Playstation 3 is one of the most powerful gaming consoles ever built and is also one of the most expensive ones as well. This video game system is produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and also rivals the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. The playstation 3 was released to the US gaming market in mid November in the fall of 06’. In 2007, there will be no new gaming systems for the holidays; it will still be these big three.

What gave the playstation 3 its power? This gaming system is the capable of playing in high definition and has the Blu-ray Disc media storage system. Blu-ray is one of the most powerful media technologies available. This lead to the playstation’s extremely high costs of around $600 in the US. It actually costs the manufacturer of playstation over $800 to produce, which gave Sony a $200 loss on each system which they planned covering with the sale of their games.

This year, playstation 3 has reduced the hard drive to 40GB on their new version and has 65nm chips in place to reduce power consumption, hence less heat and a quieter system. Sony has also added an internal battery to keep the time when the system is turned off, which is a practical change. This also reduces the problems that plagued the original playstation 3 since there were many hardware failures and extremely high costs because of this.

If you are a serious gamer, PS3 is probably going to be a good choice. Not only will you be getting the high definition experience, you will also be getting the online play and the computer system built into it. The Xbox 360 rivals playstation in terms of its processing speed and the media system but it has drawbacks. A great benefit of PS3 is the ability to play the old games from the PS2 and PS1. You can play these games, but you have to download them. While the Xbox 360 won’t allow you to play old Xbox games unless you find an emulator of sorts.

Another reason that playstation 3 is for the serious gamers only is because of its serious costs. In the 2007 holiday season, the prices should be about the same as last year. This is not a system that can handle a lot of beatings so you probably won’t want to buy this for small kids. The PS3 and its sensitive hardware wouldn’t be able to handle constant falls off the TV stand or kids falling on it on the floor. Good systems for kids would be old beaters like the original playstation, Nintendo or Sega genesis. The newer Nintendo Wii has been known to work well with gamers of any age and the controllers were built to handle a beating.

The moral of the playstation 3 system is if you are a serious enough gamer to spend over $500, then it will take great care to maintain the system. You will also need to invest in an HDTV to experience the High-Def features. The benefit is you will have the best of the best technology and highest end gaming media out there.

WoW! I can’t believe it.. the PS3 is behind the curve on half life.  C’mon Sony, let’s pick it up.

Framerate is a consistent issue throughout the Half-Life series of games included in The Orange Box. One moment you’ll be cruising through the game at 30 frames per second and the next you’ll be enjoying a slideshow of series protagonist Gordon Freeman cruising down the river. However, Portal suffers from no such technical hiccups and is on its way to being a pitch-perfect port of the spatial reasoning exercise. Due to a server connection issue, we were unable to get any time with Team Fortress 2.

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Yes; It’s true PS3 is going to own the market. With games like Warhawk, GTA, and the upcoming SOCOM releases the Xbox is going to be left in the dust. However; if the awesome games won’t sell you then check this out:

PS3 is going to support DivX

Torrenters and pirate’s rejoice! Wanna watch that latest movie you just ‘backed up’ to DivX on your PS3? Good! We do too. The playstation 3 is now a moviestation, a pronstation, and the best gaming system since the Nintendo NES.

PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3(TM)) from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE). The popular computer entertainment system will be added to the ecosystem of devices that currently support DivX video playback. To date, over 100 million DivX Certified(R) products have been shipped into the market, and it is anticipated PS3 will significantly expand that number.

“We are excited to work with Sony Computer Entertainment to bring DivX to PS3,” said Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX, Inc. “Our technology will expand the multimedia functionality of PS3 by enabling users to enjoy access to the broad library of content in the DivX digital media format.”

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Well last night I had quite the adventure in Wal-Mart. Warhawk was in my mind and I was determined to a purchase. Earlier the price online that I found was about 30 dollars so and that was no big deal. When I found the game it was double the price, 60 dollars. This did discourage me at first but after reading the box I found it came with a bluetooth headset. Now I absolutely had to get it because I am without one of these little toys and would like to see if it works with my PDA and cell phone. No modifications were necessary and I was talking on the headset on the way home to play Warhawk.

After getting home and loading the game and downloading the patch I was up and running. The controls to this game were tricky to get at first but after 30 minutes of practice I was able to kill my first foreign kid. Oddly enough the first kill I got was out of frustration, turning to my knife I ran around like a maniac hacking at every moving target - finally I scored a hit and dropped an enemy. In the same life I was able to get another kill right after the first so I was riding high for at least 5 seconds before I stepped on a grenade.

If you see a guy online named “ThothraMerkaba” and you notice him running around looking for the robots to control and nuke the map be nice to him, cause that guy is me. Overall the graphics of Warhawk are amazing, 10 out of 10. Controls were difficult to learn and it is almost impossible to steer and change weapons simultaneously so controls get a 6/10 from me. The online play is a plus, the only online play is not so much of a plus. They have an in game ranking system and it appears like it would take a very very long time to ever get close to maxing your account out. So far I have logged about 10 hours playing and have unlocked nothing, but I did get 2 awards.