The new Wii U home console offers entirely new ways for consumers to play games in HD and enjoy their favorite programming.

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The "A-Swing" has a game console appearance to it, but the main draw is its DMB support, allowing users to watch programming with the phone on a surface and the display flipped up.

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Shalom says one of the main attractions of Cisco UCS is that it comes with an application programming interface (API) that gives the GigaSpaces Extreme Application Platform (XAP) management console direct access to the hardware.

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But this approach is such a radical change from the operation of the old console that games developers will be forced to start from scratch, using a new style of computer programming to produce games for the PlayStation 3.

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