Do you have a working PS4 yet!?

Still leaning towards picking up the PS4 at this point. Not sure I want or need the XB1 to control my TV watching or anything.

No, I returned the defective one and haven't looked for another yet. There seems to be a significant number who've had hardware issues with the PS4 as well, so I'm gonna wait it out until they work out the launch kinks. That'll also give me time to wait for a limited edition colour release of the console.

IGN's top 50 video game developers. Interesting read. They do an overall good job, but I figured Rare, Bungie, Infinity Ward and Santa Monica would've been higher.

ca.ign.com/top/video-game-makers

Id really like an xbox one, but I don't know if the price can be justified right now. Maybe when they drop down 20% or so.

Anyone have battlefield 4 yet? its on my list.

How many games are out for a console upon release. I never do consoles really, but I wonder the reasoning behind getting one right around release.

About 10 game disc per console plus any downloadable games.

My gaming habit has transformed quite a bit with age, family, etc. at this point, I do enjoy the games (and the kid does), but I can essentially devote about enough time for just 1-2 titles per year. I basically can get a Call of Duty and Assassins Creed release each year and be good to go.

I started borderlands 2 in September 2012 and still have a few story missions left. Have dlc after that as well

There's already an Xbox One variant available. White, for certain employees:

http://www.geek.com/games/white-xbox-one-is-for-employees-only-is-microsoft-missing-an-opportunity-1568448/

http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/21/5129448/watch-an-unboxing-of-a-microsoft-employees-white-xbox-one

That white xboxONE looks sweet

I started borderlands 2 in September 2012 and still have a few story missions left. Have dlc after that as well - Dann

I started playing with my brother, we're very near the end of the standard story, but he never gets time to play anymore.

LOL. I don't know what's worse, the seller scamming or a XB1 as a gift for a four year old:

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Warning-student-pays-pound-450-photo-Xbox/story-20263203-detail/story.html

Project Triforce's torque bow replica for Gears of War will be available next year for only $850 (thought it would be a whole lot more):

That's impressive.

The price is actually fairly reasonable.

LOL at the price for mere gold plating, but yet another XB1 variant:

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/125850-can-t-find-the-xbox-one-in-stock-harrods-has-a-gold-plated-version-for-6-000

Was picking up the Lego Marvels game for my son for xmas - so naturally went ahead and ordered the PS4 version. Then received a couple PS4 games for Christmas myself. Upon realizing no one was gifting me the actual PS4 to play this all on, I had to take matters into my own hands Wed evening and order up a gaming system to play these games on! All in all, not a bad way to go abou things in getting upgraded to the newer platform.

Well done! Congrats on the fine purchase!

Agreed! Nice work Paul!

Nice! Still on the fence about buying the ps4 so soon... maybe next black friday

Some more Steam Machines have been revealed during CES, the more interesting ones from the dozen or so manufacturers include AlienWare and CyberPowerPC. There's even a $6k one Falcon Northwest, though it isn't any nicer than a PC tower.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/06/valve-steam-machines-specs/

This explains the Steam new beta interface that you can activate. I didn't see the purpose, but as a console-ish environment, it makes a lot more sense. Something like this would be perfect if you could just swap the graphics card every so often. OS bloat from applications and the million things piggybacking on the bootup are things I wouldn't miss.

Gaming Heads is putting out a life size Kratos bust for $600:

Just looks like Rick when the car gets driven in the garage with dirty tires.

HA! Nice Paul.