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Sales

If of course you are looking into sales (which I am not) then Wii comes out on top. However from my opinion (a person who has owned all of the Nintendo Consoles) this has been the worse console that Nintendo have ever made. The question to ask is why?

The major reason why is simply because they do not give a damn about all of the past fans that made them money before the Wii, the majority of new games are aimed at idiots and Nintendo fans rarely see the light of day. with Mario Kart on the Wii that just seemed to take out all of the things that made Double Dash A great game, it has sold because more kids will buy it. In all my time of playing Mario they have never used the same idea twice, what on earth is Mario Galaxy 2 all about?.

So as you can see the Wii is out of it.

Online and other

It cannot be said that the PS3 is a bad console with games such as Uncharted proving just how good the console can be. The online although it is free it is very poor and you always find yourself in a game with people unable to speak English. I still do not know why language filters are not in there? Is Blu-Ray the only decent thing going for the PS3.

The 360 has the best games, the best experience when playing and a really good online community. Do not get a Wii as although it is said to be for the entire family, the kids and you will get bored quickly. 360 or a PS3 is the way forward.

To make sure these will not have to be replaced for some serious money, get game console insurance or gadget insurance. Of course you could also get some mobile phone insurance while you are at it.

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Sales

If of course you are looking into sales (which I am not) then Wii comes out on top. This console has easily been their worst yet and this comes from someone who owns all of their previous entries. So why is this?

The major reason why is simply because they do not give a damn about all of the past fans that made them money before the Wii, the majority of new games are aimed at idiots and Nintendo fans rarely see the light of day. Mario Kart Wii was at best disappointing as they seemed to take out everything that made Double Dash good. As well as this they are copying Mario Galaxy by adding in a few variations to levels in Mario Galaxy 2.

The Wii (in my opinion) is certainly out of it already.

Online and other

It cannot be said that the PS3 is a bad console with games such as Uncharted proving just how good the console can be. However, online, although free, is slow, poor and features many people who cannot even speak English within it. I do not understan why they did not add language filters? Is Blu-Ray the only decent thing going for the PS3.

It would certainly seem that the Xbox 360 has the best online service, the best games and the bettter experience. Do not get a Wii as although it is said to be for the entire family, the kids and you will get bored quickly. 360 or a PS3 is the way forward.

To make sure these will not have to be replaced for some serious money, get game console insurance or gadget insurance. Of course you could also get some mobile phone insurance while you are at it.

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Where do gamers go?

The choices you have as a gamer are:

1. Buy (Online, Ebay, used, Gamestop..)
2. Rent (Gamefly, blockbuster…)
3. Trade (Goozex, Switchplanet..)

Renting in the past at your brick and mortar rental place can easily set you back more then $5-$7 every week like Blockbuster. There have been other online rental game sites that charge a monthly fee like /month for one game out like Gamefly. Renting isn’t all together bad but playing videogames isn’t like watching movies. There is a considerable larger amount of time invested in videogames then in movies. Most movies range from 1.5 hours to epics of 6 hours. Where most videogames you could get a good feel for a game in 3 hours but most sports games and long role playing games could be played for more then 70 hours.

This is where Goozex steps in. Goozex allows the gamer to keep the game as long as you want but have the option to sell it too. There is only a $1 transaction fee if you request a game on their network. So basically you can trade in your older games and build up Goozex credit until you get enough for a newer title and just pay the $1 transaction fee. A shipping and handling is handled by sender and the buyer only pays . There is no monthly membership so you can stop at anytime or go at a slower pace. This is ideal in the sense that you could play the game until you are actually sick of it then send it in for credit. So you’re not rushed to get as many games played on the network because you can play at your own pace. Plus you OWN the game. From then on the game is yours, not a rental.

You only send games directly to the next member. There is no single central warehouse and the pricing of the credits of the system are in points (100pts = $5). The pricing of the game is determined by market demand, release date, initial cost of the game, and a couple other factors. Most xbox 360 titles will go for 800-1000 pts which translates to $40-$50. This isn’t bad for a used game. Some money can be saved buying used but there is still tax and travel time/cost. Goozex gives you free shipping to you with no tax charge. You also have an option to buy credits if you want but I wouldn’t recommend that unless you have no games to send in or nothing of yours is being requested. The game prices will fluctuate and you will see the price change in your history. I’ve had a couple games I requested and I can see that price increase/decrease. It doesn’t happen that much but some games change +/- 200pts depending on market demand.

