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Appropriately enough, Nintendo has always been an innovator in taking video game health threats to the next level. Years before the Wii, the Virtual Boy, the company’s ill-fated three-dimensional portable console, was notorious for its possible side effects—dizziness, headaches, and the like—and subsequent health warnings. Unsurprisingly, the system failed spectacularly. But as infamous as the Virtual Boy was, today’s new wave of innovative controllers has sparked a much broader wave of undeniably dangerous games...
...Xbox 360 (and its new trimmings) as feats of hitherto unseen technological wonder. Both companies have bet recklessly on their platforms, and both see them as gaming plus a whole lot more. So while the gaming world has its own critiques - and while the Nintendo Wii continues to charm with its less performance-based attitude - my desire was to see what the Xbox and PS3 could do in the way of movies, music and other entertainment. I tethered both of them to a smokin' 46-in. Sharp 1080p high-definition LCD TV and let them...
...priced for the future too. In the U.S., Sony is charging $500 for the 20-gigabyte edition and $600 for the 60-GB box. (By comparison, the Xbox 360 costs $300 for a basic version and $400 for one with a hard drive; the Nintendo Wii console costs $250.) Throw in a few PS3 games, at $60 a pop, and you're out $900--a sum that may scare off consumers. And PS3 already frightens stock analysts. "We do not believe the machine provides incentives for buyers to buy a new machine ... except some game maniacs," Merrill Lynch analyst Hitoshi...
...Look at what you get. The Playstation 3 is expensive: $500 or $600 bucks, depending on which version you buy, plus $60 for each game. (An Xbox 360 only costs $400 max, and Nintendo's Wii - yep, that name, still funny - is only $250.) For that kind of scratch you want the deluxe treatment, and the PS3 simply doesn't deliver it. It's got some good-looking games, but unless you have a top-notch TV, the difference isn't mind-blowing. (And even if you do have a fancy TV, Sony makes you supply your own HDMI cable...
...residents of Mower A-21 are no strangers to late nights spent over gaming consoles, and their room reflects it. Hundreds of DVDs and games for various systems jostle for space with such ponderous volumes as War and Peace and a molecular biology textbook, while Nintendo 64 cartridges occupy their own floor compartment. When it comes to the contests that play out on the room’s 32-inch Sony television, the Mower suite’s residents have many means of sorting out the true champions from the mere dabblers. Their collection of consoles includes...