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I'm always unlucky with the electronic gadgets I buy. For eg., my laptop. I do not want to speak more about my Laptop but when ever if some one comes to me for recommendations on any electronic gadgets, I would really put my effort in giving them good options. But in my case, I will buy something, all in a hurry not even spending half the efforts that i put for others. I'm not going to find reasons for that.

It all started this way, you guys know that I'm a gamin' freak and I'm absolutely proud to be so. But being a so called gamin' freak I'm not able to find a good gaming console to quench my game thirst. So i jumped in search of a gaming console for me.

I started my journey with Sony's Play Station 2, almost 10 year old, Big Daddy of new Era gaming consoles. But at my first look itself i dropped my plan of buying PS2. The reason is obvious, in this technically advancing world PS2 find its place only in few gaming parlours in India. But it is the only console in the world having countless number of game titles for it. I think that's why it is still there in the market. More over it is one of the cheapest gaming consoles in the market. The only thing which it seems to be lagging is online gaming.

This time I kept my eye on the Microsoft's gaming console XBoX. This is easily one of the coolest gaming consoles that I've ever seen, running with IBM's processor and powered with windows Live which has been baptized by them as XBoX Live. Of course as i said PS2 lags the feature of online gaming which is the key feature in XBoX. The new successor of the XBoX family is XBoX 360. More over the so called "Available only in XBoX" games created some notable amount of momentum in XBoX sales.

So i started collecting details on the latest XBoX consoles. As far as i know there are two range of XBoX consoles available in the market one is normal and the other is Elite. I don't know why Microsoft is following this stupid strategy on Product mix like Vista Basic, Home premium blah blah blah... But why i didn't go for buying XBoX is, that the cost. So XBoX is also dropped.

In this time, i heard announcements on Sony's PlayStation 3, which is expected to be a great break through for Sony in this console war. But PS3 failed to do the job it is expected to do. Reasons are heavy pricing and heat generation in the console. But I instead admired the design and technology the PS3 uses like Blu-Ray, Cell processor and NVIDIA reality synthesizer which shells out 1080p HD quality video output. In my point of view most of the games for PS3 are not utilizing the hardware capabilities of PS3. So any way PS3 is out of my vision.

So i kept on searching for the console of my heart. This time its from Japanese gaming giant Nintendo. It was actually Sandy(SanthanaLakshmanan) who intimated me about Nintendo's new gaming console Wii. With its innovative game pad it started hitting home runs in the console battle. But the only void for Wii at that time was the unavailability of games. It is reasonably priced and clear winner for a long time, even now Wii is the largest selling console. I was all set to buy Wii. But one thing striked in my mind, that is I need a TV to play games. For buying the console itself, I need to attend Round table conferences with my Mom and Dad. In this situation where would i go for TV. So i dropped the plan of buying Gaming Consoles playable in TV and I shifted my opinion to Portable consoles.

Finally I planned to buy a PlayStationPortable(PSP). But my ultimate requirement is that I wanted to play pirated games in that(Who wants to shell a 1000 bucks for each game). But this time i didn't do any research, just like that i bought a PSP 3004 for Rs.9490. This is how now I own a gaming console. So soon I'll be sharing my experiences with my PSP and other things...