Xbox One - The Hardware Specifications

Last week, at Microsoft's low-key Xbox One architecture and hardware panel, company technical executives elaborated and expanded on how the new console will interact with and be improved by cloud computing.

The Xbox One is a powerful piece of hardware with 8GB RAM, 64-bit processors and a hefty amount of additional humph. As usual the questions have cropped up on how the console will be able to hanle itself as time passes and the hardware ages. As Xbox One Director of development Boyd Multerer pointed out, "You'll still have a limited number of transistors in your house; in your box."

But the Xbox One is built to communicate with servers via a cloud system to increase the computational potential of the system. Boyd continued "[a developer] can start doing things like shifting latency insensitive things to the cloud. You may have a limited number of transistors in your house, but you have an unlimited number of transistors in the cloud"

Obviously as bandwidth improves, there is potential for actual game computations to be off-loaded to servers in the cloud, essentially allowing the Xbox One to become more powerful over time as more and more transistors are connected to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.

Microsoft are going for an "ever-evolving, powerful world [in the cloud] that [they] can tap into."

"This is not going to be as static a console as we've seen in the past," Multerer enthused.

Given that the Xbox One doesn't require an online connection – as per previous rumours - it's unknown specifically how game developers will be able to take advantage of cloud computation. One potential possibility is that only gamers connected to the Internet with a fast enough connection will be able to take advantage of the computational power of servers in the cloud and experience an increasingly powerful-feeling of the new console.

With E3 only a few weeks away we can expect to hear even more on this new innovation and they ways Microsoft plan to edge Sony in the market.