So why use Goozex instead of a used videogame store or an auction site with games like Ebay? You just need $1 to pay for the transaction fee. Most people don’t like to continually shell out more money for a game and then feel like the games they bought are depreciating at a very fast rate. Selling your game for cash anywhere will not give you that much. Brick and mortar stores resell your games for a huge mark up. Selling online is tiresome. Goozex at least you get to trade in games you are done with and still get some value out of it as it will lead to other games you really want. There might be more difficulty in sending older sports titles as those don’t have much demand once their season is up like trying to sending in EA sports Madden 2005 will be a hard game to sell to someone on the network. Older games on ebay are a hassle to sell. On Goozex you will be able to list it and it will just stay there without having to pay insertion fees.

Each videogame is packed with information like reviews from Gamepro, some tips/trick, game description, and some even have instructions. I love being able to see the supply and demand of each game. This will let you know if you have a game people want or if you can possibly get a game on the network. Goozex determines who gets the game by matching up users. There is a waiting list that is generated and when you add a game you will see in what place you are waiting for that game. This is a fabulous idea as impatient gamers can tell if they should expect a game soon. You need to make a list for want and haves for your games. They will show you your place in line per game. Great place to build your wishlist. It is ideal to have a very large set of games you want now so you will have a very good chance of getting a game soon. I was requesting Crackdown for the Xbox 360 and I was 60th person in line. I got this game in 14 days. Just because you’re really deep in line doesn’t mean you won’t get the game soon. Newer games do get pushed out in the system fairly quickly. You have many options to what you want to trade in terms of instructions, case or just game. This is helpful as some gamers tend to lose instructions and/or cases. The value of the game doesn’t go down as the credits don’t reflect what is included. This is because the user requesting the game can have the option to request only full packaged games, games with instructions, or just the game itself. I have not had a problem with getting full packages as I’ve gotten over 49 games and I’ve sent out 54 in under 2 years of being there.

Why NOT to use

For this site to be a perfect 5 star site I would like to see:

1. More users (will there ever be enough?)
2. More old school games (nes, snes, saturn….)
3. is still not free. I’m a member of another site that has no transaction fees yet still protects the members.
4. Sneak peak video game trailers
5. More community interaction (user reviews, recommendations…)

All the above are small tweaks to the system that is already very functional. The main reason someone would NOT want to use this system is time and money. If you have the dough you would just buy it new down the street? Why wait? The main draw to the site is how much money you can save and the community there. Save money and also connect with other gamers. If your very impatient then new release games will have to be purchased. I’ve experienced about 1-2 month turn around time for new games. Why? You are placed on a Que. The order of the Que determines when you get the new game, but more importantly is how many are available? Most people will play a new release for a certain amount of time before listing their games. The wait times do get long. Say you want to play a game that takes a long time to beat. You gotta factor in that a player like me would take over 1 month to beat a game like that. More popular games of course like Madden will hit the system quicker but that is also a bad thing. If you hold a game too long it will depreciate in value just like on the streets. Trading for early on might be for 1000 points but in a couple months with the market being saturated it could be 500 points in no time losing half of it’s value. Not Goozex’s fault but some games just don’t move well.

Current Goozex Simultaneous Transaction on the Network as of Mar 11, 2009 = 4793

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This is an argument that has been in debate not just for this generation of games consoles but since the beginning. Which console is the best this generation, Wii, 360 or PS3?

The Wii has sold very well that is without a doubt, but it really doesnt do much for me at all. The major let down is not the console but the games. The games are being made to a poor standard and to the general market. What happened to the fans Nintendo. Nintendo have also rather insultingly announced another Zelda DS game and Mario Galaxy 2 both of which seem to be almost complete copies of the previous edditions.

The PS3 is a good console. Blu-Ray is one of the reasons it has become such a success as well as the HD gaming and free online play. Free is not always a positive thing. The whole online experience is very poor on the PS3. The games available just for the PS3 are very poor to Microsoft’s Halo and Gears of War with Uncharted, Metal Gear and Resistance all being very poor games. The PS3 wand seems to be a bit off a rip off from the Wii as well.   

