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Have you ever wanted to dance with a kangaroo? Of course you have. In real life the giant marsupials mostly sleep all day but luckily for you the San Diego zoo has you covered. With Kanguru, their new augmented-reality app, you and your kids can dance away with a kangaroo anywhere your camera points. What’s more, the more you play, the more virtual cassette tapes are unlocked — each with its own unique dance move for you to jive to. It’s fun, silly and free. On school holidays, what more do you need?
Sony vs Everyone else
It recently came to the gaming community’s attention that Sony didn’t want to share its toys, or more specifically your Fortnite progress, skins and purchases. With Fortnite being ported to Switch, Playstation players found they couldn’t log onto their accounts on the semi-hand console, as Sony forbids it. Sony actually forbids you logging into your account on any console but their own.
Now this is nothing new. For as long as anyone can remember there has been a line in the console wars. This was due to hardware constraints but now it’s due to paranoid attempts to hold market share. Since the launch of the PS4, Sony has held the biggest slice of the pie and they are convinced that by sharing they will lose some of it. Since players always favour one console over the other and rarely have both, this was never really a problem before. But thanks to the Switches crossover appeal, more players are opting for Mario as well as their preferred big-box machines.
It has become such a big deal that last weekend Xbox and Nintendo did the unthinkable and produced a joint ad for a Minecraft update that allows players to crossplay between Switch, PC and Xbox platforms. It’s doubtful such a move will change the gaming giant’s policy but with the PS5 looming it may do Sony well to learn the preschool creed: “Sharing is caring.” LS