About Game Consoles

Sony announced that the Playstation 3 will be released in two configurations. The first one is the premium version. Units with this configuration come with Blu-ray disc drive, USB ports, Wi-Fi connectivity, memory card readers, and an internal 60-Gb hard drive. The alternate version, on the other hand, has only a 20-GB internal hard drive and does not come with Wi-Fi features and memory card readers. However, the user has the option to upgrade the hard drive and connect memory card readers via adapters. The Wi-Fi feature, however, cannot be installed.

With the blu-ray drive, PS3 users can play movies and game discs. Because a blu-ray disc has a capacity of holding up 54 GB of data, users will not have to want for additional media space.

The portable hard disks provide the system with the required storage space needed for Playstation Network applications, downloads, and other files. For the games, the hard drive will also be used for saving game points.

Sony Playstation expected price

In the United States, the expected pricing release of the 20-GB is $499 and $599 for the 60-GB. In Japan, the price lists about $430 for the 20-GB. Meanwhile, for the European release, the 20-GB and the 60-GB versions cost $550 ad $660, respectively. The PS3 console is elegantly designed to feature pleasing lines and curves. Moreover, the PS3 case is outlined with a highly developed cooling system to deal with the heat output released from the system power supply and the Cell processor. Early models of the Playstation 3 consoles were in silver, white, and black.

A video game console is an electronic device embedded with powerful hardware, software and services which integrates high-definition video, DVD movie playback, digital music, photos and online connectivity. It can be said that Video game consoles are interactive entertainment devices that control the video display signals of the monitor.

Sony Playstation 3 is marked by swanky design, user friendly controls, and hi-definition games. Plus, it also offers the advantage of high-def Blu-ray movies in addition to standard DVDs, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, built in memory card reader and a whooping 60 GB of hard disk. It might be priced a little high, but such enthralling is the gaming experience that you would not mind to pay such a heavy premium.

On the other hand, Japanese manufacturer gives the doze of surreal excitement with Nintendo Wii. It features a wireless controller with three dimensional motion detection capabilities – first of its kind in the market. So, while you drive your vehicle at 150 Mph, you simply take advantage of the wireless control, for those quick escapes. Which means to more relying on ‘control’ and ‘action’ keys?

The target of gaming consoles are not on the entertainment as with that big players in the market are also offering infotainment. For instance Xbox 360 from the well renowned house of Microsoft provides high definition that empowers Power PC-based CPU with 3 symmetrical cores and graphic processor with 10MB of embedded DRAM. Apart from that, it offers users to click life-like pictures with built-in digital camera. Adding more onto its entertainment wing, one can watch DVD movies, play music on CD or MP3.