In the recent conference held by Microsoft they announced a new, next generation, console, the Xbox One. Microsoft were kind enough to disclose some of the specifications of the new hardware which include 8 Gigabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM) and a 500 Gigabyte hard drive. They also revealed that it will feature a Blu-Ray disc drive like the current PlayStation 3 has. Moreover Microsoft announced that while they current have 15,000 servers running the current version of Xbox Live, they are increasing that number over 200 times stating that the Xbox Live used by Xbox One will be hosted by 300,000 servers which will help with many of the cloud services the company also announced. Furthermore the console will be powered by an 8 core x86 processor, in comparison the PlayStation 4 will use an 8 core AMD Jaguar processor. Finally the new console will also feature USB 3.0 connections.

Full specifications for the console can be found below:

8GB RAM

5 Billion Transistors

USB 3.0

Wifi direct

Blu ray

500GB HDD

8 Core x86 Processor

HDMI

Three Operating Systems

300,000 servers

Are you excited about the Xbox One? Do you think you’ll be picking up the new Microsoft console day one? Are you still convinced that the PlayStation 4 is a better option? Let us know in the comments section below.