People always seem to forget that the PS2 beat the XBox to market by more than a year. Of course it's graphics are worse than the Xbox. Compare any top-of-the-line PC from today to one from a year ago, and it will be the same story. I remember when the PS2 came out, I was amazed by the graphics. Then a year later, the Xbox came out. And while the graphics were better than the PS2's, they didn't have the same "amazing" quality that the PS2 did initially.

While I agree that the better Xbox graphics are a good reason to buy the Xbox over the PS2 now, talking about them as "lagging" is incorrect. They were actually an industry leader, and the Xbox was playing catchup from the get-go, and had to have better graphics due to its later release date and limited game selection (initially), or it would have flopped.

That being said. I don't own a console. h: That's what I have a PC for, which owns any console in terms of graphics/sound/# of games/playability, etc.