REDMOND, Wa. August 16 - The Xbox One is self-aware, or at least enough to take the appropriate countermeasures when the next-gen console gets too hot, Xbox general manager of console development Leo del Castillo told Gizmodo in an interview published yesterday.
“We can’t prevent misuse of the product," del Castillo explained, "but we can certainly anticipate it."
"The way we designed the box, we don’t actually intend it to ever have to go to maximum speed under normal environmental conditions. But there is overhead. So we’ll allow the fan to go all the way up to its maximum speed and if that solves the condition without the user having to do anything."
The console will lower its power usage in response if it really feels like things are going critical, though likely at the cost of performance... a worthwhile trade if the preventative course of action saves the $500 console.
"One thing that we have more flexibility with," del Castillo added, "With the architecture of the Xbox One, is that we can dial back the power of the box considerably. We had a little less flexibility with the 360. And so basically, if we couldn’t dissipate the heat, there wasn’t a whole lot of leverage we could pull to keep the heat from being generated, so we had a limited amount of time before it just shut down. Xbox One can actually dial it back to a lower power state, so low in fact that it can in a mode that uses virtually no air flow."
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