Advice by Laz: The console wars

For all you new gamers out there we have a new section that will empower you to know everything about gaming... It's been a good run and here we are, we're in our seventh year of the 7th generation of video gaming consoles which, as you all should know by now, has been one of the longer modern ones even outliving their predecessors by two whole years. Yet it hardly felt like a drag right? We all sort of warmed up to the generation slow and steady and in time it did eventually deliver. the trial and error stage was over and developers now had enough guts (and moola) to really give it their all and give us MOSTLY quality titles for the general gaming audience. Gone were the days of developers running to Nintendo"s Wii to cut down on development costs. The console war had again come to an end and gamers were ready to sign a temporary peace treaty.
Then just when you thought it was ok to put your controller shaped rifle down. On June 7th during E3 2011 Nintendo went ahead and announced they were developing weapons of mass destruction (the Wii U which is expected to launch mid 2012). PS3 and XBOX 360 war veterans, still contemplating a truce, realised that this could only mean one thing...War was once again on the horizon. Sony were second to show they were armed and ready to retaliate to Nintendo's unprovoked 3DS attack with the handheld market as the battleground and Nintendo and Sony's respective handheld systems clashing once again.
But fear not yet, stragglers who only decided to buy a 7th generation console last Tuesday. As history suggests generations overlap , your XBOX 360, PS3 or Wii wont become outdated dustcatchers in your broom closetby lifecycle, and have hinted they are well into developing PS3's successor. The result? Simply that PS3 and PS4 will co-exist in the market and will have titles simultaneously dveloped for both. The same is true for Microsoft's XBOX 360 and it's successor.
Verdict? If you have yet to get a Gen7 console , now would be the best time to consider it.

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