The shape and size of the Xbox One were designed to maximize the air flow in heat dissipation and to insert a large fan, therefore very silent, was already known; But what happens if we mistakenly block air intakes leading to problems of temperature rise?

Microsoft explains that the console has the necessary countermeasures to prevent this damage the internal hardware. For one thing, the fan is designed to offer optimal cooling at low speeds, which means you should start to increase the temperature inside the console if you will notice and will increase the fan speed to take it to the maximum.

If that doesn't solve the overheating problem, then you will go to the next step: the weakening of CPU and GPU, putting it in an "at rest", up to the complete shutdown of the console. Obviously this does not mean that the games that we are doing will begin to go in spurts because the system runs more slowly, but that it will be "frozen", with a message that warns us of the problem before we can restart the game when maybe we will have removed the encyclopedia that we place on the console error blocking the ventilation device. All this should prevent the console from overheating to dangerous levels.

Obviously these are normal things in the world, but a relative novelty in the world given the console had problems in the past by Xbox 360 overheating problems. And more safety for future owners of the console.