{"id":80761,"date":"2015-09-01T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T08:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80761"},"modified":"2015-09-01T10:39:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T08:39:11","slug":"new-xbox-one-bundle-includes-1tb-hybrid-drive-and-elite-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/80761-new-xbox-one-bundle-includes-1tb-hybrid-drive-and-elite-controller","title":{"rendered":"New Xbox One bundle includes 1TB Hybrid Drive and Elite Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without doing much of anything, minus the addition of a 1TB hard drive, Sony have released their PS4 \u201cUltimate Player Edition<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

The 1TB hard drive is nice, a vast improvement over 500GB certainly, but it hardly qualifies it to be called \u201cUltimate\u201d; the bundle doesn\u2019t even include their new and improved CUH-1200<\/a> model.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has taken a decidedly different route with their ultimate bundle, entitled the \u201cElite Bundle\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

Like the PS4\u2019s Ultimate Player Edition, the Xbox One Elite Bundle includes a 1TB hard drive, but in the case of the Xbox One, it\u2019s a solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD).<\/p>\n

The SSHD, like its name suggests, has a smaller solid-state partition and a larger mechanical drive. The solid-state partition is around 8GB in size, so only the most frequently used files will be stored there by the Xbox One, ultimately culminating in quicker boot-up times \u2013 Microsoft suggests a 20% improvement.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, games are too large to fit on the partition, so you won\u2019t likely see an improvement to loading times once within a game.<\/p>\n

The Elite Bundle console will also support the matte, rather than the glossy, finish, but is for the most part the same console model available in any other bundle.<\/p>\n

The best thing about the Elite Bundle, giving credence to its name, is the addition of an Elite Controller.<\/p>\n

\"Xbox<\/a><\/p>\n

We love the Xbox One\u2019s Elite Controller<\/a>, perhaps even more so than SCUF\u2019s own, immensely capable third-party Infinity1 controller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A $150 (R1, 900 odd) controller and 1TB SSHD is a pretty sweet bundle which, for the moment, is only available to American retailer Gamestop<\/a> as well as MicrosoftStore.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whether it will made available locally is up in the air at the moment, but we\u2019d love to get our hands on that controller \u2013 the entire bundle is pretty nice too.<\/p>\n

\"Xbox<\/a><\/p>\n

Alongside the new Elite Bundle, Microsoft has also unveiled the all-new Lunar White Xbox One Wireless Controller, and it\u2019s a beaut.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s essentially a standard controller, sporting any and all updates made to the controller of late, but with awesome colour scheme.<\/p>\n

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Source: The Xbox Wire<\/a><\/p>\n

In other Xbox One news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Xbox One may support original Xbox through backwards compatibility<\/a><\/p>\n

Stream to Windows 10 in 1080p at 60fps via the Xbox App<\/a><\/p>\n

Forza 6\u2019s extreme detail to come at a price, a 44 GB install size<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As well as an all new Lunar White Wireless Controller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9741,15667,15661,91,1969,15663,15665,10065,15659],"class_list":["post-80761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-1tb","tag-hybrid-drive","tag-lunar-white-wireless-controller","tag-microsoft","tag-news-2","tag-sshd","tag-xbox-elite-wireless-controller","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-one-elite-bundle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}