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alone costs about three hundred pounds! - whereas the Microsoft's machine costs about a hundred and fifty pounds. Also, when it comes to the PS3, I am greatly disappointed that I cannot have the ability to play normal DVDs on the machine, like you were with the previous console of the PS2. They now have something called "Blue-Ray" DVDs, the next generation of DVD accessibilty. But since it doesn't allow people to enjoy a normal DVD system on the machine, I feel this is a big, big let-down for me. Controllers themselves for the machine are rediculous! The fact that you have free Internet compatibility is something to rejoice, but it still doesn't do it for me. Even though XBox 360 still make players pay for Net access, I am still thoroughly more impressed with what I am getting for my money, than I am with Sony's Playstation 3.

There is one other model hosted by the Microsoft group: The XBox 360 Elite. This machine is inconsequential, completely pointless to purchase. Even though I am a gaming enthusiast, the fact that it has about 120GB of memory, comes in the sexy color of black, just doesn't impress me. I know the system gives me triple the amount of information I can save on the console, I don't see the point in at all. The Elite is really for the Pro-gamers, the ones that will sit in their bedrooms, playing the machine relentlessly for six to ten hours a day. This kind of behavior is just outrageous!

But I would be more than happy to purchase the XBox 360 Premium model because I am guranteed something special for enjoyment. There is also the opportunity to select a wireless and or wired controller for the Premium models, where Sony's PS3 just has wireless. I would be a bit nervous about purchasing wireless controllers, because if I put something down, and come back hours later, there is the possibility I can't find it anymore. My fear, is losing the controller. Whereas I can feel more at ease by selecting the option of a wired up controller.

A word of advice to anyone thinking of purchasing any kind of gaming console, whether it's the Playstation 3 or the XBox 360, never, NEVER stand the machine up-right. Why? The laser inside the machine, which reads the disc, can really damage the game. Lie your machines flat on the floor, but never up-right. You don't want to be disappointed in purchasing a new game like Call of Duty: World at War, and when you have been playing it relentlessly for hours, you wake up in the morning to the horrifying truth that you find a perfect circular burn mark round the edges of game disc. The game cannot be returned to the store if this happens.

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