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For the past three years, I’ve been writing about my excitement leading up to annual Electronic Entertainment Expo and then followed it up with my subsequent disappointment<\/a> in what I saw. \u00a0 From 2010 to 2013, E3 has rolled out the red carpet for the Nintendo 3DS, the Playstation Vita and the Nintendo Wii U.\u00a0 All three consoles have had a wretched time upon their release with terrible sales and uninspired launch titles.\u00a0 Funnily enough, I’ve actually come to warm to the 3DS and Vita a lot<\/em> since I first bought them and I’ve played the heck out of both systems this year.\u00a0 My Nintendo Wii U however still sits there collecting dust and I haven’t found a single game to purchase for the console since its launch seventh months ago<\/em>.\u00a0 But I digress.<\/p>\n

E3 2013 was to be the launching pad for the Playstation4 and the Xbox One, the two long awaited systems that would really<\/em> kick off the seventh generation of game consoles in a lot of people’s eyes.\u00a0 They’re the two showcase consoles for improved graphics and the expected home of the next tier of triple-A blockbuster video games.\u00a0 Call of Duty, Halo, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, God of War<\/em>…the next iteration of all these games would find their home on one of these two consoles.<\/p>\n

Well E3 has come and gone and the talk of the town has been how spectacularly badly Microsoft have handled the unveiling of the Xbox One with the system garnering a reputation for having an unprecedented assault on consumer rights.\u00a0 Microsoft announced fifteen exclusive titles for the Xbox One at E3 but no one really gives a shit because no two MS executives can seemingly give a straight answer on reports that the system won’t allow the reselling of games, won’t allow the lending of games to friends, requires a 24 hour online check-in to function and is basically set up in a framework whereby no one actually ‘owns’ the games they buy anymore.\u00a0 Instead you pay full price for a ‘license’ to use the game under which Microsoft heavily dictates the terms in which you use the game and who’s allowed to play it.<\/p>\n