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Given that you don't know the meaning of the word "marginal", I'd like a steward's enquiry on that "utter" please.

You asked why I cared. There's why. Fair enough, Col, but you've filed yourself under "technical Muggle" here, me ol' fruit and nut. What's next? VW Passat as good as a McLaren F1 because they both do 70 on a motorway?

Excellent. I'm glad we're finally hearing some recognition. Why does it matter to me? I'm disappointed with MS, more than anything else. The PS4 isn't even my lead platform. That'll be the PC. I'm in the fortunate position where I don't have to choose between PS4 and XBOX One either. Many people do, and many people will want the most powerful machine for their money, something that'll last them throughout the current console generation. For those people, the PS4 is the better fit. It's a scandal that the One has such comparative problems on cross-platform games, costs more and ships as a second-class product outside the US. MS' plan is perfectly apparent and centered around them. They want you to have your XBox One on all the time ( probably why it takes over a minute to start from cold ). They want your other media routed through the machine. It's consistent with everything else they are trying to do; namely - construct a walled garden in a similar manner to Apple and Google. They want the XBox One to be the prism through which you do everything, and have spent a lot of money meeting their objectives and convincing the customer it's what he or she wants. Me? I want a games console. How about you?

So if the tastes of the consumer veer toward the inferior, you're golden.

No, by reducing it to raw numbers I'm removing subjectivity altogether. We're not talking about someone's interpretation of a book here, Col.

Please do. Watching you rip yourself off would give me a small amount of pleasure.

Yeah, you're on your own on the controller too, guv. The XBox One controller has been reviewed as worse than the controller it replaced. The PS4 controller is rightly being lauded as one of the best controllers of all time. http://www.nowgamer.com/features/2168347/ps4_vs_xbox_one_controllers_review.html

You think? I think the story is crap myself, but I don't think the journo picked the story up from here. More likely NC, the way he was going on last night. Just seemed like a cheerleader.

I'd have to take issue with Colinjb's margins and point him to the cold hard numbers and the screenshots. Marginal doesn't cover it. It's more accurate to say that some games are identical; others have considerably less graphical fidelity. Moving onto another area; let's talk sales. The last time that any sales figures were released (end of 2013), PS4 was at 4.2 million while XBox One was at 3 million. That's a significant lead already. Japan isn't even in the mixer yet. The problem for One owners will be that gap getting appreciably bigger, because at the very least, it'll end up determining the lead console SKU. During the last gen, the 360 was lead console SKU for most console games, meaning that the 360 was the main focus and the PS3 version was a port. There are a number of reasons for that. Timing would be one and Sony's insane decision to use something completely different (Cell processor) are both factors. If you take a look at side-by-side comparisons on Digital Foundry, the 360 normally came out on top in side-by-side comparisons. Games like Skyrim never worked properly on the PS3, even after several patches. So there's that. A far worse outcome would see the XBox One having such a small market share that it ends up like the console equivalent of the Mac. In these cases, not only will the XBox One miss out on being lead SKU, some games might not even make it over at all, or much later. I never tire of seeing Mac owners shout about getting one of the best games from three years ago. We'll see. This year will be key. My feeling is that the One has already done much of its business, snaring hardcore MS fans. It'll be interesting to see whether MS can maintain the momentum among the more lucrative "Muggle" population.

That's the amusing thing, James. Historically, I've never been a fanboy. I've been a collect-em-all, as the number of machines in my house testifies. I will buy an XBOX One when it's worth doing so, but I'm not going to let a couple of monkeys desperate to justify their own purchases give bad advice just to get people in the same poorly-constructed boat that they're in.

I believe Pretannic is an even earlier term. Regardless, my point was that the "great" in Great Britain comes from the comparison between Brittany ( Bretagne ) and our place ( Grand Bretagne ). The "great" part has bugger all to do with the Bible, and more to do with basic size comparisons.

You don't need to wait for all those games. The killer app for the XBox One, "unpaid apologism for an inferior product", was available for pre-order months ago and was released at launch. Some people are really into it.

