x1 Xbox One and Design: Perspective from the Xbox One Design Team

[BajiRav]

Some good views of the hardware, I am kind of liking the design.

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[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

looking good now we just need to see E3 and what games are going where to decide which one to buy first lol.

[shakey]

Too many buzz words for things that don't really need it.... Talk to me straight. When they use these expressions they keep using, it just seems to really undermine everything to me. To me, it's trying too hard for something that you don't have to really do. I hate it in any advertisement.

Still really dislike the matte/slick design.

[TheLegendOfMart]

They made it black and look like a settop box, don't see the point in a 6 minute video filled with hyperbolic phrases.

[BajiRav]

Too many buzz words for things that don't really need it.... Talk to me straight. When they use these expressions they keep using, it just seems to really undermine everything to me. To me, it's trying too hard for something that you don't have to really do. I hate it in any advertisement.

Still really dislike the matte/slick design.

Yeah the first few mins are painful (and then some). :/

They made it black and look like a settop box, don't see the point in a 6 minute video filled with hyperbolic phrases.

They also talk about controller and Kinect. so it's more than the box. (let's be honest, it's a marketing cycle in action).

[TheLegendOfMart]

I think it would have looked a lot better in matt black instead of half and half matte and gloss.

I do love that it's black though, looks very sleek and I am interested in trying the impulse triggers, hopefully the pad will become a standard for PC games like the 360 one did and that they didn't ruin how comfortable the 360 controller is.

[123456789A]

I am going to mod my Xbox One to look like this...

[Livin in a box]

I am going to mod my Xbox One to look like this...

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I wouldn't be surprised for that panel there to have some of these details on, I'm not so sure it's going to just be left as black, especially with the placement of the Xbox logo where it is.

[spenser.d]

Looks sexy.

[Vandalsquad]

Don't understand why anyone has problem with the xbox design? It fits in perfectly with my big screen tv, foxtel box and home theatre box.

It fits in perfectly with an adults lounge room. It isn't something that is going into a 12 year old boys bedroom. It's grown up and matured the same as the gamers playing it.

[Torolol]

looks stackable like classic NES

[the better twin]

Don't understand why anyone has problem with the xbox design? It fits in perfectly with my big screen tv, foxtel box and home theatre box.

It fits in perfectly with an adults lounge room. It isn't something that is going into a 12 year old boys bedroom. It's grown up and matured the same as the gamers playing it.

Well its just so ... safe.

It doesnt look like they put much thought into it at all, they just shoved the components into a DVR style box.

[Torolol]

i wonder how much weight (kg) you can stacks above the xbox one without breaking it.

[TheLegendOfMart]

Well it has a steel shell wrapped in a plastic shell so quite a lot of weight I can imagine.

[Kriz]

I am going to mod my Xbox One to look like this...

Looks like my old panasonic VHS player..

[ctrl_alt_delete]

Well to me the design is Ok. It's nothing ooh ahh but it's not bad to look at. I'm hoping this thing runs cool because it's going under my TV, not on the bottom shelf, but right under it.

[BajiRav]

Well its just so ... safe.

It doesnt look like they put much thought into it at all, they just shoved the components into a DVR style box.

but..but...liquid black!

[ctrl_alt_delete]

but..but...liquid black!

I want to see what that liquid black looks like when I dim my lights. if I can still see the console then I'll be ****ed.

I hate seeing that light on my set top box, so here's hoping for little to no lights on the XO.

[BajiRav]

I want to see what that liquid black looks like when I dim my lights. if I can still see the console then I'll be ****ed.

I hate seeing that light on my set top box, so here's hoping for little to no lights on the XO.

I hope the Xbox globes on the box and Kinect don't glow. That will be some serious distraction. Is that Xbox logo actually a power button for the box?

[Crisp]

People talking about stacking, you know the top is a vent right?

They're clearly going to slap a big heatsink / fan under it.

[BajiRav]

People talking about stacking, you know the top is a vent right?

They're clearly going to slap a big heatsink / fan under it.

Guess you haven't seen this...

[Crisp]

Guess you haven't seen this...

Nope, but still proves my point. Top vent is an exhaust.

[ctrl_alt_delete]

I hope the Xbox globes on the box and Kinect don't glow. That will be some serious distraction. Is that Xbox logo actually a power button for the box?

I have no clue if it's a power but on my 360 I hardly touch the console (only to change discs). I mostly use the controller to turn it on and off (sometimes let it power down by itself).

with the XO I can just walk into my room/den and say something like "xbox on" and then 10 seconds later, "xbox play game" or "xbox play music" or "xbox play ID discovery channel".....all without touching the controller or tv. so really I don't even need to see where the XO is, after all I won't need to change game discs at all...only to install them.

[BajiRav]

Nope, but still proves my point. Top vent is an exhaust.

Yup, just wanted to support your post with a more obvious photo.

[Emn1ty]

To be honest, that video was a bit of a waste of time. The entire thing was talking about being simple, when in fact they didn't make it simple they just made it standard. Simplicity is not something that fits neatly in a box quite so literally. There are hundreds of ways they could have designed it, but in the end of the day what they should have said is:

We know how the entertainment center works, and we know that you won't be staring at our console 99% of the time. What matters is the content on screen so why waste time making our hardware the centerpiece when it should be the software?