Originally Posted by
tomaitheous
I hate M$ in general and really didn't give a crap for the original XBOX. Actually mostly "non gamer" crowds bought it because of all the advert. That made me like it even less. The original XBOX was just a PC in an ugly box with M$ trying fool everybody into thinking otherwise. Why would I want to buy another (and crippled) PC? As far as I'm concerned M$=Sony. They practice the same dirty mentally. That said, the 360 was a complete turn around(wouldn't that be 180?) from the XBOX. Such a sexy looking gaming machine.
I haven't been keeping up as of late, but what was really lame about the PS3 is that it came out a year later than the 360, was supposed to be more powerful, it cost more (and still does), and yet for the titles on both systems the PS3 versions were cutting corners or having problems (frame rate related, not as detailed textures, etc). There are some cool things about the PS3 like you can install linux and it plays Blu-Ray movies. But neither of those things interests me. I have a PC already and I would buy a dedicated Blu-Ray player instead of putting the wear on the PS3 unit (remember the problem with the PS2 and people playing DVD movies on it?).
As far as networking does, $50 a year to have M$ maintain a network gaming service isn't wallet buster. I spend $200 a month in gas, $4 a month is barely a drip in the bucket. Maybe if someone didn't have a job, then I could see argument about free networking service. The funny thing about free? You're still paying for it ;)
Sans a few exclusives, owning either system will net you ports of the same game. That means in the end we win... and we also lose.