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Microsoft has improved the Xbox One’s processor speed by almost 10 per cent, boosting the CPU from 1.6GHz to 1.75GHz.
The boost coincided with the announcement that Xbox One had now entered full production in advance of its release this November.
“In terms of how Xbox One’s going, we’re on track for launch in November,” said Microsoft’s IEB CVP of marketing and strategy Yusuf Mehdi, speaking at the Citi Global Technology Conference. “We’ll announce a launch date shortly. We recently just went into full production, so we’re now producing in mass the Xbox One consoles.
“We’ve had real good progress on the system. In fact, we just updated the CPU performance to 1.75GHz on top of the graphics performance improvement, so the system is really going to shine.”
The improvement to the CPU is the second hardware boost to the console in two months. Last month, Microsoft announced that it had boosted the GPU speed from 800MHz to 853MHz.
Xbox’s senior director of product planning and management Albert Penello took to NeoGAF, adding that “devs should start seeing this soon – so any performance gains were happening on the 1.6 boxes. (everything at PAX was on the 1.6). This is a boost to developers on top of the optimizations going on”.
Mehdi also revealed that Microsoft is expecting the launch of Xbox One to be the biggest Xbox launch ever.
“We’ve been sold out on pre-orders on Xbox One for several weeks now,” he continued. “We’ve built more than we’ve ever built for an Xbox launch. We are on track to have the biggest launch we’ve ever done by a wide margin for console… and I expect there’ll be multiple millions of people enjoying Xbox through the holidays.
Xbox One launches in November for £429.99.
Source: media-server.com
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