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This morning, the Xbox One went on sale — and, perhaps surprisingly if you’ve been following all of Microsoft’s policy about-turns, the console promptly sold out. Unlike the PS4, which was stocked in retail stores in heavily populated areas until mid-afternoon on its release day, the Xbox One appears to have sold out a lot faster. Is the Xbox One ...

STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images Gamers are reminded to get ready for the launch of the Xbox One in Times Square. Microsoft’s successor to the Xbox 360 is going head to head with Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Nintendo’s Wii U in the eighth generation of video game consoles. The thrill is not gone. Seven hours of waiting on line for the Xbox ...

We’ve spent a lot of time comparing the PS4 and Xbox One in terms of hardware specs, software, and games — but one thing we haven’t discussed is their engineering; their form and design. Physically, the Xbox One and PS4 are very different consoles: While the Xbox is huge and boxy, the PS4 is much slimmer and lighter. Furthermore, despite ...

One of the defining features of the Xbox One is that it has an HDMI input socket, allowing you to plug a wide range of media devices into the console. The intended purpose of this HDMI socket is to allow you to watch TV and play games side-by-side on the same screen — but in practice, you can plug just ...

Over the weekend, Sony broke two records: Over one million PS4s were sold in the first 24 hours of availability — but on the other hand, it seems a huge number of those consoles were dead-on-arrival bricks. Sony’s customer service department will replace these broken consoles, but due to the dearth of stock in North America, early adopters are being ...

For the past few weeks, the Battlefield 4 team has offered a nice option to players who wanted to grab BF4 when it shipped, but not miss out on the enhanced visuals in the Xbox One or PS4 versions. Everyone who bought the game at launch got a coupon to upgrade to the next-gen version for just $ 9.99. All ...

In just a couple of weeks, we’ll be living in an entirely new generation (of video games). However, if you didn’t pre-order your PS4 or Xbox One long ago, you’ll be stuck living in the past, as the two consoles have been sold out for quite a while. There are still a few ways to get your hands on a ...

For the first time in the history of video game consoles, it’s actually possible to do an almost direct comparison of the hardware inside the PS4 and Xbox One. In almost every one of the seven preceding generations, game consoles were outfitted with highly customized chips and CPUs featuring niche, specialized architectures that could only really be compared very generally ...