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hahaha you know we've just got to new game consoles xbox one and playstation 4 and the whole console space will be different for them ladies and gentlemen I'm thrilled to introduce the PlayStation call we're thrilled to unveil the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system the new xbox and playstation do much more than just play games with greater power and realism that you would expect they also make a much broader play for the entire constituency of the living room moving more into entertainment media even communications and doing so with different interfaces than just the familiar controller xbox on xbox one instantly recognized me and gets me to my own personal home screen a new set of universal gestures to control your entire TV experience both the xbox one and the PlayStation pool can log you in through facial recognition the Xbox does it through the Kinect camera that comes included with the system and for the PlayStation 4 you need the PlayStation camera that's a sixty-dollar anton but i think it's well worth it and playstation 4 does not know who i am but if i take the hat off now I'm me again it does motion tracking so if you're walking around a room having a skype call will follow you it actually tracks your heartbeat you know if you're having an exercise game and i can say xbox show fantasy and now i get my fantasy players right alongside gaming is a huge business long ago leaving behind such stalwarts as theatrical movie presentational radio broadcasting certainly my revenue in the u.s. 79 billion dollars in total revenue in 2012 expected to jump to maybe 93 billion when 2013 is all said and done and substantially more in 20 14 and 15 the lion's share of that is console-based although the pc is still a strong second and mobile gaming is coming on like mad as you know but if you just look at online gaming through consoles that alone 165 million regular users by 2017 we're dealing with large numbers in almost every avenue you don't just get that by doing high-end gaming go to TV forty-two percent of console owners use them to watch movies nineteen percent to watch TV shows show the guy especially the way the xbox one brings in DVR ability live TV and pay-tv the usage curves ought to stay pretty stout so the xbox and playstation of a very interesting space and somewhat to themselves consoles are one of the few areas or Apple Google and Samsung don't call the shots and as games and movies and even television shows begin to share technologies looks and motifs they leverage each other and make each other bigger it becomes one big entertainment pie and the game consoles are well positioned to be in the middle of it now specifically I'd launch at least Microsoft's Xbox one seems more focused on TV integration whereas Sony's PlayStation is keeping a bigger foot over in the gaming side but also leveraging hard it's 4k output ability because somebody wants to sell 4k TVs Microsoft does not and both these devices are important plays by Microsoft and Sony to become kings in second screen and by that I mean formal second screen where the content on each screen is synced tied and relevant to each other as opposed to informal second screen that we already do a lot of that would be more like checking facebook while you're watching an unrelated TV show advertisers are in love with the possibilities of second screen and Microsoft and Sony would love to come to them with a pre-built audience that is already using their ecosystem of mobiles televisions and consoles in the middle now a big risk to this grandiose vision of consoles taking over the lies in products we already have if set-top boxes mobiles that talk to tvs optical discs and pay-tv proved insurmountable because of their relatively low cost low commitment costs and ability to evolve quickly that could put a real damper on what these companies think they're going to do in the living room so here's a four-point plan for the game consoles to attack the living room first embrace and support the content I already subscribe to and use don't make me reinvent the wheel secondly support the mobile devices that I carry not just the ones you make third go get a new digital covenant with Hollywood get me the stuff I want at a great price on demand and do it before Apple does and forth get out there and make the interface and the whole device experience as simple as TV used to be if game consoles can pull that off in their living room presentation they will indeed be an American household technology engineered like Noah