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In the last decade, often one video game system has dominated the consumer demand for the holiday season, but in 2008, we have three excellent video game systems to select from, each with their own benefits. Xbox 360, Microsoft’s brainchild, boasts breathtaking graphical capabilities, and advanced options for multi-player through the Xbox Live network. The Sony PS3 console offers a functional Blu-Ray player, as well as the largest library of video games on any system ever, incorporating the titles from both of their earlier PS1 and PS2 systems. The Nintendo Wii provides hours of touch-based entertainment, with more exclusive titles than the other systems, and more games geared towards fun and a younger audience.
Whatever system you decide to buy, you’re sure to a lot of fun alone, or with friends and family over the holidays.
What makes this ps3 such a multi-media powerhouse? The Graphical User inter-phase that the ps3 uses is called an XrossMediaBar which is pronounced Cross Media Bar, or abbreviated XMB. This media bar includes nine different categories which are: Users, settings, Photo, Music, Video,Game, Network, PlayStation Network, and Friends. The ps3 has the ability to store master and secondary user profiles just like your computer. USB ports on the front of the ps3 make it compatible with USB supported keyboards,mouse, and mass storage or flash drives. It has a NetFront web browser that supports compatible file downloading. You can perform video chat across the web through the friends menu which allows mail and emoticon and attached picture features. (PlayStation Eye or Eye toy web cam is required) You can even shop online through the PlayStation store via Network menu.
The PlayStation 3 is a multimedia powerhouse and if you are like me you want to utilize everything that your system has to offer. When you hear of all the good things the ps3 has to offer it starts to sound like ps3 music. Speaking of music ps3 offers a variety of ways you can enjoy your favorite tunes. You can explore your favorite photos with or without a musical slide show and you can just slide in your favorite audio Cd, DVD, Blu-ray disc, Super Audio Cd or an optional USB mass storage device to enjoy your music. Play and copy your audio CD tracks to an optional attached storage device, play video files and movies straight from the hard disk drive or any of the optional attached storage mediums. The PlayStation 3 might not be too cost friendly to consumers as of right now. It is however, worth every cent that you spend on it.
Will the Economic Crisis that we are going through affect your gaming?
How will the gaming industry be affected by the economic crisis that we are going through? The U.S. Economy is at an all time low and big wig companies like AIG, Washington Mutual, Meril Lynch, and Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac have all taken the big plunge. These are banks that hold the funds for the world and they have fallen. The stock market is in a state of shock loosing a trillion + dollars due to a failed bail out plan.
This is a very serious time that we are living in and what does this means to the big gaming companies that produce all the great ps3 game consoles that we have learned to embrace in this great technological era. The seriousness of this economic crisis reaches from America and clear across to Japan. Is the gaming industry in peril or will peoples need to feel entertained bring these big companies through?
What is your opinion on taking a chance to win 1 of three big ticket items for $5 a ticket? There is a giveaway that is going on at www.playstation3video.com and they are giving away 1 ps3 game console including 3 games and 2 Sony PSPs with gold plated faces. (C-3p0 editions) That is a total of 3 chances of winning 1 of 3 big ticket items with a value totalling over $800. Is it worth paying five dollars on taking a chance to win?
Some people feel that there has to be a cause for this and others feel that it is just like buying a lottery ticket. You see an item you want and you pay money to take a chance on winning it.
NASA develops a new way to study how video games can help lead to a healthier life. “This technology is a spin-off of NASA research where we measure the brain activity of pilots in flight simulators,” according to co-inventor Alan Pope, Ph.D. The technology that Dr. Pope is referring to is a new form of their biofeedback.
“Thirty years of biofeedback research has shown that by training specific brainwave changes, or reductions in other abnormal physiological signals, people can achieve a wide variety of health-enhancing outcomes,” said Dr. Olafur Palsson, assistant professor of psychiatry and family medicine at EVMS. “With this new technology, we have found a way to package this training in an enjoyable and inherently motivating activity.”
