E3 2012: The Console Wars

 

According to MCV, all three of the next generation consoles are to appear at this year’s E3 event… let the next battle begin! Now we knew a while back that we could expect to see Nintendo’s Wii U to show its face but to see the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3’s successors make an appearance this year will be a real treat. To put some perspective on how huge this is, in the 17 year history of E3, 2012’s event will be the first year ever to showcase three rival consoles at the same time.

It’s been rumoured for a while that Microsoft had planned to reveal their next generation console at this year’s E3 but MCV’s third-party publishing sources has confirmed that the firm had signalled to its partners that this will happen. The real surprise however is Sony’s reaction. Executives at the PlayStation firm have made it clear that they will not be left behind this time.

Nobody really know what sort of detail will be revealed for either of the new consoles but we can keep our fingers crossed and hope that, whatever is announced, that it will be music to our collective ears.