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So it’s E3 again, every gamer looks forward to all the announcements, new games and technologies.

This is the first year that I'm not impressed by what I have seen at E3, the next gen consoles are a joke in my opinion.

Both the Xbox360 and PS3 are hugely disappointing, the graphics are only slightly improved over the older versions. And the cost of gaming with these new consoles is going to be just as, if not more expensive than PC gaming. 

xbox360Dan has been planning to make his gaming PC for about $1000 without a screen… You can get a good gaming pc, not cutting edge, but something that provides just as good graphics as the Xbox360.

The cost of an Xbox360 is about $500, plus you need a HDTV, otherwise you might as well stick with the old Xbox, HDTV are around $1000, so its looking at about the same price as a gaming pc, then add $50 for Xbox live along with your broadband connection makes online gaming more expensive than pc gaming…

Oh and then you have to buy the games, check out steam on the PC, most games are about $20, most Xbox360 games are $50-60 you can buy the whole valve catalogue for $70 which is at least 10 high quality games.

Quite frankly console gaming is getting crazy, there isn’t enough creativity in the industry to make the cost viable, nearly every game on the new consoles is a sequel or a 2007 version of an older game from the previous generation.

Just do the maths, either get yourself an overpriced flash Xbox or PS2 with slightly improved graphics and an expensive TV with 2-3 years life expectancy or a gaming PC that will not only do games but everything else a PC does as well as the internet, IM and VOIP calls, all without paying service charges like Xbox live.

And don’t worry about the old saying that your PC will be out of date in a month, my pc is 3 years old and still plays pretty much every game you can throw at it, I think F.E.A.R is the first game it has struggled with. 

wiiNintendo are the odd-one-out here, The Wii looks to be something a little more revolutionary (see what I did there :P ), with an interesting and different controller, little improvement on graphics over the Gamecube and a focus on great gaming rather than MS and Sony’s efforts to make a home entertainment centre that not only plays games but does films too (is there anything else they do?), at only $250 as well!

I cant wait to see what Nintendo have planned, Sony already like what they are doing as they have copied the Wii controllers tilt and motion sensing in their new dual shock 3 (minus force feedback due to the law suit).

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