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I have to imagine what makes up for the slight lack of power in the Xbox One is the Kinect camera bundled with every console. That can't be cheap. That probably gave Sony the room to make the PS4 slightly more powerful. It could be more noticeable than the 360 vs. PS3 because the PS3 had that impossible Cell architecture, while the One and PS4 likely have similar "PC" architectures, so it may be easier to optimise PS4 games. Just an amateurish analysis.

You guys seriously fell for this bait? I am very disappointed.

A number of exclusives is nothing to get excited about until we see what they actually are and there's plenty to hate about what we've heard of this console. I'm also not one to assume that a huge amount of interesting games are up Microsoft's sleeve.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-hard-drive/

Every game has to be installed.

The console has a non-replaceable non-user serviceable hard drive.

Hm, I wonder if this could be problematic.

@clonedzero: No need to get so angry. I guess I didn't phrase my reply correctly, there's no proof that they'll sit on the patent, and yes I know that this is done. There's no real proof the other way, but with a built-in Kinect that is confirmed to always need to be plugged in and the comments made in today's conference it would seem likely.

If they aren't doing it why would they even file the patent? Your logic makes no sense.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/139706-microsofts-new-kinect-patent-goes-big-brother-will-spy-on-you-for-the-mpaa

Self-explanatory, see the link. It's legit. (Old link.)

Barely anything shown that captures my interest. I don't care about it being a media hub for TV, music and sports, a focus of the majority of the conference. Gameplay of the new Call of Duty and that's it as far as gameplay.

Don't get me started on the bullshit we learned after the fact. Microsoft is openly waging war on the consumer and blatantly in the pockets of corporate publishers. Absolutely disgusting compromises that should never have been made.

I go from one thread to another and Marokai is bringing the knowledge in both. Fascinating data, man. I always felt that Ryan was in significantly less content than in the past, now I know that was a correct feeling. Maybe a small part has to do with when you actually look at the numbers side-by-side, you see Vinny is still not in as many quick looks as Brad or Jeff, it's evening out. Though Ryan's dive disproves any real attempt they may be making to do that. What is sad is that overall we're losing quick looks quite clearly. But not just that, we are also losing quick looks that star more than two cast members. Those are basically reserved entirely for streams now. You rarely see a three or four-man quick look these days, which is a huge shame. They have to find an excuse to do one, which comes across as quite lazy. That may play a part in the numbers. In general quick looks are quickly becoming the squeezed middle of Giant Bomb's content.

Holy fuck I am a dork.

Pachter also shat on Kotaku this week, if subtly, compared to Beer's savage beatdown.

The console wars have ended. The games journalism war has only just begun.