Ode to joy

Attending Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show has always seemed to require a special sort of madness. After all, who in their right mind spends the first week of January – a time, traditionally, of abstinence, or at least a bit of low-key living, after the excesses of Christmas and the New Year – in a city where the party never stops and the dinner buffets stretch off to the horizon? We would, if it’s all the same to you, much prefer to stay in bed.

Nor has it typically yielded much of great significance to the videogame industry. It is the tech sector’s