The Xbox 360 has to be top of the list simply because of the overall experience that is received. The games never hardly ever recieve lag simply because you pay for the service. Live recieves many updates that actually do things. Project Natal is also on the way for the Xbox which hopefully will mean only one thing, domination of this generation. Microsoft seems to be focusing in on their fans rather than the market which is always a good thing.

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This is an argument that has been in debate not just for this generation of games consoles but since the beginning. Is the best consoel going to be Wii, 360 or PS3?

Although if you are going on the basis of sales the Wii is top of the market it just doesn’t seem to be doing it for me personally. it is the games that are the problem on the wii not the console. The games are being made to a poor standard and to the general market. This is not a bad idea but Nintendo don’t seem to be making any games for their fans anymore. Although there is the promised Mario Galaxy 2 and Legend of Zelda DS both seem to be complete copies of the previous game and this certainly is a first for Nintendo.

The PS3 is a good console. Blu-Ray is the only real reason this console has sold and the only reason I purchased it. the word free should not always be used in a positive way. The whole online experience is very poor on the PS3. Compared to Gears of War and Halo the PS3 exclusives are not brilliant. The PS3 wand does seem to rip off the Wii.   

The Xbox 360 has to be top of the list simply because of the overall experience that is received. The games are a lot better and the online service (although paid for) never really recieves lag. Xbox Live seems to recieve many more updates that actually do things of importance. It is pretty much gurenteed that Natal will secure the sales the 360 needs to come out on top of Sony at least. Microsoft seems to be focusing in on their fans rather than the market which is always a good thing. They have also secured the rights to for the new Splinter Cell to be a 360 Exclusive which is going to be very nice indeed.

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Not only you can watch movies on your Blu-Ray disc player or DVD player but you can also watch movies on your PS3. You know, that little video game console from the world’s number one gizmo maker? Well, today, not only you can play video games on your video game console but you can even watch movies, browse the Internet and listen to music and what you need to do is just to install the Linux OS on your Play Station 3 and it’s a possibility. There is a book guide that will teach you how and where to get Linux for PS3 and once you have installed the software, you can literally do everything with it, the same things you can do with your PC or your home theater system.

At this time, only a few of the people have learned that they can install Linux on their PS3 and there are more things that anybody needs to know more on his favorite video game console other than playing video games and watching movies. With the Linux installed, you can practically do anything on your PS3 just like an ordinary PC unit. You can load images, edit them and you might even do a lot of spreadsheets and documents on your PS3. This is only possible when you get to do PS3 Linux installation. But the only problem is, how can you learn to do this?

As what have said earlier, there are book guides that are now spreading and are being promoted on the Internet and there are some people who have used some a book guide and have actually tried using it to install Linux OS on PS3 and they have succeeded. But they are emphasizing that in order to get the best book guide, find something that has a sort of PS3 Linux Yellow Dog system which will enable you to use your PS3 a whole lot more other than what is mentioned above.

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Do you know that you can run any PC applications, edit and save your files, browse the Internet, play older games, play games from other console types with the use of emulators on your PlayStation 3? That’s right, you can do all of these things on your favorite PS3 and the first thing that you need to learn is how to install a Linux for PS3 without voiding the warranty, that is, if it’s still on warranty. Anyway, if you want to learn how to do this thing, all you need to do first is to find a sort of book guide that will let you learn the right way on how to install the OS of Linux to your Sony Playstation 3, either Ubuntu or Yellow Dog.

A lot of people in the past have already discovered how to install Linux on a PS3 but they didn’t came out successful and to make matters worst, they have voided the warranty of their favorite video game console and they can’t do anything about it except to have it repaired which cost them a whole lot of dough. Then, they suddenly give up on the idea concluding that there is no way you can install a Linux OS, any Linux OS on a PS3 but that’s what they think. They just didn’t discover yet how to make it the right way.

Now, they will be more than surprised to know that there really is a right way to do the PS3 Linux Install procedure and it has even been featured in a book guide that is now circulating anywhere and all over the Internet. This is the result of one guy who once failed to do the Linux installation on his PS3 but as what Thomas Alva Edison said, in the own words of this writer: “You need to make a thousand and one mistakes in order to perfect a light bulb” and this guy did but this time, it’s a Linux installation on a PS3.

