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Charlee Gothard

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Xbox One, PlayStation 4 - not really the productivity solutions some may have hoped for

Back in August 2012, all kinds of fanciful notions for the "next generation" of games consoles seemed possible. Instead of being purely games machines, Computing forecast, they would be designed...

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