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Game consoles are continuing their stealthy takeover of the living room. We’ve been seeing this trend for a while, but the pace is accelerating as the holiday season approaches.

The PlayStation 3 is going Netflix next month. The second console to get the streaming video service, this added functionality should help the PS3 sales for the holiday (which are already predicted to be high due to the lower price point of the PS3 Slim). The solution currently works using a disc shipped out from Netflix, though it’s been confirmed that eventually a native client will be released. There are still rumors of a similar disc-based approach coming to the Wii.  Read More.

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One Response to “Video game consoles amp up the video”

1. james braselton Says:
   February 20th, 2010 at 6:18 pm

   hi there the future gaming consoles will have a 77 core cpu useing 77% less energy then todays gaming consoles and realy fast drives like faster then light speed nanosphers at warp 2.5 light speed or 2.5 times faster then light speed we may just hit a trillion times faster then light speed gaming at warp one trillion

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