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Photo I took
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...55/xboxone.jpg
So yeah, its massive
Yeah, they were terrified of heat issues so bad they even underclocked the SoC.
Well, they wanted to call it the Xbox One, and so they had to make it the same size as the real Xbox1.
That's honestly a shitty picture. Looks like it's covered in a big plastic safe thingy so people can't steal it, etc etc whatever.
If you look, the button on the right (power button) is about the midway point for its height:
And the plughole (wat) on the left there is about the bottom. I have no idea all the shit it's on but that's a bad picture.
In reality it's moreso the size of the second-iteration Xbox 360, maybe even the first. Not too different really, aside from a more squared design.
Edit: Fixed image
Take a look at my picture again, and then at the one posted. Unless Microsoft has been hiding something in all of their press shots, as well as oh I don't know, the official unboxing of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbrmAsxJPv4
I don't know why the height of it looks so damn skewed in that picture of the guy playing, but it's definitely not THAT huge.
There's definitely something underneath the console, lifting it up, evidenced by that apparent gap right above the player's right hand.