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The race is not to the swift
Video games: The newest games consoles look surprisingly underpowered and are very similar to PCs. That’s because the business is changing
ON MAY 21st, on a stage flooded with green light, Microsoft unveiled its third video-games console, the confusingly named Xbox One. This followed Sony’s announcement of the PlayStation 4 in February. Together with Nintendo’s Wii U, launched last November, these machines make up the eighth generation of games consoles. They have been a long time coming. Their predecessors were launched in 2005 and 2006, aeons ago by the standards of the computer industry, and were beginning to show their age.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “The race is not to the swift”
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