微软发布Xbox One游戏机

Game console makers are responding to the changing consumer landscape by including new technologies in their devices. Nintendo Co. 7974.OK +2.97% melded a touch screen into the controller for its Wii U console, which was released last November. Sony Corp. 6758.TO +0.05% in February showed a touch-sensor built into a redesigned controller for its PlayStation 4 console, due out later this year.
游戏机制造商正通过将新技术纳入其设备来应对消费者情况不断变化的现实。任天堂公司(Nintendo Co.)在Wii U游戏机的控制手柄中融合了触摸屏，这款游戏机于去年11月发布。索尼公司(Sony Corp.)今年2月向外界展示了其PlayStation 4游戏机经过重新设计的控制手柄中内置的触摸传感器。索尼将于今年晚些时候推出这款游戏机。

Aside from additional horsepower to make better looking games, Xbox One includes the ability to watch TV on one part of a screen while looking at other information, such as a fantasy football league scores or a Skype video chat, on another.
除了花大力气制作外观更加漂亮的游戏外，Xbox One还允许用户分屏，在观看电视的同时浏览其它信息，比如梦幻足球联赛(fantasy football league)的成绩或进行Skype视频聊天。

Under the hood, the new Xbox is powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD -1.95% chips, in a shift away from chips based on International Business Machines Corp. IBM +0.51% designs. The change makes the new Xbox more similar to Sony's upcoming PlayStation, making it easier to develop games for both companies' devices.
炫酷的外表下，新Xbox放弃了基于国际商业机器公司(IBM)设计的芯片，转而采用高级微设备公司(AMD)的芯片。这一转变令新Xbox更类似于索尼即将推出的PlayStation，也降低了业界为这两种游戏机开发游戏的难度。

But the two devices are also different in that Sony plans to offer a way for its advanced data centers to stream game images and button presses over the Internet to its PlayStation, allowing customers to play potentially any game instantly with a Web connection. That includes older games, which otherwise can't play on the new device. Microsoft didn't unveil that technology for Xbox One.
但这两种游戏机也存在不同。索尼计划令其先进数据中心技术一显身手。该数据中心可以流媒体格式通过互联网将游戏图像和虚拟按键传送到PlayStation游戏机上，这样用户在有网络连接的情况下基本可以玩任何游戏，其中包括老游戏。如果没有这项技术，新设备无法玩老游戏。从微软此次发布的情况看，Xbox One没有配备这项技术。

Microsoft put more horsepower behind the technology it does offer, however. The Kinect motion sensor, which debuted three years ago, was revamped and can now better hear gamers speak at the device and more accurately understand their movements, for instance.
但微软在此次推出的技术上确实下足了力气。三年前首次亮相的Kinect运动传感器得到了改进，现在可以更清晰地听到玩家对该设备说的话，更准确地识别玩家的动作。

Microsoft is also investing in new games for the device. The software company said it would release 15 titles from its own studios during the Xbox One's first year on the market.
微软还为Xbox One投资开发新游戏。微软表示，在Xbox One上市第一年期间，其自己的工作室将推出15款新游戏。

The company said it is developing a television show based on its popular Halo space-war game series with director Steven Spielberg. Nancy Tellem, head of Microsoft's television studio efforts, said the effort is the beginning of Microsoft's efforts to apply its Xbox technology to the way television works.
微软表示，它正在和导演斯皮尔伯格(Steven Spielberg)开发一个基于其广受欢迎的《光环》(Halo)系列太空战游戏制作的电视节目。微软负责电视制作的泰勒姆(Nancy Tellem)说，此举是微软将其Xbox技术应用到电视制作领域的开端。

'Until now, television was a one-way street for the viewer,' she said. 'That's about to change.'
她说，到目前为止，对观众来说看电视是一种单向交流。这种情况就要发生改变了。