 suffered from some well-documented overheating problems, which were partly to blame for the Red Ring of Death problems that cost Microsoft over a billion dollars. There’s no wonder why Microsoft has played it safe with the Xbox One. The Xbox One has been designed to be switched on for its whole anticipated 10-year life cycle and we haven’t heard of any major issues with it since it launched.
The chunky design all set to change with the svelte Xbox One S. The new Xbox is 40% smaller than the original and comes with an inbuilt power brick, which means it will fit in tighter spaces and can be stood upright. Nice. If you can, wait for it to be released in August before buying an Xbox One.If you’re into voice commands or motion gaming features, you’ll also want to consider the Xbox One Kinect. Originally, it came pre-packaged with the Xbox One console itself, but now you can buy the console cheaper without it.
The Xbox One Kinect is smaller than the original Kinect, measuring up at 6.68cm tall 6.6cm deep 24.9cm wide compared to the original’s 7.62cm tall, 7.62cm deep, 27.9cm wide dimensions.
Of course, the Xbox One Kinect is far more advanced than the original, with better body recognition, wider field of vision for play in smaller spaces and enhanced voice commands. We would say that the Xbox One UI is far easier to navigate with Kinect, as often it can be tricky to find certain options or settings with the Wireless Controller alone.
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