Xbox One Update: Improvements Include Battery Power Meter And Manageable Storage Space

The Xbox One is about to receive a makeover. Microsoft Coporate Vice President Marc Whitten informed fans of improvements the next-gen console will undergo next week in an Xbox blog post.

“The team has been really excited to see the gameplay on Xbox One and the millions of hours of fun our fans have experienced since launch. We’ve also been busy listening to your feedback and working hard to incorporate it into Xbox One as soon as possible,” Whitten wrote Wednesday. “We remain incredibly energized and we are aggressively working to make Xbox One better, faster than ever before.”

Whitten assured gamers the changes will improve the user experience, but couldn’t reveal many details. “On February 11, the first update will be delivered to customers who sign into their Xbox One. It features many new improvements -- including lots of behind-the-scenes updates for developers building apps and games for Xbox One, several new features we believe Xbox fans will love, stability and product updates to improve the customer experience, and continuous improvements to the quality of Kinect voice so commands become more fluid and responsive over time. While we won’t be going into all of the details of the product updates today, we will be sharing more information soon.”

The changes will go into effect on Tuesday and will include the following updates and more [via the Xbog blog]:

- The ability to see and manage your storage space. With this update, you will find it easy to find how much space your content takes up and better manage your content. You can also control your install lineup and more easily manage your download queue. We’ve separated My Games and My Apps into separate lists, so you can easily create separate queues for both. Now you can pick the order in which you want your content to load and we’ve added a boot progress indicator so you can better track updates while they load.

- The battery power indicator is back! You can see it right on the home screen, so you can easily track how much battery life is left on your controller.

- And, you will be able to use your USB keyboard with your Xbox One.

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