Xbox sings a new tune | CNET News.com

David Hufford, Microsoft product manager, said before the press conference that the package helps expand the utility of the Xbox by allowing it to become a conduit for running slideshows on a television and for doing karaoke using the microphone included in the kit.

This must be to help M$ gain tracktion overseas, if ya know what I mean. The article also talks about a slimmed down version of the xbeast coming out soon which would be a welcome change to the monolithic ode to american industrial design of the first.