Conspiracy theorists would say that Best Buy is clearing up space for a new SKU, but no matter what the reasons ultimately are, Best Buy will stop carrying the 80GB PS3 starting next week.
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There have been some unsubstantiated, yet insistent rumours of price cuts for both the Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 over the past week. Whether any of them are true or not, it poses the question of how the pricing strategy of all three major consoles is affecting sales.
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This has got to be a record.  A certain Xbox 360 owner has had his Xbox 360 repaired five times by Microsoft and it is still not working properly.  The company is supposed to replace any Xbox 360 after the fourth repair attempt but that did not happen.  This is the story of “Greg” and his attempts to get his Xbox 360 repaired.
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You shouldn’t blame yourself for your addiction if you cannot stop playing Call of Duty 4. You and the rest of the FPS gamers feel the same way (excluding a few whiny Halo fans). However, there is one serious flaw in the game, and it is ranking system.
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According to sales figures out of Japan, the Nintendo Wii is the fastest console to reach 5 million units since the Super Nintendo in the early 1990s.
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The color white is supposed to make rooms look larger, black is supposed to make them look smaller but I’m not sure what the effect on console size is.  Nintendo has always made the Wii in white but may be offering additional colors in the future, the Xbox 360 is white save for the Halo 3 edition and now here comes Sony offering its white PS3 to the US, UK and Europe.
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Some of you may remember that back in December and especially during the holidays, Xbox live experienced hiccups in service.  Problems ranged from users not being able to sign on to getting kicked off or just plain not working.  Microsoft issued an apology and said users would be compensated in some way.
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If you thought the Nintendo Wii’s success was somehow a fluke and would only be short lived, think again. According to one analyst, we’ve only just seen the beginning of Nintendo’s reign at the top.
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Video games, and games consoles come under fire from all and sundry these days. From being blamed for school shootings, and the ills of society, they take a lot of blame. And now, it has got even worse, with a British columnist describing them as “crack for kids”.
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The newer, cooler running processors installed in the new Xbox 360s promised to bring about an end to the dreaded Red Ring of Death. If that is true, then why is one insider saying that the Xbox 360s failure rate is still hovering around 10%?
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