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Video games have come a long way since Atari. I went over to my neighbors house a few days ago and sitting there, underneath a large HDTV was the holy of all hollies, the PlayStation3. Now, I like the XBOX360, it is an amazing machine, but I have been a PlayStation fan since the first CD console came out. When these new 3rd generation machines hit the market they were so expensive my mind just shut down and blanked them out of reality. I believe that this was in the hope that it would not take long for this new technology to come down in price.

When they first came out the PlayStation3 was $599 for the ultimate package with eighty gig hard drive, Blue Ray capability, and a wireless controller that is motion sensitive. The XBOX360 elite package came with a hundred and twenty gig hard drive, free three month XBOX live subscription, controller, headset, and two video games for $499. Since then, both companies, have only come down in price once. Microsoft has dropped their price by $50 dollars. Sony has gone down by $100. This leaves their prices at $499 for the PlayStation3 and $449 for the XBOX360. These are not the price cuts that I was hoping for a year and a half later. I guess I will have to wait until Christmas to buy one which is when the next price drop will probably take place.