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Xbox 360 and PS3 battle for title of teens’ favorite gaming console

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March 29, 2010

Peter DelMedico and Ben Edwards

It’s 3:47 P.M., and students are just getting home from school, and want nothing more than to escape the everyday and enter a land where anything is possible.

If you’re male and attend Hoban, chances are you have a video game console. You may still be playing your older brother’s Sega Genesis or a coveted Nintendo 64, but the majority of gamers have fallen to the technological enigmas called video games consoles. Sony and Microsoft run the world of video games and of many younger boys’ lives.

“There are certain times when it’s the most important thing in my life,” said sophomore John Paradise. “It is my Call to Duty.”

The modern marvels are Sony’s PS3 and Microsoft‘s Xbox 360. Consumers tend to defend the system they own to the death so the argument over which is better is brutally biased… until now. The sleek PS3 is the zenith of gaming and entertainment.

“It has everything you could ask for in a system,” junior Nate Tarr said.

The phrase “you get what you pay for” is quintessential to the argument over the inflated price of a PS3. The 250 gigabyte PS3 costs $350 and its 120 gigabyte counterpart is $300. Don’t think you’re paying $300+ to abandon your mountains of Playstation 1 and 2 games. The PS3 is backward compatible with Sony’s other two systems. This means gamers can play any classic playstation game on the PS3.

“My dad and I play for hours,” junior Anthony Arnone said. “It doesn’t matter what game, they are all good.”

One characteristic that is totally unique to Sony’s system is the built in Blu-Ray DVD player.

The Xbox 360 transcends the norm for the basic console. Microsoft’s unique ability to take the graphics of the PS3 and the family/party games for the Wii and put it all in one package sets it apart from competition. Perhaps the most envied feature of the Xbox though is Xbox Live, where over the Internet; gamers can play with people all over the world, download game demos and even check Facebook.

“Day after day, Xbox live continues to astonish me. I love having the ability to virtually shoot people from all over the world,” senior hardcore gamer Brian Gibbons said. “I would give my left arm for a subscription to Xbox Live, although that would make it difficult to actually play Xbox Live.”

Another plus is that the Xbox 360 will not break the bank, as it runs anywhere from $150 to $300 depending on how much memory a gamer desires.

With the high-intensity graphic processor of the PS3 and the well rounded fun for everyone in the family Xbox, this is one argument that might never be resolved.

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