微软(Microsoft Corp.)周二发布了全新的Xbox视频游戏机，展示了其先进的体感和声控系统以及新的电视节目播放功能。在消费者需求不断变化之际，该公司正努力使这款设备重新成为关注焦点。
Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.66% unveiled a reinvented Xbox videogame console Tuesday, demonstrating an advancedmotion and voice-control system and new television functions as it tries to thrust the machine back into the spotlight amid changing consumer habits.
这家位于华盛顿州雷德蒙德(Redmond)的软件巨头说，这款名为Xbox One的新设备旨在利用新技术为消费者提供一些新的游戏方式，以响应目前的一些趋势，比如智能手机和平板电脑的风靡。
The Redmond, Wash., software giant said its new device, dubbed Xbox One, was designed to take advantage of new technologies to offer customers ways to play games while responding to trends such as the popularity of smartphones and tablets.
微软还将旗下Skype视频聊天软件的技术整合进了Xbox One，使用户能够与朋友互动。Xbox One还拥有更加精良的Kinect动作和声音传感器，并且能播放和控制来自有线电视和卫星机顶盒的视频节目。
Microsoft also integrated technology from its Skype video chatting subsidiary into Xbox One, allowing customers to interact with friends using a more refinedversion of the Kinect motion and speech sensor. Xbox One also can play and control live television streaming from a cable or satellite set-top box.
微软互动娱乐部门总裁马特里克(Don Mattrick)说，这款设备是微软对"一个变得太复杂、太分散和太低效的起居室"的解决方案，其功能整合了对多种电子设备的操控。
The device represents Microsoft's answer to 'a living room that has become too complex, too fragmented and too slow,' with features that integrate control of multiple electronics, said Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business.
微软说，这款设备将于今年晚些时候推出，但是没有透露推出的具体时间或产品价格。该公司之前的设备Xbox 360于2005年推出时的起价为299美元。
Microsoft said the device will be released later this year, but didn't specify when or how much it will cost. The company's previous device, the Xbox 360, was priced starting at $299 when it launched in 2005.
Xbox仍然是微软进渗透进消费者家庭的行动的关键所在，因为该公司迄今推出的许多以消费者为导向的产品并未获得成功，比如Windows Phone。但是这款游戏机八年来一直没有更新，与此同时，人们已经习惯了用苹果(Apple Inc.)的iPhone来玩大量免费或是只花费几美元的小游戏。
The Xbox remains key to Microsoft's efforts to penetrate consumers' homes, as many of its other consumer-oriented products
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