Xbox One

The Xbox One is Microsoft's third console and is classed as an "all-in-one entertainment system", hence the name.

Designed to be the centrepiece of your living room the console will the hub for gaming, TV, movies, apps and video calls via Skype. Just say the words "xbox on" then your TV and console turn themselves on and you will be greeted with your personal home screen showing your most liked content. Connecting to your TV is easy also with HDMI pass-thru in conjunction with your cable or satellite box saving you the need to manually switch inputs.

The console itself sports clean lines and sharp corners with a modern two tone black finish and a glowing white Xbox logo. A x86 processor with 8 cores delivers high performance coupled with 8GB of DDR3 memory and large storage with it's 500GB hard drive. A Blu-ray drive is included to load games and play high definition movies.

The controller looks similar to the it's predecessor, however over 40 improvements have been made with improved comfort in your hands from streamlined contours, re-aligned D-pad and thumbsticks together with vibrating triggers for more realistic gameplay.

Kinect is included as standard. This revolutionary sensor has been re-engineered to be more intuitive, precise and responsive. Field of view has been increased with the ability to see in dark rooms and pick out individual voices in a crowded noisy room. The smallest of physical gestures are now also sensed like the squeeze of a hand and even your heart rate! Up to 6 users can be monitored at the same time.

A new combined operating system based around gaming and Windows enables the Xbox One to effortlessly and instantly jump between games, television, movies and music or have a video call at the same time as playing a game.

SmartGlass turns your tablet or smart phone into a second screen to give additional content and functionality to games, TV, sports events and movies.