The dust has settled on this year's E3, the games industry's deliciously shameless hype-fest, and Sony can justifiably claim to have emerged in pole position. While Nintendo rolled out old stalwarts such as Mario Kart and Zelda, Sony showed superb-looking games for PlayStation 3, which included Gran Turismo 6, supernatural adventure Beyond: Two Souls and wacky platform game Puppeteer before moving on to PS4's line-up, most of which was revealed earlier this year.

Microsoft's exclusive games were overshadowed by some bewilderingly customer-unfriendly declaration, followed this week by a red-faced about-face. The company had confirmed that players would only be able to trade secondhand Xbox One games under specific conditions; the console would need to connect to Microsoft's servers at least once a day or you'd be denied access to your games; and the system would retail for £80 more than the PlayStation 4. Now, heeding concerns and bowing to considerable pressure (only the latter is true); the console will only need to be connected to the internet once during initial setup, and used games can be exchanged as freely as they are on Xbox 360. The console war, it seems, is back on.