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Can the new Xbox One save gaming?

For years -- and I mean years -- consumer electronics and computer companies have been struggling to replace the panoply of boxes hanging off American televisions. Game consoles, DVD players, cable boxes, DVRs -- it's a mess. So it was no surprise that Microsoft announced today a new Xbox it hopes will become the all-in-one device in your living room.What remains to be seen is if it's already too late to become the entertainment hub in the home, and perhaps more important, whether it can save the flagging fortunes of the console gaming market.Ignoring the computer business cliche that you should never buy version 1.0 of anything, Microsoft has dubbed the new set-top box Xbox One . The hardware, which includes an updated, more precise version of Kinect, looks like an obsidian Ninento Wii but its feature set -- including a DVR-like video game recording function -- is aimed squarely at Sony's forthcoming PlayStation 4.The Xbox One has a Blu-ray player, built-in Wi-Fi, 8 GB of memory, and ...

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