Well it seems that for the year 2006 a winner finally emerges among the game consoles available. During the past year we have all been participants in the battle among the consoles, all watching and waiting which will emerge the victor. So now we know. Based on the initial sales reports for 2006 it is the Xbox 360 that takes the first place. Even with the clamor and buzz during the latter part of this year regarding the Nintendo Wii and PS3, it still the Xbox 360 was able to hold its own!
The race has been on for quite some time regarding the top three gaming consoles namely Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s PS3. Among them, the Xbox 360 has been the earliest to be released and the two latter consoles have been launched just recently. Well, competition is really tough as evidenced by the sales reports published just recently. This is probably one of the reasons why Microsoft thought up to upgrade their Xbox 360’s CPU. From 90 nm processors, they will switch to 65 nm processors. This is kind of a big switch because the result will be the less noisy, less hot and cheaper by counts, than the present Xbox.
Since the Wii took a bloody nose with remote controllers flying all over the place, Xbox probably thought it would be a good idea and a good time to make the company look good.
Microsoft has extended the warranty of all Xbox 360 consoles from 90 days to a full year in the United States and Canada. But this offer is only valid for Xbox consoles less than 1 year old.
Game consoles are now also a target of thievery. Just recently, a truck carrying a $2M worth or Xbox360 game consoles was hijacked and the goods stolen. The incident happened Monday morning in Staffordshire, UK and the trucking company concerned is the Hellman Worldwide Logistics.
In this case, the driver was deceived by the thieves with what seems to be one of the oldest tricks in the book. Told by the thieves that there was something caught beneath his wheels, the driver came out of the truck and wham! Got beaten up and left on the road, and then away went the consoles. Luckily for the driver though because he only suffered minor injuries.
