During its E3 2016 press conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft has unveiled its newest, redesigned and smaller version of the Xbox One console that will be known as the Xbox One S.

The new console is 40 percent smaller compared to the original and comes with plenty of updates, including a Ultra HD Blu-ray optical drive as well as support for both 4K resolution and HDR.

The Xbox One S probably comes with same core specifications as the original Xbox One, which means it has the same APU, which is now probably done on a smaller manufacturing process. In case you missed it, the original Xbox One is running on an eight-core 1.75GHz AMD Jaguar APU (with two quad-core modules) and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. There is still a possibility that the Xbox One S will us Bristol Ridge APU but that is left to be confirmed.

In order to make it a 40 percent smaller, Microsoft has removed the bulky PSU and replaced it with smaller one. The base model of the Xbox One S will have 500GB HDD but there will be a couple of other versions with 1TB and 2TB HDDs. Microsoft also added an Ultra HD Blu-ray optical drive as well as provided it with support for 4K 3840x2160 resolution via HDMI 2.0a output.

The price of the new Xbox One S is set at US $299/€299 for the 500GB version and US $349/€349 for the 1TB version while the 2TB model will be limited to select markets at US $399/€399.

The 2TB limited edition version is already up for pre-order and expected to ship in August while standard version should be available soon after, probably in September.







Source: Xbox.com.