Nintendo

Cast equally as the establishment and serial innovator, Nintendo has perhaps the busiest Christmas of any games company this year. The GameCube and Game Boy Advance may be all but dead but the Nintendo DS is now in full bloom and, with the PlayStation 3 out of the spotlight for now, the Wii has its chance to win them back the hearts and minds of home console gamers...
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Xbox

Just over four years after the first Xbox appeared on British shores, its successor, the Xbox 360, is in with a real chance of becoming the dominant format in the next generation of consoles. It’s already been out for a year but this Christmas is when it starts to roll out its big guns.
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PlayStation

For many, the name PlayStation is synonymous with video games and with 40 million PS2s sold in Europe alone, it’s not hard to see why. This Christmas, Sony is stuck between two generations of machine, with the PlayStation 2 starting to show its age and the PlayStation 3 not due to make its debut until next year.
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PC

Since it’s unaffected by the generational hardware changes of the consoles, the PC’s release schedule waxes and wanes in a far less predictable manner. This isn’t one of its busier Christmases but, next generation of consoles or not, it has one of the most impressive New Year line-ups of any format.
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