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Xbox One presented to Redmond, 21 May 2013 (K.DUCEY / SIPA).

Who needs new consoles? It is as if Microsoft and Sony had agreed: outputs almost everywhere one week apart. After months of trench warfare without advertisements, against trailers, errata, and many trolls. Gif hilarious, the new generation of consoles is now available in stores. This Friday for Xbox One, in a week for the PS4 has already quietly passed a million units in the United States.

fans tear on Twitter, send emails to editors designated as biased and flood the forums. Basically, this is the playground that resembles nothing so much as this excerpt from South Park.

In a market that is increasingly cracked via portable consoles, tablets, smartphones and web games faux free games, both companies have almost interest to stick elbows, so much that they offer the same soup.

1. We sell the same games

There has never been launched with many duplicates. This is the biggest problem they both try to refourguer us the same games. Worse, they are mostly already out on the bikes of the previous generation and we must cling to distinguish.

aggravating factor: they are almost all for different reasons, planted in terms of sales. Weariness suites repetition, players making savings to buy the said consoles, all are good reasons to explain this. FIFA and PES down while “Assassin’s Creed IV”, “Call of Duty: Ghosts” and “Battlefield 4″ eaten

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specials will be linked to clear inventory and used buyers will enjoy it. Who wants to buy an expensive console to do the same thing? Smile, next year, they will still be there. Fortunately by then, the situation has changed.

“Watch Dogs” was to be the flagship of the new generation, but it was postponed to next year. The technical difference of the first games that remain are so weak that it does not justify releasing three quarters of rent in a machine. Difficult to pack in these conditions.

2. Early buyers will take all imperfections in full pear

Updates extending, manufacturing defects, bad series … When the “ day one ” console you buy, you must expect some hassle. Players still remember the legendary RROD (“Red ring of death”) the early years of the Xbox 360.

More recently, Nintendo has surprised everyone with updates that endless, if something goes wrong, flinguaient console. For its part, the PlayStation 4 is already taking some flashbacks because it breaks down like an airplane taking off.

the first echoes of drive problems Xbox One

means while Sony admits that 0.4% of HDMI ports require a return service. Obviously, these phenomena are yet seen the tiny park consoles concerned, but it looks like a minefield for buyers.

3. The same myths on both sides

two manufacturers are trying to sell us “visions” video game machines to do everything where you download music, you streamed movies. There watching TV (Xbox One) or streamed on with his PS Vita, it makes Skype and a whole lot of things with his camera. The big news will be in both camps, to distribute its games live quite easily.

In the end, we know that the majority is there to put headshots in the soldiers gave strong emphasis to defend America and kill ninjas. But everyone continues with his intox. We are asked to believe that the capabilities of the Xbox One is 4-fold increase when connected to the net through cloud .

Generally, this speech dissipates fairly quickly. To sell a console, you have to campaign, as in politics. Promises that will not happen because after take, “is the rigor.” Specialized sites participating in the flow of information, with comparative videos “ screen-on-screen ” or, even more stupid, the same game before PS4 patch after patch and update. A certain idea of ??emptiness.

4. They are hardly more exclusivity

This is the common problem of the latter seven-: the same games come out on both consoles on the same day and usually the same quality. It is at this point that it formatted no more surprises. The only exclusives, are, first, the Japanese publishers that are acquired at the Sony camp. This data has changed a bit over time as the ancient Japanese Archduke of video games like “Final Fantasy” or “Metal Gear Solid” strut on both systems.

Second, manufacturers make these exclusives lot of money on the table. “Cash is king” and that game Microsoft still has a bunch of ELP to break. For the release of the Xbox One, they offered one of the few exclusives of the season, “Dead Rising 3.”

And obviously, they did well.

Nintendo also including the method they produce “Bayonetta 2″, one of the games expected next year.

5. Precisely speaking of Nintendo, while others face …

They turn Mario into a cat, how to fight against it?

6. Prices will fall

video game is a highly competitive industry. Once a guy makes the slightest movement, its competitor tries to counter as quickly and pass it immediately on his computer. And even if they do not immediately decline frankly, they manage to still packs or partnerships with some games included. In general, it takes the E3 for the first signs.

7. Very few exclusives for output

The only thing that can still be leveraged, it is the affinity. If you like Sony or Microsoft games games. It really boils down to that. But initial exclusivities are quite loupées. “Ryse” is an attempt to “God of War” slack time of ancient Rome, a really cool topic.

unless it should be seen as a metaphor for decadence of an empire that eventually ash. “Knack” is even more difficult watchable. First game, first put forward for an empty shell anthology, a soporific monotony. The first games are rarely transcendent and the first big blockbusters public to “Uncharted” and “Halo” are still far away.

Meanwhile, if you really need to launch during the holidays, if any iPad or if you really succumbed to election promises builders, toss out works just as well.

Morality is summarized in this wonderful song. Its refrain: “Do not buy a console at launch.”

It sings like Bob Dylan.