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If you are really a game geek then you definitely need to check this out. Sony has released Xperia play. It is a side slider. And it has buttons similar to Sony’s play station. It is based on Android operating system v 2.3(Gingerbread). Talking about its CPU it has 1GHz scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm snapdragon. The phone is available through AT&T and XPERIA play 4G. It has a capacitive touch screen and 16 million colours. It has excellent sound quality with 3.5 mm jack. In addition, the phone has 512 MB Ram and storage could be upgraded up to 32 GB. It also has a GPRS and EDGE. It is wi-fi enabled and also used as wi-fi hotspot. Its browser can read WAP, xHTML and HTML.

Talking about its gaming features it has high quality gaming graphics with motion sensing and gesture gaming. You can download the games as it has a dedicated game store for this purpose and it is called Plays Station pocket app. Games such as Bruce Lee Dragon warrior, FIFA 2010, SIMS 3, Assassins Creed, Spiderman and a lot more had been already introduced for it. Other features are its active integration, digital compass, Google search, maps and predictive text input. It has a standard battery life.

After the success stories of SONY’s handheld gaming console PSP, PS vita will act as the successor for PSP. According to its specs it looks like it is almost equally powerful as a PS3. According to SONY the number of features which are added in it will made it not only a next generation handheld but next generation gaming. Let’s take a closer look at this bold new innovative console.

PS vita is powered by ARM CORTEX A9 core processor CPU. Unlike PSP’s XMB its menu is replaced by Live Area. It has a 5 inches OLED screen with 16:9 ratio and approximately 16 million colours. Now let’s see how it’s going to bring revolutionary gaming. It has a front touch screen and with it a rear sensitive touch panel too. With the rear touch pad you can use your fingers to control the gaming motion and can perform various actions such as scratch, expand, shrink, etc. This would really be handy in various games. It would be loaded with built in microphone and speakers too. It also has sensors and six-axis motion sensing plus 3-axis electronic compass. Also there is good news for the people who were fed up due to regional restrictions in the PSP as VITA will be region free.

Kinect is a revolution in gaming devices with which you can play the games without even touching the remote buttons. Sounds Crazy!!! But how it’s going to work? You will be using your whole body to play the games with Kinect. It will track your body movements and your movements will result inside the game. That’s really cool. And let us learn more about its technical stuff.

Kinect can sense up to six players including two live players playing the game. It tracks the player’s various joints and thus movements of the players give result inside the game. Kinect can only be used with X-BOX360. Also besides using it in game it has various other features. You can use it for X-BOX live party chat for in-game gaming voices and it has camera with two resolutions. It has a colour depth sensor and microphone that can distinguish voices and is used in gaming too. It has 57 degrees of horizontal view and 43 degrees of vertical view. Also it is enabled with speech recognition in multiple languages. Till now there are many game titles developed for Kinect like kung fu panda 2, dance masters, wipe out in zone and many more. With all these spectacular features there is one more reason to buy it that is it always makes your body active while you play.