The Sound of Games – The latest of PS3, Wii and Xbox

You have heard about them everywhere. This wasn’t just about games or gaming consoles but it was about something more than this. You must have read the reviews in almost every newspaper, magazine or ezine. This was all because the fight wasn’t about the competition between the gaming consoles but the manufacturers. With the introduction of new age games gamers witnessed some of the most unusual fights between the games. After the launch of the Microsoft Xbox 360, the whole gaming industry was in a shock to see the features of this gaming console. Powered by the software giant Microsoft, this console had everything which can be called contemporary and a geek’s delight. After Xbox release the other giants of gaming hurried to show their prowess and they launched their gaming consoles with various features and unique design. The two giants who gave competition to Xbox are Sony’s PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii.

If Xbox is a faster and trendy gaming console then you can say the Play Station is a smarter version and for Wii the word smartest aptly suits. Recently we heard news about the pricing issue of the Play Station as it is priced very high. But after the Play Station success Sony had to make something out of ordinary to sustain its success. So the launch of Play Station 3 made some remarkable change in the gaming industry. And that was the time when people almost went crazy about this game console and I can still remember

those queues outside the shop where this console was supposed to be released. And everything suddenly changed when Nintendo introduced Wii. Yes, Nintendo Wii (pronounced as ‘we’) almost allured all gamers and started making bigger headlines than the Xbox and PS3. It seemed as if the Wii is going to take up the entire market share from these gaming consoles.

Xbox 360 is powered by the IBM PowerPC based CPU and three symmetrical 3.2 GHz processor. Xbox comes with a 512 memory GDDR3 RAM and 700 MHz DDR memory. It has a 20 GB hard drive which is enabled with wireless controllers. These features have made Xbox a new generation gaming console. And in PS3 you get 60 GB hard drive. It has a built in 802.11 b/g wireless. Powered by Cell PowerPC processor this console has a 256 MB XDR Main RAM at 3.2 GHz and 256 MB GDDR3 VRAM at 700 MHz. and now comes the latest Wii which is gorged with various features. With a sleek design Nintendo Wii is the latest addition to the advanced gaming console series. Wii what seems to be a new code for gaming revolutions has a developed CPU. It has an ATI graphics chip. You get an USB 2.0 expansion ports and built in support for Wi-Fi internet access. All the controllers of Wii as wireless. Wii has a backwards compatibility with GameCube, NES, SNES and Nintendo 64. now all we can do is just wait and watch as we can’t even predict what more can follow these gaming consoles.