Playstation 4 Rocks the UK, But Slumps on Black Friday

The gulf between the two next generation consoles has not been as wide as previous releases, and each one is claiming their various victories wherever they can.

Nonetheless, it seems the Playstation 4 is doing rather well.

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Xbox One Users Banned For Swearing in Upload Studio

If there’s one place where swearing can be considered part of the status quo, it’s in online games. Anybody who has played anything from Call of Duty to Planetside with their voice chat enabled has experienced high-pitched jibes about their sexual preferences towards various creatures of the animal kingdom on more than one occasion.

Microsoft may be content to let this slide, but not with footage on the Upload Store.

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Console Wars – Does the Customer Really Care?

This may sound like a ridiculous question at face value, and I agree – it is. Customers in the modern climate want the best value for their money, and when it comes to shelling out hundreds of pounds, dollars or euros for a machine that will be with you for the next decade, you want the very best. So when the Playstation 4 is $100 cheaper, and seems to be running on more powerful hardware, why are people still going the way of the Xbox One?

Because consumers don’t care.

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E3 – A post-mortem of Microsoft’s fall from grace

Perhaps I’m an outlier, but I’m one of only a few of my friends who actually own a Playstation 3 – the world and their auntie seem to have gone the way of the Xbox 360. When asked why, they often preach damning statements such as: “Well, the Xbox is simply better.”

And now I get to sit back with a smile on my face, because Sony have won the console war.

Perhaps I’m an outlier, but I’m one of only a few of my friends who actually own a Playstation 3 – the world and their auntie seem to have gone the way of the Xbox 360. When asked why, they often preach damning statements such as: “Well, the Xbox is simply better.”

And now I get to sit back with a smile on my face, because Sony have won the console war.

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