Microsoft Says to Stand Your Xbox One Vertically ‘At Your Own Risk’

<p>Out of all the things these next gen systems can and can&&num;8217&semi;t do&comma; I never thought I&&num;8217&semi;d be told to &&num;8216&semi;not&&num;8217&semi; stand my system a certain way&period; But this seems to be the case wih the Xbox One&comma; as Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s Albert Penello has stated that the console doesn&&num;8217&semi;t make nice with a vertical orientation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Said Penello to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;tgs&sol;microsoft-on-xbox-one-vertical-orientation-do-it-at-your-own-risk-6414731&sol;">GameSpot<&sol;a> while at TGS&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We don&&num;8217&semi;t support vertical orientation&semi; do it at your own risk&period; It wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be a cooling problem&comma; we just didn&&num;8217&semi;t design the drive for vertical&period; Because it&&num;8217&semi;s a slot loading drive&comma; we just didn&&num;8217&semi;t design it for both&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Penello went on to say that Microsoft discovered that about 80&percnt; of Xbox 360 owners have their system in a horizontal position&period; I&comma; myself&comma; have both of my consoles &&num;8211&semi;Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3&&num;8211&semi; positioned horizontally&comma; but that&&num;8217&semi;s mostly because I&&num;8217&semi;m afraid it would fall over if it were vertical&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This does make me wonder how the Xbox 360&comma; PS3 and PS4 all manage to have slot loading drives and work just fine&comma; regardless or their orientation&comma; but the Xbox One cannot&period; Well&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re told to do it at our own risk&comma; so I guess we&&num;8217&semi;ll find out what happens to an Xbox One in a vertical position when it launches in November&period; Who wants to experiment&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;