So 2013 saw the release and battle of the next generation’s consoles. No matter where you’re from it was pretty big news. Big enough to even feature as a theme in South Park ‘s brilliant season seventeen three-parter that hurled the console wars into the mix with Game of Thrones and the madness of Black Friday. Both Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One rock some pretty advanced features, but of course both have problems. Let’s delve into what makes the Xbox One great, as well as its flaws. The Xbox One features voice recognition software that powers the console. This makes it easy for the console’s user to give the Xbox One clear voice commands which it can then carry out, such as ‘Xbox on,’ or ‘Xbox, TV’. Due to the new built-in Kinect, the Xbox One can also be controlled with gestures, like a simple swipe of the hand, or by grabbing and dragging things. The new Kinect has a 1080p camera and thus offers such a high standard of movement...
