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News Pop! U.S. TG '06

By Eli Green
November 23, 2006 - 23:45

Welcome to this, the American Thanksgiving edition of News Pop!. This is going to be a very interesting edition for us, the reason being, we have nothing to report. We have Thanksgiving, football and people who like to take time off to thank for today's lack of news. This will also be the last edition of News Pop! for the week, and since we don't want to leave you with absolutely nothing, we're going to do a quick recap of some of this weeks happenings.

This week saw the introduction of two new consoles into the consumer market. Though, officially, the Playstation 3 was launched last week, since it was a Friday we're already considering as having been this week. The system launched with a lot of press and a lot of hype, but nowhere near the number of units necessary to fill the demand. The other console released this week, Sunday, was Nintendo's Wii. The small and slim console sold out the same morning it released, not due to shortages like the Playstation 3 however, simply due to demand. Both systems have had their share of good and bad reviews, the good mostly pertaining to games and the bad mostly pertaining to hardware glitches and bugs which have appeared in some units of both consoles, which, while annoying to any consumer, can be expected with new system launches.

That was clearly the biggest piece of news from this week. Thanks to the system launches, there were many new games released, though there were also many titles released for other systems too, some highly anticipated, most not. Have a good weekend everyone, and for you Americans out there, a good long weekend.

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