DarkKnight wrote:I pity the fools that don't have backward compatibility.
Seriously though, a free Blu-ray player, a 60GB HDD, wireless PS2-style controllers, sexy black - not pukish i-pod rip off white, a massive library of playable games even before launch, the most popular RPG titles and great HD graphics.
What's not to love?
And as far as the only place X-box zealots can retreat to atm, "ZOMG IT'S $XXX!", that certainly didn't stop the X-box from getting people like your self to fork out the extra money, did it? Mind you, X-box fanboys seem to have a selective memory.
Sell your sibling for medical experiments if you're low on cash.
Well I would buy the PS3 if the games were just sequels of their last gen. I hated the MGS series because no matter which way you look at it, in the end you were looking at a guy who got raped by Soviet Union troops in every game, always switches from 3rd to 1st person and tried to hide himself in boxes (even in the jungle!). As for Blu-ray, are you really going to have 25GB of data at a single moment and each save at around 1GB? The Online service is pretty lame as the connection will be bad, tehre will be alot of gateways etc.
Besides, Xbox 360 has Halo 3, Halo Wars, APB, Huxley, Bioshock, GTA IV (with extra content), Forza 2, UT 3 and many more.
A CNN reporter, while interviewing a Marine Sniper, asked. "What do you feel when you shoot a terrorist?"
The Marine shrugged and replied, "Recoil."

Sig by Protocol but I did help.....I gave him the render if that counts as something.