by Ian Black

Created on: November 26, 2008

Designed by Microsoft, XBox 360 has three types of model: The Arcade, the Premium, and the Elite.

The Arcade is the transitional gaming console for first-timers. What I mean by "transitional", is basically someone taking a break from either the Sony's hit Playstation 2 console or Playstation 3, and wanting a change in computer gaming. The Arcade isn't all that great a console, even though it is suitable for first-timers, players are going to be somewhat disappointed with it. The reason I say this is, because the Arcade doesn't have the ability to save a lot of gaming information onto its hard-drive system. The wireless controllers for Xbox 360 offer each and ever player at least 30 hours of gameplay, before having to recharge their controllers. Even though XBox 360 doesn't need a particular type of television to play on to make it look really authentic - unlike the newest installment of Sony's Playstation 3 needing an HD-TV - XBox 360 can work on any television system.

When it comes to the XBox 360 Premium-based model of the gaming console, I KNOW I'm going to get a lot better value for my money. How do I know this? Well, look at the information. XBox 360 Premium offers players the ability to play their own music on the machine, at the same time they are playing either Gears of War 2, Call of Duty: World at War - any game - they can just download their selected tracks from the Internet, and enjoy their own music selection whilst playing their favorite game. However, when it comes to the Arcade version, this compatability isn't capabale with the memory hard-drive. The Premium also has the ability to allow players to hook up to the Internet to play other players across the planet, never mind next door! The disadvantage about this, though...is that people have to pay 40 pounds - yearly - for the Net process to remain applicable to their gaming machines on the Premium. There are certain little gibets that can be attained for the XBox 360; like Internet Adaptor cables...but even if you're not keen on spending 55.99 pence on such a costly item...if you have a wireless rooter connected somewhere in the house, you can connect your console via the wireless rooter (I'm not entirely sure if players still have to pay the forty pounds yearly, if they chose to connect it via the rooter system), but it was merely a suggestion.

The reason I am not keen on the newest Playstation system brought to us by Sony...is because the price for the machine is so substantial! The machine

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