Next Xbox to be announced at CES 2012?

It looks like Microsoft might be announcing the next Xbox in a couple of months – according to some rumors online. Windows IT Pro’s editor, Paul Thurrot, recently announced in the Windows Weekly podcast that the Microsoft is going to announce the next Xbox at CES in January next year, and that it will hit the stores in the first half of 2012. The next Xbox is also said to be codenamed ” TEN”, and will support Silverlight, feature a Metro UI, and have a tight integration across various Windows devices including tablets and phones. Apparently the current Xbox 360 has “reached its apex” graphically and had “nowhere else to go”, hence Microsoft’s decision to release the new console.