We are now in the midst of another installment in what seems to be a never-ending cycle of console wars, one in which Sony0s Playstation 3 is pitted against Microsoft0s Xbox 360 (the Nintendo Wii is not officially part of the battle, as Nintendo themselves has stated they do not consider their console to be a 0net-gen0 machine).
In the past, consumers would often base their purchase of a new video game system on what exclusive games were available for each respective system. For instance, if you wanted to play a Final Fantasy game in the late nineties, you needed to buy an original Playstation. Those games simply weren0t available on any other home console. In a larger sense, it seemed as if a consoles personality was defined partly by what exclusive games it offered.
In the current generation, though, it seems as if we [...]
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It is no secret that toys have been changing in the last ten years. With all of the technological advances made by toy makers and manufacturers, the word 0toy0 means something completely different than it did to the past generations. Parents will remember when toys meant things like dolls, tea sets, non battery operated cars and trucks, train sets and Lego blocks. Their children however, will remember toys like Nintendo, X Box, Guitar Hero, Robot toys and remote controlled cars, trucks and planes.
Granted, there were some technological toys on the market ten years ago, but they were nowhere near the toys of today! If the toy making trends are to continue on as they have been, I am sure that the next ten years will find us buying robots for our children that have the ability to convert into a few different types of toys.
Ten years ago, the top few [...]
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