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III 2014 just wrapped up and the dust that is settling around consoles it's very interesting we have continued to tweak and refined PS now I was lying down flat and using my head to navigate as I was sliding under big tractor trailer trucks they want to create a world that feels real that sounds real you could bring the sword point right up to the night tickle his chin or decapitate him whatever you want to do xbox one now when Microsoft's Xbox one came out November of 2013 it had a very broad kind of a whole-house message gaming at the core yes but also communications with skype streaming media and pay-tv integration and of course gesture and voice control through connect xbox on it seemed aimed exactly where consoles were going to be going more broadly around the household four months later however what it's mostly aimed at is catching up with Sony's taillights the sales race is quite stark Sony in the first four months have sold seven million ps4s Microsoft five million Xbox ones that thirty percent Delta is alarming to the folks in redmond and at e3 microsoft came out talking about basically one thing around xbox games they went back to the core this renewed interest and excitement benefits everyone creators publishers console manufacturers and especially gamers you heard almost nothing about skype pay TV integration or gesture control this time it was Sony they went broader they rolled out a slightly new version of the ps4 and new games of course but they also talked about new peripherals like the PlayStation TV box was rolled out which will yes stream games but also be streaming video from a new service that Sony plans by end of year to compete with Amazon streaming and Netflix they also had their Morpheus virtual reality headset being shown in development with games like Jurassic encounter and Street Lou and they rolled out details in their PlayStation now streaming service that will soon let you stream games to future Sony televisions with nothing but the addition of a controller with the Wii U games Oh Toki no addiction Annika we have the first two dedicated screen in the long history of video games the fritz part Nintendo's still wondering how it can get back to being the darling of the mainstream console revolution which the wii was once touted as their wii u with its kind of tortured gamepad tablet peripheral was being shown as a place where developers are spending more time making the tablet relevant they also rolled out something called amoeba or Ameobi I guess in plural these are little sorts of toy figurines that have NFC technology built-in you would touch them to a certain portion of the gamepad to launch the related game and also bring in your history preferences and profile with the game and start gameplay right from that point and everybody's wondering when or if Nintendo streaming TV and movie platform will be a major player taking a first look at the new valve controller for steam machines and valves steam machine platform is delayed till 2015 when it does arrive it will have a revolutionary controller with touch sensitivity haptic feedback and of course tie into valves very popular base of online games games written directly for the new class of boxes and the ability to stream TV and movies as well now one of the most interesting facts around all this is a game consoles remain globally the most installed device that is capable of streaming television and movie content along with its core gaming mission not smart TVs not Roku and Apple TV boxes those are actually relatively small numbers in the u.s. about half of all homes have a game console about a third of those though use it for TV and movie streaming as of the close of e3 2014 it's still clear that no game console maker has yet fully cracked the code on making their class of products dramatically more appealing to every member of the household in every demographic and everyday part of daily life uh