Xbox One will require an initial update to play and more information from several users who receive it in advance

You can tell that November 22 is close because we can't stop reading news and more news about Xbox One, the new Xbox console Microsoft that will hit the market in less than two weeks. The new ranges from what we can or cannot do as soon as we have it in our home to what some lucky people who have received it prematurely have been quick to tell.

It seems that the first Xbox One units on the market will not arrive with the latest version of the system installed.Microsoft had previously warned that there would be an initial update that would add news not included in the console start. The problem is that without that day one update we won't be able to do practically anything, not even play games.

The information has been confirmed by Albert Penello, director of product planning at Xbox, in an interview with the Engadget website. According to his words, we won't be able to do anything without the day one update. Many of the applications will come with this update because they could not be completed on time, so this will be an essential requirement to be able to enjoy our newly acquired consoles.

How big will that update be? 500MB. How do we know? Well, because the curious news of the last hours has been given by several users who have received their Xbox One two weeks before the scheduled date, courtesy of what seems to have been a mistake by the Target store chain.While some tried to do business with her on eBay, others have dedicated themselves to spreading details about her brand new console.

In this way, in addition to knowing the size of the initial update, we know that there are already next-generation games listed on Xbox Live, that we can play them even when the download is at 50%, or that the console takes 17 seconds to boot. Multitasking and video capture seem to work well, and Kinect does the best, which is so responsive that a user has even been able to control the system from a Skype call.

There are 13 days left for Xbox One to land definitively in 13 countries, including Spain. By then we will be able to evaluate for ourselves the work carried out by those from Redmond with the third generation of their video game console.

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