Game Consoles

• Developed and marketed by Microsoft. • It was announced on May 21 2013 and is the third console in the Xbox

Family.• It was released in various states in the US and many parts of Europe on

November 2013.• It has a variety of features including Kinect motion sensing, voice

recognition, facial recognition etc. in addition to Xbox Live services.• It can act as a video streaming device via the Xbox Live service.

• Developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment• It was announced on 20 February 2012 and released in 29 November 2013

in most parts of the US and Europe.• It allows various gaming and other services via the PlayStation Network.• Sony calls it “The World’s most powerful gaming console”.• It offers cloud based gaming services via the PSN.