The games that have defined PS4 and Xbox One

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It's been one year since PlayStation 4 and Xbox One launched around the world, and although the initial line-up of games was so remarkably drab and lifeless that it led executives to ponder why millions of people were buying the consoles in the first place, things have now picked up to the extent that there is lots of good stuff to choose from. So we've decided to do just that.
In putting together this list, we immediately ruled out last-gen remasters. They are certainly a fixture of the generation so far, but we suspect their numbers will thin out now the new formats have built a head of steam, returning us to the familiar rhythm of occasional HD collections rather than enhanced ports of more recent titles. The games we're really interested in, then, are those developed primarily for PS4 and Xbox One, or else multiformat games that have become synonymous with either platform. We wanted to see what the most notable games of year one had to say about this fledgling hardware generation - how do the popular narratives stack up against the reality of the games we find ourselves playing and enjoying the most?
This is just our list of course, and you may wish to put forward alternatives for your fellow readers, which you are invited to do in the comments - perhaps after offering some sort of acid judgement on the nature of our ancestry. In the meantime, here are 13 games that have defined our first year with PS4 and Xbox One.
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