It was described and marketed as "an elite controller for the elite gamer", containing interchangeable parts, "hair trigger locks" for the triggers that allow users to reduce the amount of distance they must be pressed to register a press, and software for remapping buttons. The console was also panned for missing certain promised features on-launch, such as Upload Studio, game streaming, and certain apps/services. Hardware Design The Xbox One S features a smaller casing and other design changes over the original Xbox One model. To assist in optimizing the new hardware to run existing games at 4K resolution, Microsoft developers used internal debugging software to collect GPU traces from major titles that did not run at full 1080p resolution on the original Xbox One.

Original Xbox compatibility The first Xbox videogame revealed to be compatible with the Xbox One was Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge.

Jeff Cork said that Microsoft had "some great ideas" for the console, but that it failed to properly communicate them. has an improved accuracy over its predecessor; it can track up to 6 people simultaneously, referred to as "skeletons", perform heart rate tracking, track controller gestures, and read QR codes to redeem Xbox Live gift cards. Users could access their purchased games from any other Xbox One console, play games without their disc once installed, and allow users to "share" their games with up to ten designated "family" members.

was released as a standalone and optional item in October 2014; it is bundled with a digital copy of Dance Central Spotlight. Microsoft does not anticipate that there will be as many Xbox titles brought to the program as with the Xbox 360, primarily due to legal issues related to intellectual property, contracts, and companies that have since gone defunct. The controller can also be used in conjunction with Copilot—a feature introduced in 2017 that allows multiple controllers to be used in tandem on behalf of a single player. Microsoft's Xbox One S is a great entry-level console for consumers who are new to gaming, or wish to pick up a machine which doubles as a 4K blu-ray player. One trigger can be made to vibrate when firing a gun, or both can work together to create feedback that indicates the direction of an incoming hit.

Most industry analysts have estimated Xbox One's lifetime sales to be around 50 million [270] [271] to 51 million units. Choudhry brought on previous engineers that worked on Trioxide, including Kevin La Chapelle, Jonathan Morrison, and Barry Bond, to restart the program. Games marketed by Microsoft as Xbox One X Enhanced have specific optimizations for graphical fidelity on the console's hardware. These resources were previously reserved for Kinect skeletal tracking, regardless of whether the Kinect sensor was attached or in use. Easily manage your children’s console activities all from your phone in real time with the Xbox Family Settings app.

Phil Spencer stated that this rule was intended to ensure that Xbox One was a "first-class" platform by discouraging staggered releases. Initial hardware for the 360's successor, commonly referred to by the industry as the "Xbox 720", [23] was reportedly under development as early as May 2011. This boost in sales caused the Xbox One to be the best-selling console for two months in a row for the first time in the UK, in September and October 2016, with 99,496 units sold during the latter month. The Xbox One is the successor to Xbox 360, Microsoft's previous video game console, which was introduced in November 2005 as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. Xbox Series S is designed for disc-free gaming at 1440p (with the ability to upscale to 4K) and you can choose between 512GB SSD or 1TB SSD.While praised for having more "robust" voice navigation than Xbox 360, they felt that voice navigation still had a " learning curve in understanding what works and what doesn't. of hard drive space is used by the operating system, with the remainder available for the storage of games. The Xbox Wireless Controller maintains the overall layout found in the Xbox 360's controller, but with various refinements to its form.

In October 2015, Microsoft announced that it would no longer publish sales figures for the system, instead focusing on Xbox Live engagement figures.The memory subsystem also features an additional 32MB of "embedded static" RAM, or ESRAM, with a memory bandwidth of 109GB/s. As a result of the negative feedback from the May presentation, the press event for E3 2013 focused on the video game functionality of the Xbox One first and foremost; Don Mattrick, then Microsoft's president of Interactive Entertainment Business, described the event as "all about the games". There is a USB port and a controller-pairing button at the front, where before they were hidden away at the side. The overall interface was also considered more intuitive and flexible than that of PlayStation 4, but its game library view was described as being a "jumbled, sadly unfilterable rows of every owned piece of software", that also knowingly listed games that require their disc to run alongside those which did not.