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Gaming Week

This week, we’ve got 2 gaming related event held, which were the TGS06, Tokyo Game Show 2006 and X06 @ Barcelona. Microsoft announced HD-DVD Drive for 199USD for the US and approximately 170USD for the Japan. Xbox 360 wireless headset will be selling for 59USD and featuring 8 hours of usage time. Cool huh? Imagine sitting on the comfortable couch at your lovely living room, with a large HDTV, playing Halo 3 on your Xbox 360 with a wireless controller and wireless headset, scolding your opponent that killed you, isn’t that fun? Everything is wireless, no wire on the floor, your living room will look so tidy and clean and perfect. Today in school during Art lesson, I was thinking about this 2 console, Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360, it seems like getting a 60GB PS3 is worthful than getting a Premium X360+HDDVD External Drive. It’s like this, PS3 already included the Blu-Ray drive and HDMI output, and a 60GB HDD, while X360 which is 399USD(20GB HDD) + 199USD(HDDVD Drive w/ Peter Jackson’s King Kong HDDVD Disc) = 598USD. So the point is, the HDD capacity is different, 1 is 60GB with HDMI output and X360 is only 20GB with no HDMI outout announced yet, people claimed that with HDMI output will produce a high quality motion picture and the output is far better than component and VGA output which X360 is using. Let’s wait to see who will win the High Def Gaming War, we don’t talk about Nintendo Wii here, Nintendo Wii has its own road to go, and since it is not a High Def machine, it is a new concept of gaming, so it will be like (PS3/X360) + Nintendo Wii at home. PS3 launching in US, Europe and Japan in November and December, but not in Asia country. Bad Sony, why you do this to us gamer living in Asia? Luckily, since it is not region lock, I can get wherever PS3 from, but the price might be too pricy because a PS3 60GB is 599USD > RM2200 + shipping fee, it might hit RM2500 which is really expensive, how am I gonna get it?