14 DAY TRIAL // Albert Panello, one of the team leaders for the Xbox One team at Microsoft, says that the device has not been designed to stand vertically and that all gamers who place it in that position are risking a hardware failure.
The executive told Gamespot at the Tokyo Game Show that, “We don't support vertical orientation; do it at your own risk. It wouldn't be a cooling problem, we just didn't design the drive for vertical. Because it's a slot loading drive, we just didn't design it for both.”
Panello says that internal figures from his company show that most gamers, around 80 percent, are placing their Xbox 360 horizontally.
Both the PlayStation 4 and the PS3 from Sony feature a slot loading drive and the company has not issued any warning about a positional restriction for the two devices.
The Xbox One will be launched on November 22 in 13 core markets, while other gamers will have to wait until 2014.