Though it may be two and a half years of age,Xbox 360 pro system game console nonetheless delivers the best graphics even though it is 12 months older than its two competitors, Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s Ps3, and it has the largest sport selection. Because of its relative age, you are able to also locate the Xbox 360 at a good price these days. With help for 1080p resolution, you will end up impressed through the unprecedented quantity of realism in video games such as the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Fallout three. In case you are still undecided, the benefits the following should be plenty of to persuade you that the Xbox 360 game console is superior for the Ps3 and Wii.

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The Wii will be the most affordable console on the market today, but it falls short of the visual capabilities and blockbuster sport selection that the Xbox 360 pro game console enjoys. Add to that the fact that you can buy the entry model of the Xbox 360, or arcade version, for approximately the price tag on the Wii, and the only reason that you might want to select the Wii could be for some great titles like Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Resident Evil 4. However, there are many video games not available for that Wii than for it, and so the option relies on your style of video games. The Ps3 resembles the Xbox 360 game console with regards to graphics, even though its sport selection is even worse compared to the Wii’s. The majority of the video games available for that Ps3 can also be found for that Xbox 360, just about the most notable exceptions being Metal Gear Solid 4. Among the primary reasons to get the Ps3 is for its BD push able to play next-generation Blu-ray discs, although that is more inviting for that high definition films than for that video games.

If you wish to obtain the full package, then turn towards the Xbox 360 premium console. You’ll pay $50 more, although you will receive Netflix help, backwards compatibility with most original Xbox games, plus a decent 60 Gb hard disk. Netflix will help you to rent films by where you download them for the hard disk, and you’ll be able to watch them over the course of a couple of days by yourself time. With all the Xbox 360′s DVD playback, audio CD, and Web capabilities, viewers the Xbox 360 game console can be a home theater in one package. With all the largest sport selection out out of all the next gen systems as well as the greatest graphics lacking multi-thousand dollar PCs, the Xbox 360 game console is the greatest value for its price between the Wii and Ps3.

So a few days ago Dolphin 2.0 was released. Dolphin is a Nintendo Wii and GameCube emulator for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and it works quite well. How well? Here’s a video of me playing the Wii version of Resident Evil 4—which, yes, I do own, thank you very much.

Yes, the CG intro plays twice, but I’ve been fighting YouTube since noon today (it’s now 4:15pm as I write this) trying to get the video to process and I’m not about to start all over again.

It runs at a full 30 frames per second, full screen @1920×1080 (even with Fraps in the background), and the only hiccup I’ve experienced is sometimes the audio is maybe half a second out of sync during cutscenes. Maybe that can be fixed in the settings, I don’t know.

And yes, I’m terrible at the game. The point of the video isn’t to illustrate my amazing skills, but rather to show off what the emulator can do. I don’t have a Bluetooth dongle on my PC, so I had to map the Wiimote+Nunchuck controls to my mouse and keyboard. I just need some practice is all, and these controls will work just fine:

• The Nunchuck joystick (actual movement) is mapped to WASD on the keyboard

• Z on the Nunchuck (used for running) is mapped to Left Shift

• C on the Nunchuck (draw knife) is mapped to E

• “Shaking” the Wiimote (reloading, escaping, and quick knife attack) is mapped to R

• – button on the Wiimote (brings up your inventory) is mapped to the Space Bar

• 1 and 2 on the Wiimote (map and options menu) is mapped to 1 and 2 above WASD

• Aiming with the Wiimote is mapped to the mouse, where Left Click is the Wiimote’s A button (shoot, attack, action) and Right Click is the Wiimote’s B button (draw weapon)

I think that’s about it.

My interest in the iPad just went up significantly: For $12.99 you can get Resident Evil 4 [iTunes link], iPad edition? We’re truly living in the future.

We’ve given you the first plot details and pictures on Friday, but now the first trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife (aka Resident Evil 4) is online. It’s pretty cool (well, it shows more of the same), mentioning the movie was filmed with the “James Cameron / Vincent Pace Fusion Camera System”, the “World’s Most Advanced 3D Technology”.