I like this bit. "He has arrogantly acted against the Gospel that once made Britain 'great' and the lesson surely to be learned is that no man or men, however powerful, can mess with Almighty God with impunity and get away with it for everything a nation does is weighed on the scaled of divine approval or disapproval." That'll be another moron mistaking "great" for "fantastic", when in fact, the thing that made GB "Great" is Brittany in France.

I think UKIP are going to make significant inroads in the May European elections. First past the post is not a factor; they've got broad enough support to attract enough votes to make a difference under the PR being used here (closed party list, directly proportional). People will abandon their Westminster preferences too, I reckon. Major benchmark is 919K votes, the number they managed to pull in the UK 2010 General Election. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. Cameron turned his back on the voter requested EU bill, the true scale of migration in the 2000s became apparent and more citizens now have the right to live and work anywhere in the Union. We pay a lot of money directly into the EU every day, and spend even more supporting objectives of the EU. The EU wants people to live and work anywhere? Cool. Why not use that centrally acquired funding to assist that process, such as paying for the infrastructure to support it? I know it's possible - Liverpool is a good example of the EU giving something back. The EU could win a lot of hearts and minds by funneling some of that cash directly at the problems it causes, such as transport, education, health and housing. Otherwise, UKIP will be able to successfully prosecute the case that we put far more in than we get out. As long as it can do that, it'll always win votes.

Like many, would have taken a draw. The Brown tackle was scandalous; if referees are supposed to be promoting the game through their actions - this was a poor f**king job. Ramirez put in a mesmerising run only to be hacked down. Where the f**k is the protection? Useless refereeing, but we let Sunderland get back in far too early.

Here's a brief CV. http://delsingh.com/professional-experience/national-and-european/

Get an XBox One if you're so convinced.

Tragic news from Afghanistan this morning. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10947154.Top_Southampton_politician_dies_in_Afghanistan_bomb_horror/?ref=var_0 I knew Del. He was a top bloke, loved Southampton (the city) and spent his life trying to help others. At school, his easy manner and ability to get on with everyone built bridges between the various ethnic communities. He took those qualities into his adult life, becoming a huge advocate for the Palestinian cause. Southampton lost a son and brother last night - one of its best. RIP, Del.

I've taken it as we're not selling anyone, or will only do so for exceptional offers. Why make the statement otherwise? If anyone is sold, then this statement will come back to bite them. In that case, this statement would buy a few days of calm and a complete sh!tstorm the moment a star player is transferred. It's not a statement worth making unless you don't intend to keep it.

Alas, those Skyrim shots are from the PC version. There is no concrete news of a PS4 version yet.

Are you insinuating that MLT and Franny were able to penetrate the public toilet facilities with a hatchway in SMS under Cortese's stewardship? No wonder he went,

Go to PSN store, top menu on left hand side. Instant game collection. Don't forget you can get free games for a PS3/Vita if you have them.

Anywhere?

What's the matter, Glasgee? Sad that the infinite crisis at the edge of doom is over?

Indeed it does, but only really on the XBOX One. There isn't a single example of a cross-platform game having higher visual fidelity on the One than it does on the PS4. Let's not forget why we're here. Jamie is looking to buy a new console and he wants the best advice. My advice is that if you want the most powerful console, you go for the PS4; it's backed up by the specialist press, basic area mathematical calculations and the screenshots above. Yes, games like FIFA will run just fine at 1080p on One. There is less to do, so it's hardly surprising. The development libraries for the XBox One are hardly what you can call mature; during the run up to launch developers were getting new versions of the SDK on a weekly basis. Ultimately, Microsoft invested far too much time, energy and processor power on white elephants like skeletal recognition ( pegged at around 10% of CPU ). Future optimisations of the SDK may help to mitigate the 1080p issue, but the technical superiority goes right down to the metal, Sony will be optimising their SDK too. The XBox One is never going to catch up on cross-platform games, it's a less capable machine and as I've said before, it's a minor scandal that MS have released a machine in 2013 that falls short on filling an HD panel.