This also functions as a button, and will light up white when the controller is active. It’s matte black, with a shiny black stroke at the top bearing the Xbox One logo. Its overall shape is very similar to that of its predecessor, but with a more angular design. It does look pretty nice though, and like the console it has a white Xbox One logo that lights up when it is switched on. The games are Forza 5, Dance Central Spotlight and Fifa 15.Īs mentioned earlier, it also comes with a headset, for online communication. To make up for the delay, Microsoft included some games with the console, available as digital downloads. Then there is another box inside holding all the remaining items: manuals, cables, a headset, the Kinect and the controller. The front is also divided in two, with the left side (in matte black) holding the disc drive and the other half (shiny black) the power switch, a touch pad that lights up with a white Xbox One logo when the console is switched on. One half consists of shiny black plastic (with an Xbox One logo in the corner), the other half has a diagonal grid meant for ventilation. In terms of design the system is very straightforward: a simple rectangular shape, but the simplicity works well. It also has a big power adapter, and then there’s the Kinect camera also taking up space. The console looks quite sleek if you ask me, although it is really large, by far the biggest of the three consoles. Even the plastic handle bears the Xbox One logo. And it must be said that the packaging looks rather nice: black with in a shiny layer a low key picture of the console and of the controller. It comes with the standard black console and includes a Kinect, but also has a special Day One controller.įirst thing to do is to remove the outer sleeve, which makes the box look a lot better, now that the free games printed on the side are gone. The Day One Edition is the version shown here. But there is also a Day One Edition as there was at the original launch, which makes sense because after all, this is the console’s Day One for these remaining markets. Most importantly, a cheaper version without Kinect, and several other bundles are on the way. In any case, the console is out now, and by this time there are already several more options available than when it launched in the Tier 1 countries. The remaining countries where so-called ‘Tier 2’ territories. It probably has to do with Microsoft wanting to focus on the more important markets, especially the US, since that is where they dominated last generation. What’s more, the Xbox One released in the Netherlands still doesn’t support Dutch voice commands, so if this was the reason, Microsoft failed spectacularly. Why did they make this decision? The initial story was that Microsoft wanted to localize Kinect speech commands for the remaining countries, but this seems like an unnecessarily radical measure for something so trivial. It’s kind of a weird situation, because the console has been out for almost a year in parts of Europe, whereas other parts haven’t received Microsoft’s new console yet until now. After a delay of about nine months, on September 5th 2014 the Xbox One was finally officially released in all of Europe.
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