It birthed characters that defined their eras: Lara Croft, Crash Bandicoot and Solid Snake. Since its launch in 1995, PlayStation was always more than another one of Sony's electronic playthings: it changed the idea of what a videogame could stand for. It's just a little runt playing Drive Club, but the fact that he's playing it on the soon-to-be-released PlayStation 4 has made this technological starchild the temporary envy of men 40 years older than himself. It's not North West or Harper Beckham or Prince George. A huddle of pallid and paunchy men in black T-shirts keep sneaking peeks over each other's heads towards the young prince encased in a futuristic carriage. Towards the front of this winding mass of flesh and denim sits a small boy. Under the strip-lit, soulless shell of the Earls Court exhibition centre, a queue is forming.
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