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With the current console battle in a full blown war, we take a look at the Playstation 3 and its huge price tag. There is a lot of people saying that the PS3 does not do justice to it price, but is this true? Theres one answer, which is no!

The Playstation 3 is a major piece of machinery and although the price tag may be a lot bigger than its rivals, the three consoles cannot, and should not really be compared. There is definatley a huge war going on between the major consoles. But for a manic game player you will be missing out on a lot if you do not get yourself all 3 of the major consoles, which are PS3, Xbox 360 and the Wii. We will now take a look at why you need all three.

Playstation 3
The hugely successful Playstation brand is much loved, and to be honest the PS3 has not let anyone down. The console may have a huge price tag, but let’s just think about what you are getting. A hard drive, probably a console with the best rendering of graphics, top titles and not to mention the Blu-ray. A Blu-ray is alone worth the PS3’s price tag.

Xbox 360
The 1st console to launch has a major advantage over its competitors and that is progress. The creators know how to manipulate the xbox to get the best. It has a wider range of games than the other 2.

Wii
The Nintendo Wii revolutionised playing consoles and games and with that came a new world of experience. Apparent a lot of the games or titles may not be serious, they are very exciting to take control of. The Nintendi Wii us a fabuous system that is family orientated.

So you can see that all consoles have their own positive approaches, but one of the main benefits is the broadness of the games. Alot of games only have individual platform rights to each console, so not getting all three could see you missing out on a great title. The PS3 is a must have console and should definatley be purchased.

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Today being frugal is part of what most of the people are looking for. The same trend is very popular in the niche of video game consoles and, in particular, in the niche of PS3s (PlayStation 3 consoles).

In this article I would like to give a short overview of how to get cheap PlayStation 3 legally.

But first of all, let me explain why the notion of getting PlayStation 3 for cheap is possible. You see, the Sony giant who is creating these wonderful video game consoles needs to make money, otherwise this branch of business will go down the drain.

That is why Sony understands that they need to be encouraging and proactive on the recession-bumped market.

Due to this, they are doing 2 things:

– make the prices for PlayStation 3 really affordable to the mass audience;

– give a big field of incentives for the vendors, so that these vendors have enough financial tools to persuade the purchaser to buy the console.

And this is where you – and the one who is looking for the cheap PlayStation 3 console – can get a real advantage on seeking for the bargains.

What are the typical ways to getting a good price for PS3?

First of all, think about famous online auctions. They are not the leader in terms of giving you the cheapest price. But their price still should be much better than what you are getting in the offline stores. Just make sure that the online vendor on the auction has good reputation, because this is where the crooks from time to time are cheating the buyers.

Look for the vouchers online. As mentioned above the vendors have enough financial tools in their hands to give great incentives. One of the incentives is a voucher. One great voucher can save you very nice lump sum of money on the purchase of PS3.

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Looking to buy a game console? Then you’ve probably been thinking about which system to get. Since all three big systems are excellent, how to you pick between them?

Now, let us take a closer look at each system. Every system has it’s own uniqure selling points and quirks. We’ll also discuss how to choose between the three and get the one thats right for you.

Let’s talk about the Wii first. When the Wii was released, the gaming world was taken by a storm. People who aren’t into gaming at all think the Wii is great. Grandmothers, wives, girlfriends: they are all playing video games for the first time.

Not a surprise: the Wii is amazingly fun! It’s motion sensing controller offers a whole new level of game play. Quite the impressive system, really. The Wii is not as great on the graphics, so if you’re into richly detailed shooters, the Wii isn’t your system.

This is not an issue with the PlayStation 3. Nothing was spared to make the PS3 a performance monster, yielding the best graphics of all three. The PS3 makes games look amazing. Some of the most popular gaming series are available for it, making it an even better choice.

The Xbox 360 is another hot performer. The performance of the Xbox 360 is quite impressive, as is its growing library of games. It comes in several system configurations that give you different levels of functionality out of the box. It also has large 3rd party support. If it’s accessories you’re looking for, you will not be disappointed.

The games should be the deciding factor when picking between these three systems. If you’re like most gamers, you’ll find you prefer the game offerings on one system over another. If you like games with innovative new gameplay, get a Wii. If you like Japanese franchises, most are on the PS3. If you like shooters, the controller makes these a blast to play. Think about what types of games you prefer, then choose from that.

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