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Xbox 360

These days i have access to Microsoft Corporation's latest gaming machine, Xbox 360. I have been trying to log on to Xbox 360 Live for quite sometime but the unavailability of a networking wire always came in the way. So yesterday i took the initiative and got the wire from a store nearby. When everyone was sound asleep i set on the quest of playing a game online. I had all the required things for having a fun night of games with online gamers worldwide. I had the latest gaming console. I had the fastest DSL connection. I had Windows Live account and i had quiet in the house. I thought that i am on the road to success. But it was not to be so. Everything worked except for the damned EA Sports server. I could not connect to the EA server and thus could not get the online experience i was looking for.
Microsoft has done a great job at packaging a full entertainment unit in Xbox. You can play online games. You can store pictures. Download videos and movies and Drama series. It is all in one doorway to the world of entertainment. But in the end all the entertainment depends upon fast and furious internet connections and a lot of money. Everything costs money and loads of it. Little wonder that this online gaming phenomenon is little practiced in Pakistan on these platforms.
Xbox has two competitors in the market and both of them are way better in their own different ways. Nintendo has the new controller that makes playing a whole new experience and turns it into a craft. On the other hand Sony's Play Station 3 is sheer technological artwork. So much so that people waited for days in line to buy a single console.
One interesting aspect is that if you buy the components of Sony's PlayStation piece by piece and try to build a platform it will cost you a lot more than the console sold by Sony. The company had to price it down so that it could sell the consoles. The graphics chip alone in the console is worth more than the console price itself. Then again the consoles re in short supply and eBay saw consoles being sold at as much as 2000 US Dollars.
The gaming world is fantastic and gaming geeks are living in their own fictional galaxy on a high that keeps them wry of the world that they are a part of.

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