11/28/2013

PS4 and Xbox One in AU: Not Quite Next-Gen IGN All

The future of gaming has arrived, and it’s brought the future of entertainment kicking and screaming along with it. The Playstation 4 and Xbox One are now available down under, and these amazing boxes of technological wizardry aren’t content to use their Skynet-levels of sentience merely to play games. They’re supposedly the interactive suns at the centre of our entertainment universe, kicking DVD, Blu-ray and Cable TV boxes to the curb. Even if you’re not addicted to games, both consoles pack enough mainstream entertainment into their small dimensions to forever eliminate boredom. Well, that’s the theory.


It appears that most of the non-gaming features didn’t quite make the lengthy trip from the shores of America and Europe across those large puddles of blue stuff between them and us. Maybe Operation Sovereign Borders mistook these powerful new features for refugees, and sent them packing? As the Xbox One has spent so much more of its US$471 build budget on entertainment features than the Playstation 4, our investigation will begin with Microsoft’s multimedia Trojan horse.


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