The movie will hit American theaters (both 3D and conventional) on September 10.

Here’s the trailer (good quality, 2:04min.):

We spent two posts covering the announcement of the fourth installment of the Resident Evil movie series last summer, and today we can give you the first five pictures and some plot details. Titled “Resident Evil 4: Afterlife”, the movie is scheduled for release in American theaters (both conventional and 3D) on September 10.

Director Paul W.S. Anderson already helmed the first Resident Evil from 2002, and Milla Jovovich returns as Alice.

Here’s the official plot:

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead leads them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

More pictures:

We’ll post the first trailer as soon as it hits the web (it’s been announced for Saturday).

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The beauty of the Internet is that it demands instant analysis of every single development to come out of Peoria. The Nintendo 3DS—out of Kyoto, which is not Peoria, I’m afraid—was announced overnight, time zone permitting. It will debut at E3 in June, and it will forever change the way you and I… do something. Something video game-related, methinks.

If one thing’s certain, it does mean that 3D is here to stay. I’m sorry. Say what you will about Avatar, but it made quite a bit of scratch. Then CES came around, in January, and every single TV manufacturer held presentation after presentation, laser light show after laser light show, trumpeting their fancy 3D TVs. None of the TVs are compatible with each other, so if you buy Company A’s TV and your neighbor buys Company B’s, y’all can’t get together to watch the World Cup in 3D—the glasses won’t allow it.

The GameCube barely displaced any water—what did it have, those Metroid games, Resident Evil 4, a couple of Mario games? It did well enough, but compared to the PS2 (and Xbox, I guess) the GameCube was sorta a disappointment. Granted, comparing any other video game system to the PS2 is like comparing a light bulb to the sun, but you can only beat what’s put in front of you.

Wii! Yup, Nintendo got tired of the hardware race, so it slapped a Bluetooth sensor bar to white shelled GameCube, called it Wii, then sat back and let the money a-roll in. It completely changed gaming. Now, rather than relying upon the “hardcores” to buy the latest Earthbound, Nintendo could convince Grandma and Grandpa, and your girlfriend, to play Wii Sports till their arms fall off.

You’ll note that it took Sony and Microsoft a few years before they realized, “Hey, this motion control business is quite nifty. Maybe we should get in on it?”

And they have! I have no time for motion control—you can pry my mouse and keyboard from my cold, dead hands~!—but clearly there’s money to be made here. If Sony and Microsoft can’t make money selling Fling Paint, then there’s no money to publish things like God of War and Fable.

So this 3DS thing (here’s the full English press release)… Nintendo describes it as letting you play games “with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses.” As someone who wears glasses—I’m blind as a bat, and nowhere near as cuddly—, let me be the nine millionth to say “Obrigado!” The 3D TVs at CES were largely pants, but I did get to play Battlefield: Bad Company 2 in 3D (thanks to some sort of Nvidia trickery) a few weeks ago. It didn’t blow my mind or anything, but if given the option, provided it’s affordable—I’m not buying a $1,000 monitor and glasses and a new video card!—then why not? Nothing wrong, per se, with a little added depth as I try to left-click over a Bad Guy’s face.

The 3DS, which should come out around this time next year, will be backwards compatible with your current DS library. My DS library is quite small (Chrono Trigger and those Final Fantasy remakes), so I could give a toss about backwards compatibility, but I’m sure there’s those of you who have more than a few games, games that you wouldn’t want to “lose” when upgrading to the 3DS.

Upgrading may not even be the right word, since the 3DS is totally new hardware. It’s not like going from the DS Lite to the DSi, or from the DSi to the DSi XL.

The point is, this is Nintendo saying, “Hi guys! Remember how we made motion control cool, bringing it to the masses? We’re going to do the same thing with 3D now. Kthxbye!”

And now we wait for Sony to announce a 3D PSP of some sort…