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For boys of all ages— and increasing numbers of women— the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) provides a peek at the latest videogames and the new machines that will run them. Here’’s a look at what’’s coming later this year and beyond. Sony. The videogame leader announced that its long-awaited PlayStation 3 console will hit the U.S. market Nov. 17 in two flavors: a $499 model with a 20-gigabyte hard drive, and a $599 deluxe version that ships with an 80-gigabyte hard drive, built-in Wi-Fi and a few other bells and whistles. How does Sony expect to succeed in the face of the already-released Xbox 360 ($399 with a 20-gigabyte hard drive, $299 without) and Nintendo’’s upcoming Wii (not yet priced, but expected to cost less than $250) The answer lies in Blu-Ray, the high-definition DVD format that launches next month and is backed by five of the six major movie studios. Both PS3 versions include a Blu-Ray drive, while its rivals don’’t — and since the cheapest Blu-Ray player will initially cost $999, Sony hopes that you’’ll think of PS3 as an inexpensive Blu-Ray machine and home entertainment center, rather than a costly videogame machine. Still, games are key, and Sony showed some early standouts. Heavenly Sword looks like a Wu Xia epic (think "House of Flying Daggers"). Microsoft. Bill Gates made his first appearance at E3 to tout the Xbox 360 . Microsoft put on its best show yet. Epic’’s Gears of War replaces the run-and-gun style of most shooters with a more deliberate "stop-and-pop" approach, where players run from cover to cover. Capcom’’s Lost Planet transports gamers to a world of giant robot suits and snow-swept cityscapes. Microsoft also showed an add-on drive for Xbox 360 that plays movies on HD-DVD (the rival format to Blu-Ray). Nintendo. Unlike Sony and Microsoft, whose machines are evaluated primarily on the quality of their graphics, Nintendo has focused on the interface rather than image quality. The forthcoming Wii console (pronounced "we"; price and date not yet determined) uses a controller that follows your movements. In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, you aim weapons by literally pointing at the bad guyson the screen. But the truerevelation was Super Mario Universe, in which you wiggle the controller back and forth to launch Mario from planet to planet and to trigger attacks against his enemies. Nintendo is different from Sony and Microsoft in that________.