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Sonne shines at e3 and Nintendo plays with toys I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update the annual III video game trade show continues in Los Angeles and a takeaway is that Sony's the clear champion of the conference well at least for the more serious gamer crowd Sony had more to show off to persuade you to buy a PlayStation 4 compared to Microsoft's Xbox one presentation and as for family-friendly Nintendo the company is doing a barrel roll to keep the Wii U fly-in with a new starfox game and interactive toy figurines that are similar to Skylanders but let's start with Sony which has new products and a new service to stream games later this year you'll be able to buy a PlayStation TV which is a small set-top box that takes the PlayStation games you would play on your portable Vita and streams them to a television and if your penis for us hooked up in the living room well the PlayStation TV can stream those games to a second TV set in the house like say your bedroom it was launched last year in Japan but now is heading to the US and Canada for $99 Sony is also making a white version of the ps4 and in September you can buy it bundled with the game destiny PlayStation now is a new service that lets you stream video games the beta testing begins July 31st and Sony hasn't set the prices yet Microsoft didn't show off any new hardware services last year Microsoft faced a backlash over some Xbox one features so this year it took a humble tone and avoided any mention of the Xbox one system or its abilities instead it only highlighted games so if you were undecided over which system to buy so DS presentation was the better self no contest Nintendo had a few fun game announcements that could help boost sales of the Wii U there are collector toys called amiibo and just like Skylanders these amiibos have a chip inside that when you place it on top of a gamepad controller it'll load your character into the game and data is also saved onto the toy now first work with Super Smash Brothers on the Wii U and it will also be available on other Nintendo games like Mario Kart 8 Nintendo also announced that in the new Super Smash Brothers you could fight as your own Mii character there's going to be a Mario maker game in 2015 that that'll let you build your own 2d Mario level and starfox is returning the popular Nintendo character is getting a Wii U game where you'll have to move the gamepad around to fly that's your tech news update you can find more in three news at cnet.com slash from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey