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this is josh lowensohn for cnet and i'm here taking a look at the xbox one this is microsoft's brand new xbox launching later this year what's big and new pretty much everything we have a brand new version of kinect a brand new console and new controllers kind of a big deal they finally added blu-ray which of course Microsoft picked the wrong camp with the xbox 360 picking HD DVD so now we have something that is pretty much ubiquitous with high-definition discs on the back we have a bunch of USB 3 ports HDMI but the big new deal is that they want this to be the centerpiece of your living room that means it works with television now live television you can switch two channels and a lot of its voice controlled so you can just say switch to TV switch to a certain channel xbox show the guide there's even a built-in programming guide we don't yet know a price for this or some of the big launch games we got a couple demos today but microsoft said we're going to know more about that at e3 which is the second week of june here from redmond this is josh lowensohn for cnet take a look at the xbox one