Were now entering a new age where its near time for new game consoles to come out. We already have the WiiU out, and what we have coming out soon sometime around the end of the year are the new PS4 as well as what could be called the XBox 720. Ever since Sony revealed a nice 2 hour long presentation about the history of the Playstation as well as the PS4, everyone got pretty excited. So heres what I know so far about the 2 consoles on the way:

Playstation 4
The PS4 seems to be a powerhouse system in comparison to the WiiU. The system is gonna have much better graphics, allow you to play your PS4 games on your PS Vita screen when not using a TV, allow the ability to have a friend on another PS4 assist you anywhere in the world whenever you get stuck in a game, allow you to record what you are playing so you can share videos on social networks as well as YouTube, digitally download PS1, PS2, PS3 games, download content in the background so you don't get interrupted from the gameplay, have the ability to turn off the system in sleep mode, and turn it back on so it leaves you where you left off in the game right away, have a touch pad mouse on the PS controller, etc. etc. And last but not least which is a good thing is that you do not have to be online to play the games, as well as play used games as well as new (well get into that in a bit.) However the drawback of the system is the lack of backwards compatibility. I can understand that though since it'll lower the cost of the system. But some people are willing to pay for the convenience.

XBox 720
Now there are tons of rumors circulating about, and the XBox 720 may or may not end up being the official name. Microsoft is gonna reveal all the information on the system near the end of May over at E3. Supposedly the system has a lot of negative rumors about it. First of all it is said that the system is going to constantly be online. It needs to constantly be online no matter what, even if you are playing a one player game that really doesn't need an internet connection so it can download things in the background such as patches, updates, or what have you, and probably keep track of scoring, trophies, as well as of course multiplayer. If you are disconnected from the internet for more than 3 minutes, the game will pause until you reconnect to the internet. This holds true even for one player games! This is a major problem as to this day, not to many people have high speed internet, or live out in the boonies, or just don't have internet at all. And the spokesperson for Microsoft was Tweeting and basically made the system dead before arrival by saying "Most devices are constantly online. This is the world we now live in. Deal With it." Another big rumor circulating is that the system will not play used games. This is a big problem. Whatever game you buy for $60 that you pop into your new XBox 720, itll be tied to your system. You cannot play it in another XBox 720 after that, only yours. So there will no longer be you bringing your new copy of Halo or Call of Duty to your friends house. This also means that places like Game Stop, EBay, Craigslist, etc., can't resell the used copy of the game no more. On top of that, and this is a problem to this day for most PS3/XBox 360 games as well, but if a company desides to no longer support a particular game you spent $60 on 3-5 years down the road, or goes out of business, then you can't play the game ever again and you now have a $60 paperweight because the game required you to be online just to even play it, even if its just a one player game! And the only way it can be played, is if their damn servers are up. And now this is now going to be for all XBox 720 games? Wow! They also wanna push for people to download digital copies of the games rather than have a physical copy. This is bad, as harddrives / SD cards do not last forever, stores can't really stock digital copies on shelves, and you'll never have a physical copy to last you years to come. Most people would actually like to have the physical copy. This is very bad!

The good thing about the XBox 720 is that itll supposedly have a built in XBox 360 chip to allow XBox 360 games to allow backwards compatibility, have something similar to the XBox 360 controller only with 16% more battery power, have a built in Windows 8 RT so youre apps / games you created in Windows 8 can run on your XBox 720 by simply paying only $60 licencing fee, rather than 10s of thousands like before. This allows all sorts of developers to develope for the XBox 720 easily. Thats about all I know so far. Tell me what you think.