The Xbox 1 is purposely oversized

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theprof00 said:

Don't fall for it Chris, that is a BS excuse you're being fed.
A die-shrink won't shrink the console by 40%.
Look at that space in the top left. It's like 20% of the console size, and as pure and empty as the driven snow. You could literally turn the hard drive sideways, or even externalize it in a wafer thin side mount, and shrink the console size in half, without a die shrink. Again, red-herring.

PS4 will also get a die shrink, because it's nearly the same exact processor. The console will not get smaller.

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