Microsoft hence installed an enormous heat sink into the Xbox One. How massive is it exactly? Check it out below.

The heat sink covers about a quarter of the entire chip’s surface area, and is composed of 3 copper heat pipes. Check out how this compares to the Xbox 360’s heat sink in size, including the number of copper heat pipes in place.

With rumours still abounding of the Blue Light of Death for the PS4, will it be enough to ensure the Xbox One avoids any hardware faults? We’ll find out in the coming months but in case you were wondering why the box is so big, here’s one of the reasons.

The Xbox One launches today across 13 territories, with Dead Rising 3, Forza Motorsport 5, Ryse: Son of Rome and Killer Instinct as launch titles.

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According to the official Xbox 360 forums, numerous Xbox 360 users are encountering issues with their consoles when trying to connect their newly purchased Kinect devices to the console.

The issues range from being minor to being as severe as encountering a RROD.

“It’s very disappointing,” said one ten year old’s father, whose 360 RRODed after using Kinect. “We were planning to have a big New Year’s Day party with karaoke microphones and a Take That competition.

“But now the Xbox is just sitting idle.”

When quizzed about the same, a MS representative denied that Kinect was responsible

“There is no correlation between the three flashing red lights error and Kinect,” a spokesperson told the BBC. “Any new instances of the three flashing red lights error are merely coincidental.”

Well, one or two instances might be a “coincidence” however, the numbers seems to be increasing. Is any of you encountering a similar problem after connecting Kinect to your console?

Let us know below.

It is also natural that assuming there are any issues with the newer Xbox, they’ll be blown totally out of proportion, thanks to the problems that plagues the original, and because well, it’s Microsoft we’re talking about here.

So then, reports seem to suggest that the new Xbox 360 is already suffering many hardware failures, thanks to the same overheating issues that wreaked havoc on the old 360 models. The new error, called the Dot of Death (it’s at times like this I want to shoot myself), seems to lead to a complete crash of the console.

Microsoft graciously took the time to respond to the issue:

“We couldn’t be more proud of the consoles we are building now, as well as the new Xbox 360. This console is the culmination of years of continuous innovation in design, testing and learning. Today we are confident we are shipping a high quality product.”

Oh. Okay.

The new Xbox 360 was announced at Microsoft’s E3 showing where it was also given away to all journalists present. It’s a bit smaller, has built in Wi fi, is supposed to have addressed all the hardware issues of the old Xbox 360, and costs the same as the old models. It’s also been available in stores for nearly two weeks now.