If Sony does indeed launch the PS4 on Wednesday, it will mean Sony has something of a head start against its main console rival, Xbox.

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I'd included phones in the rooms, but had forgotten the front desk console and main switchboard system: add twenty-five thousand dollars to the list to allow for that.

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The devices are grey market add-ons that can be soldered to a console's main circuit board to bypass copyright controls.

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Much of the chatter revolves around the hardware, which is, after all, the main reason for building a new console.

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But Hollywood's studios now realise they can't pin the future of their precious video sales (today one of their main sources of revenue) on a game console that has failed to ignite widespread interest outside a dedicated circle of hard-core gamers.

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Yarn Yoshi: The team that created Kirby's Epic Yarn is hard at work on the first console game to feature Yoshi as the main character since 1998's Yoshi's Story for Nintendo 64.

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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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Recently Ouya has been a main target of the skeptical, and I have to agree that the hackable console project is a tall order.

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