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introducing xbox one with its latest console Microsoft aims to appeal to more than just gamers we're thrilled to unveil the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system team Xbox is on a new mission design and build an all-in-one system to light up a new generation of games TV and entertainment with Xbox one users can stream content watch movies and television make group video calls with Skype and of course play games the system consists of a controller a rather bulky set-top box and connect Microsoft's motion sensing device which lets users control the system with gestures now if I want to go home I just grab and I'm home well we're gonna create a new set of Universal gestures to control your entire TV experience for those tired of fumbling with remotes Xbox one offers voice commands xbox game go to TV go to music watch TV crammed inside Xbox one a blu-ray player eight core processor 8 gigabytes of RAM and a 500 gigabyte hard drive the dim side of the improved technology is that Xbox one isn't backwards compatible this is a kind of serious issue for people of a huge library of games and who maybe wanted to upgrade their console or people would just bought an Xbox 360 recently there's no real remedy for this right now but we can assume that Microsoft is probably gonna sell a lot of that old software through Xbox Live but Microsoft is looking beyond games it announced a new live-action TV series based on the immensely popular game Halo to be directed by Steven Spielberg and so for me the Halo universe is an amazing opportunity to be at that intersection where technology and myth-making meet Spielberg may be a big draw but Microsoft needs to convince users in another crucial way one of the big hurdles at Microsoft faces is we just don't know a price yet this could be 7 or $800 for all we know we won't know that till III probably which is in June the price is expected to be revealed at the upcoming III gaming conference along with competing device and game announcements Sony is hinting at something big with a cryptic ps4 teaser video it may be gaming but it's serious business for CNET news I'm Sumi das