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PS3 Sale Price

Searching for a PS3 on sale can be a daunting task. If you do see them on sale it’s not much off the regular price. It can be discouraging if you’re trying to save a few bucks.

I know how you feel! The justifcation for the purchase may have been difficult in the beginning but there was plenty of it in the end. I figured I could sell all my old PS2 games and console and start building a PS3 fund. I’ve even thought about my old jeans in the closet, the ones with holes in them and seem all fashionable and seeing what I could sell them for on eBay. I’ve even gone through my garage looking for tools that I don’t use to sell them online. We even put our stuff in a neighborhood sale to come up with the funds to buy a PS3. It was hard to justify the time spent after I counted my till and it came up to just over $50. As an aside, garage sales are not the way to go! eBay is a much better way to go as you’ll net more profits.

I’ve been there before. With all the available accessories, games and hi-tech features you really get more bang for your buck with the PS3. The fact that it is Blu-Ray is a huge selling point for me. Not only are all the games HD but now my movies are too. That’s a hard-sell to the wife! Once we went to HD with DirecTV, including the DVR, my wife was convinced and we hardly watch anything that is not in HD. In the end it wasn’t that difficult to get her on my side for the PS3 purchase except when it came to the price.

I’ve been around the block on this concept and if I have not been able to find a better deal on a game system that also plays Blu-Ray than the PS3. Even when it’s not on sale! You can buy a Blu-Ray DVD player for your movies but it will not play PS3 games. Unfortunately for Microsoft, HD-DVD was not the chosen format going forward and this will ultimately hurt their sales. For me it was all about the hunt and getting the PS3 at a true sale price.

I searched on eBay and some other traditional auction sites and found that there really aren’t any ps3 sale prices out there. The value may be there but the overall cost is higher because of all the stuff they include. The goal here is to spend as little money as possible, not more.

Ultimately, I had to think outside the box. I began looking into unique bid auction sites. There are a few decent ones out there but the one that stands out to me is www.auctions4acause.com. They have much more selection among everyday items than most of the other sites including the PS3. The majority of the other sites like it zero in on really expensive things like cars, land and motorcycles. You can pretty it up all you want but I just want the PS3!

I knew I had a winner when I found that site. Two thumbs up as they had the exact item I wanted and I could get it for cheap. I cruised on over to their site an account. I rung up 3 bids and knew I had the lowest and unique bid. Wouldn’t you know it, I didn’t win the first time. It was another couple of days before another one came up for auction. I placed 3 more bids on it and crossed my fingers and waited. Bingo! I won this time. 7 days later I was playing Hot Shots Golf on my new PS3. All I had spent on it was $59.64. Pretty darn good, huh?

It can take a few minutes of reading to truly grasp the concept of the lowest unique bid auction style. After you grasp the idea you could become addicted. Since that time that I won the PS3 I’ve bid on and won 3 other items including an iPod Nano (they have the best ipod prices) and $400 gas card. I’m getting about 4 to 1 on my money so far with $1,200 in items for less than $360 in bidding.

I wouldn’t suggest the big box stores to find the best prices. You can surely get a great deal when you go register at Auctions4aCause.

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If you are a fan of both Xbox and the Halo series, than an Xbox 360 Halo Edition console is the perfect choice for you. This console delivers everything that Xbox consoles promise, including some of the top gaming experiences in the industry. The packaging of this particular edition is really cool with nice colors and plenty of accessories included. It is the perfect system for both the hard core gamers and the beginners on your list.

History of the Xbox 360

Before the Xbox 360 Halo Edition made its entrance into the marketplace, the regular Xbox 360 was born. This was the first baby to come along in the new series of gaming consoles; a full year ahead of PlayStation 3 and the Wii. Earlier versions of the Xbox console had plenty of great benefits, but unfortunately, reliability was not one of them. Microsoft has worked hard to get the bugs out of this system and now offers a three-year warranty that handles most of the technical difficulties that you might encounter.

Now this gaming system is available in the Xbox 360 Halo Edition, which recognizes one of the most popular video games in the history of this home entertainment giant. The Halo games are a three-part series, in which you battle an army of aliens that are bent on destroying mankind. The first Halo game, titled Halo: Combat Evolved was released in 2001, and enjoyed huge popularity that has carried it through the release of the third game in the trilogy last year. One of the attractions of the later releases of this game is that multiple players can participate at one time, making it a popular choice with teens who like to get together with friends on the weekends for mass Halo play sessions.

The Xbox 360 Halo Edition Package

When you purchase the Xbox 360 Halo Edition package, you will be receiving quite a bit of gaming possibilities for your money. The console is the main piece of the package, but it also includes a wireless controller for ultimate gaming convenience and a headset. The entire set comes in a “Spartan Green and Gold” theme to delight the Halo fans in your group. The package also includes a membership to Xbox Live, which allows your gamer access to online chats with friends and live gaming session when the console is hooked up to the wireless network adapter.

If you have Halo fans in your midst, perhaps the Xbox 360 Halo Edition gaming console is the perfect gift idea.

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One of the main benefits of the Xbox 360 for gamers is the inclusion of an internal hard drive in most models (the basic model only includes a very limited amount of hard drive space). This allows gamers to store movies, music, and other types of media and documents on their Xbox 360, giving it a functionality almost like a personal computer, which generally costs a lot more than an Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 hard drive allows gamers to store their most important media on their Xbox without having to carry around a USB drive or external hard drive, although these are also possibilities.

Internal Hard Drive

Many people use their Xbox 360 hard drives (20 Gb for the Premium and 120 Gb for the Elite models) to store music, movies, and other media that they don’t want to lose. In fact, many gamers have found out that they can enjoy their very own selection of music while playing their favorite games. By having a comprehensive music player and mixer included on the Xbox 360, gamers can play their own music in the background on the Xbox 360 while playing games, negating the need for an external music player to listen to their own music while playing. This is made possible by including a hard drive in the Xbox 360, something consoles without hard drives cannot claim to support.

However, gamers have other possibilities for storing media via their Xbox 360. Two of these more portable options include external Xbox 360 hard drives and USB drives. External hard drives support much greater capacity (and portability) with hard drives going up to 500 Gb and more. Once you’re done transferring files to and from your Xbox 360, you can simply unplug your external hard drive from your console and take it with you. Another alternative for the Xbox 360 hard drive is a USB drive. This utilizes flash memory which is more stable than a traditional hard drive and uses less power. However, the capacity of USB drives is much lower than that of traditional hard drives, at least until further advancements are made (it should also be stated that flash memory has only become mainstream in the past year or so while traditional hard drives have been used for decades).

To store all of your media on your Xbox 360, you can use the internal Xbox 360 hard drive, or you can use your own USB drive or external hard drive. The internal hard drive is included in the Premium and Elite Xbox 360 models, but you’ll need to supply your own portable memory if you want to use them. To double your Xbox 360 as a storage device, decide which Xbox 360 hard drive is right for you.

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