Unless you’ve been living under a bridge, you may have noticed that there are a couple of new consoles about, namely the PS4 and the XBox One.  This isn’t going to be an actual review on either of them because unfortunately neither Sony nor Microsoft sent me a free console to trial for them; I was as surprised as I’m sure you are. If anyone happens to have a console they would like me to review, let me know and I can tell you where to send it.

There seems to be a lot of arguments about which one is going to be better than the other one and people don’t seem to be focusing on all of the good points, but ranting about what’s wrong with them. You can’t help but have a preference over one or the other, but that’s all it is. One doesn’t have to be useless for the other one to be good. If there was only one console about then there would be no competition and both the consoles and games would suffer as a result.

I will definitely be getting one of them once the dust settles and probably both once the price drops, but until then I am excited to see what each company does to try to outdo the other. My main console at the moment is the PS3, so I am not worried about it becoming redundant, as I expect Sony will do what they did with the PS2 and keep releasing PS3 games until the PS5 is nearly here.

I have read a lot of reviews on the XBox One which seem to say that all of the ideas they have come up with are amazing, but they haven’t quite pulled them off, making it more of a concept console at the moment. If this is true then I can see the PS4 coming out strong from the blocks, despite the XBox one having arguably the stronger launch titles out of the two. Then the XBox coming back strong like Rocky, but that is only something which time will tell.

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