In the UK we already get a free copy of Fifa 14 (a very popular game here, not sure about US [assuming you're there]) so hopefully other bundles come along. Assuming you're going to buy a game with your console (most people tend to) then a bundled game does kind of count as a price drop, but I agree an actual price…

To be honest it doesn't seem all that bad. Not disastrous anyway.

I always get all the main consoles in a generation. One in the first 18 months, then the rest in the last year or so of their lives, when you can get a tonne of great back catalogue games for next to nothing.

Posted before, but hey. Cost me £6, plus £2 for the hacksaw to cut it to size.

No guess that is a little short.

This isnt really a cut/copy and paste.

I'll be getting neither as things stand, I'll wait til a) a post Xmas price drop and b) some "Must Have" titles. At the moment there are games that I would buy if I had a console but none that I would buy a console for. Besides I have a backlog of PS3 games to go through, and GTAV (I hope) will keep me busy for a…

Easy, just turn off side-loading and block root.

As both a PC gamer for approaching 20 years and a console gamer for longer, I can say with certainty that the two things are different. Yes they sometimes look the same or sound the same, but the experience has some crucial differences. Don't think that just because they have some convergent elements that one can…

Think it through for petes sake. The PS3 sold over 75 million units. Do you really think that 37.5 million people queued around the block to buy it in the first day?

I love my Wii - its homebrew channel means its still plugged in and running emus, so proper titles get a play from time to time too.

I looked at Game UK's website, which is the main high street retailer over here. It could well differ depending where else you look.

That just a visible minority. The overwhelming majority of people who buy consoles after they're released when they know what they're getting - such as when they see a favourite game come out.

Indeed, that copy of Fifa (which is a very popular game over here) really does take the sting out of the price difference between the two consoles. Bear in mind Fifa costs about £55, and the price difference between the consoles is £75.

Im a UK resident.

"I don't think consumers buy hardware just because it's sexy and new," he told me during a phone interview earlier this week. "I think consumers buy hardware because of the experiences they can have on them.

Swings and roundabouts. Shopto.net and Game UK are showing better pre-orders for Xbox One, Play.com and Amazon are showing better for PS4. I'm sure in about 24 hours it will swap, then swap back again, then back once again.

Yup. Me and the missus spent 8 years after our undergrad in our home town, then just felt like a change and upped and moved to London. Great decision, and not precipitated by work or family, just felt like a change.

While I agree that MS has to win the US market to be successful, the Japanese market is not that important in terms of sales, or at least no more important than most other places. The UK bought more PS3s and 360s combined than the Japanese did.

This.