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Gratz dude

First marriage, now kids: Truly, life is over for you now mate Great pics dude, me and Jo will have to pop over at some point to meet them and catch up.

And VXRs are quicker than both

Not at all, really nice to hold and it'll certainly be more comfortable than my current Retina one.

No serious petrolhead should go his life without owning an Elise. There is nothing that compares to them.

All developers always use 100% of the hardware with every game: After all, why would you not? The improvements are with the software dev kits themselves, and I believe that Sony are ahead of MS in this area right now. Combine that with the ESRAM of the Xbone being more awkward to use initially (i.e. when programmers are not used to programming for a brand-new console), and you have a perfectly sensible reason as to why the third-party games are different so far. Look at Forza, and look at Drive Club, both 1st party games (or at least, published 1st party). Forza looks better to me, and is ready for launch now at 1080p and 60fps. Drive Club isn't ready, but will hit the same performance targets. That says to me that once programmers get used to the Xbone, you'll notice precious difference until we are much, much further down the line. I'm talking 5+ years, when the hardware will be relatively ancient but the dev software will be pushing the limits. That's when the extra grunt of the PS4 GDDR5 may well be shown, but that's ages away. Tbh, if all you want to do is play CoD/FIFA/AC then you might as well get a PS4. It's cheaper, after all. I want Kinect, and I want Forza, and I want Titanfall, and I want Halo, and I want XBL. It's the exclusives that should determine the system you buy, not whether one game has more pixels than another. When you buy a TV, do you pick the one with the best specs, or do you pick the one that actually looks better to your eyes and suits your needs?

Someone's having them engraved them I've just been to the shop here at the airport to have a play. 'Tis very light.

Perfect colour, and it's one of the free options!

Sweet baby Jesus! Can't tell if that is/was a genuine VXR, and didn't read all the thread to check.

FIFA 'cos it's free, Forza, DR3 and probably Ryse. Did have Watchdogs on pre-order too, but that's been delayed hence me looking at Ryse. May pick up Just Dance 2014 and Lego Marvel too, for the missus. Also want to get a wheel, but it looks like neither the Thrustmaster nor the MadCatz one will be out in time Most looking forward to Forza, but only with a wheel. Aside from that, I can see me putting a lot of time into DR3 now they've removed the stupid time limit on it. How about you?

So yeah, buy it. I'm going to get one.

I couldn't live without my JesusPad. If I didn't have it, I'd have to talk to the missus in the evenings!

Which, ironically, is exactly what the PS3 wanted to be. I used to be happy with a pure games console, but now I expect more from a home entertainment solution. Being able to snap back and forth between games and Netflix all via voice is going to make a huge difference to our experience here in the Morgan household.

I'll let you know when I pull it out of your arse. It's currently stuck behind the sunshine in the queue though, apparently.

A good ribeye for me, medium.

Little man Chuff me, you really are a tool, aren't you?

Well, I take it back what I said about Watchdog not being interested, clearly they are. I didn't see the programme, so don't know how the data was collected, but I'll stick my hands up and say I was wrong.. Shady practices, but I do still maintain that it's always a risk using these companies for things like that, just like WBAC.

My eyebrows already look like that

Lol, I'm not saying! Wasn't a Cayman, though.

BF4 also runs at a lower res on XB1 than PS4, however to my eyes (due to the washed out colours on the PS4), the XB1 actually looks better: http://uk.ign.com/videos/2013/10/28/battlefield-4-xbox-oneps4-graphics-comparison Technically I've no doubt it's slightly inferior across the board (DF have tested this), but as long as the games still look amazing then I'm happy enough. I wonder if the rumours of a poor MS software dev kit could be the cause here? I don't believe for one second it's purely a hardware issue, comparing Forza 5 with something like Drive Club.

Since we're generalising, I will say that it's mostly youngsters in Jap cars that try the race thing. Experiences from 10+ years, across various marques, but that's pretty much the rule. Also, old people are significantly inferior in terms of lane discipline and indicating than youngsters.

Sorry, I forgot to reply to Colin's tyre question. They were relatively new (2000 miles ish) 050As, so tyres I ran on both my old Zed AND my 911, so I'm familiar with those too. All were fine in terms of tread and pressures, so I ruled them out as contributory factors. Correct sizes for the car, too.

Deserved. So much effort, enthusiasm and talent deserves recognition. We're all with you matey

That gets you a £1k shed, £200 tax, £400 insurance and a crap load of fuel.

Actually, following on from that comment from our good friends at Sky Insurance, can I just clarify that I was in no way responsible for anything that happened and I am still an amazing driver and in no way should this be held against me when I renew with you guys in Feb