The new twist in this technology is training people to change their on brainwaves and other physiological functions when they are playing some of the popular off the shelf gaming systems. Sensors are attached to the head and body of the gamer and information is sent to a signal-processing unit which is linked to the joystick of the video game or other control device. The object is for the player to change their brainwaves to come to an optimal, stress-free pattern and in-turn the joystick or control device will become easier to control. This kind of control is what is needed to succeed at the game. I would also like to point out the controller that the participant is using and it seems to me that that is a ps3 style controller. I am willing to bet that there is some super ps3 console somewhere behind the scene.
It is no secret that custom-firmware exists for the Sony PSP. What about the ps3, will the developer Dark-Alex who brought you all the custom-firmwares for the Sony PSP, pull a rabbit out of the hat. Will he make the ps3 functional like its older kid brother the Sony PSP?
For those who do not know what custom-firmware is let us give you a brief history. Upon the release of the Sony PSP hackers began to discover exploits in the PSP that could be used to run various types of unsigned code on the system. To combat these attempts Sony would change the firmware to another version which would give the PSP a different functionality and also plug the holes that the hackers were exploiting. Dark Alex is the hacker that is mostly responsible for all the flip flopping from Sony to Hackers. Sony will plug it and Dark Alex will unplug it. Since 2006 Sony has changed the PSP firmware 12 times. Have anyone heard of the saying if you can’t beat-em you might as well join them? I wonder what Dark Alex has up his sleeves for the Sony ps3 consoles.
There is an ongoing debate on which system has the better graphics. Gamers tend to lean toward the system that they like the best because; Hey, they just like it. But what are the cold hard facts which system has the best technology that will prove without a shadow of doubt that they have the best graphics.
In my opinion the Sony ps3 is going to have the better graphics. I have one hyphenated word for you and that is; Blu-ray. For those that don’t know what Blu-ray is let me shed some light on this subject. Blu-ray is an optical disc storage medium that uses a high definition video and data storage. The Blu-ray derived from the blue laser that is used to read and write the typed of data that is used on the Blu-ray discs. The beam of a Blu-ray laser has a shorter wave lenghth (405 nanometers) than that of a standard red laser(650 nanometers) which is used for regular DVD formats. A two layer Blu-ray DVD can store almost six times the capacity of a two layer DVD, and that is ten times more than a single-layer DVD. Dual layer Blu-ray discs can store 50 gigabytes of information. This one peace of technology is a big determining factor in which system has the better graphics. The Sony PlayStation 3 has a 3.2 Ghz Cell Broadband Engine with 1 PPE & 7 SPEs and its GPU is a 550 MHz Nvidia/SCEI RSX ‘Reality Synthesizer.’ This is what makes Sony the top of the food chain in video game graphics.
Sony Computer Entertainment is the company that made the Playstation 3.
Otherwise known as PS3 for Sony, this console is the third generation of their gaming systems.
The Sony Playstation 3 competes with Microsoft’s 2nd generation Xbox, which is called the Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s seventh generation system known as the Nintendo Wii.
There are some major features that distinguish the Playstation 3 from its predeccessors. They are unified online gaming (Playstation Network), robust multimedia capabilities, connectivity with the Playstation Portable (Sony PSP), and its use of high-definition optical disc format(Sony Blu-Ray). The Sony Playstation 3 was also the first Blu-ray 2.0-compliant Blu-ray player to hit the market. These are just some of the features that keep Sony leading the way in the video game industry of today.
The Playstation3 comes is a variety of different styles to cater to each individual. The ps3 game consoles include 80GB, 60GB and 40GB. The higher the gigabyte level, the more room there is to save and download games.
The 80GB and 60GB ps3 are also backwards-compatible, which means ps1 and ps2 games can be played on them. And all three systems play BlueRay discs, which are next-generation, high-definition DVDs.
Video game systems are ever-evolving and the Playstation3 is a great example of the direction they should be going in. The system not only provides a wide array of realistic looking games to play, it doubles as a BluRay player for those interested in next-generation DVD.
The ps3 game controllers operate on Bluetooth, so you’re not tethered to the system by a cord, and the system connects to the internet so you can play with friends and download new games. The Playstation3 has fun and versatile uses that appeal to everyone.