The Xbox Metro Update Nudges Microsoft?s Console Closer To Set-top Hegemony

The upcoming Metro update to Microsoft's Xbox, shipping tonight and arriving on your console some time this week, pushes Microsoft's gaming product away from the traditional run-and-gun of gaming consoles and into a new realm: that of the home media center. While the Xbox existed as a media center before, allowing you to download video and music content and stream content from your home computers, this new update makes it easier to find disparate pieces of content, whether its from Microsoft's own video/music store or another source or directly from the Internet through YouTube and various partner services. The update also allows Windows Phone users to control the Xbox remotely, adding items to the queue and looking up content to send to the TV while other content is playing. In short, this update isn't about the games, it's about content.

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