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Xbox 360 Gets Best Console Award at E3

  • 27-07-2006 01:08PM
    #1
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭


    Microsoft's console beat Nintendo and Sony to the prize
    Microsoft's Xbox 360 has been voted the best games console by technology fans.

    It fought off competition from Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) and Nintendo's DS Lite to scoop the prize.

    Five thousand readers of gadget magazine T3 nominated their favourite appliances for the publication's first reader's awards.

    Other winners included the iPod 30GB for best MP3 player and the Sony Ericsson W810i for the most sought-after mobile phone.

    Jason Jenkins, deputy editor of T3, said: "The poll is interesting because some of the trends where we have been thinking, 'is this really happening in the real world?', seem to be happening.

    "For example, the fact that people are increasingly getting rid of their iPods and going for phones to listen to music on the move is something we have been writing about for months, but it's interesting to find out that people are actually doing it."

    Sales barometer

    There were 20 categories in the awards, which readers voted for through the T3 website, ranging from best "boy's toy" to most favoured PDA.


    T3 WINNERS
    Best MP3: Apple iPod 30GB
    Best Mobile: Sony Ericsson W810i
    Best HD Device: Sky HD
    Best Portable Video: Archos AV500
    Best Console: Microsoft Xbox 360
    Best PDA: Blackberry 8700G
    Best Laptop: Apple MacBook Pro
    Best Boy's Toy: Zero Gravity Wall Climber
    Best Sat Nav: TomTom Go 910

    The laptop prize went to Apple for its MacBook Pro, chosen for the way it "combined both style and performance".

    Best satellite navigation gadget went to the TomTom Go 910, for its "touch screen display and clear directions".

    Mr Jenkins added that the awards would prove to be an "excellent barometer" for the next big-sellers in the high street.

    He said: "Our readers are primarily early adopters of gadgets, and we have found that in the past that whatever they go big on, the mass market adopts pretty soon afterwards."

    At the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, MP3 devices that play both music and video, digital entertainment hubs, consoles and new TV displays were predicted to lead the surge in sales in the proceeding 12 months.




    Hmm, my money is on Nintendo for the Wii next year....

    Me hopes!


Comments

  • #2
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    That would be T3, not E3.


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