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Article: Video games: video-game virgin alert! Never played video games before? Two new electronic hotties will be battling it out for your attention this holiday season. So dust off the top of your TV and make room for Sony's PS3 and the Nintendo Wii.(HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2006
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The PlayStation 3 ($599) is launching a new, more advanced system with all the bells and whistles: a 60-gig hard drive, wireless high-speed access to the Internet, online network play, a Blu-ray disc player, silky-smooth graphics, and enough processing power to give any geek multiple orgasms. The only problem is that you might need to give up two of your kidneys to get one--unless you love standing in all-night lines that don't end with a velvet rope or a DJ. Also, if your TV still uses rabbit ears, you're out of luck: This party in a box is for HDTV only.
The Nintendo Wii ($250) is taking an entirely different approach than Sony's muscle machine. The graphics ...