I've decided which console I'm buying this year...

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It's all about the games. This is the mantra of the games journalist, hardcore hobbyist and amateur industry-watcher alike. It's a truism that's now so well used that it's been worn to a smooth patina of cliché; so rehearsed that it slips down unnoticed.
Maybe that's why we were all so ready to forget this sage bit of platform agnosticism at E3 this year. We got our first scent of a proper console war in years and immediately bayed for blood. So-ny! So-ny! So-ny! Where do I put down my pre-order for a PlayStation 4?
I was as caught up as everyone else, but it now looks like I might have missed the boat when it comes to securing a launch PS4. And I'm OK with that - relieved, in fact. Because the battle Microsoft so humiliatingly lost at E3 was fought in the theoretical and mutable realm of sloganeering and policy. It was pure propaganda. I've looked at the only bit of data that matters - the release schedule - and come to the conclusion that there's only one console purchase that makes sense for me in 2013:
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