And thus, Sega's marketing practice has been resurrected h: Unfortunately, that whole multi-add-on and multi-sku thing totally messed up their userbase. How many Sega CD systems ended up being released alone? I remember like 4, and that's excluding 32X and all that other junk...

Dunno. I don't know if the XBox360 will have the staying power needed to keep up with the PS3. Ever pay attention to the evolution of XBox graphics? Go compare Mechwarrior to Mechwarrior2. There's a noticable improvement, but nothing outrageous. Halo 2 really improved on Halo, but that's cause of their really crafty use of variable normal and bump mapping to switch between gameplay and cinematic.

[rant] The Xbox and Xbox 360 scaler chips for video SUCK. Ever notice the motion blur in Gears of War on a 720p display? It's got a two-pronged use: first, it looks cinematic, secondly it hides the failure of the crappy scaling chip. If you rotate the screen at just the right speed, you can see that the game isn't rendering in 720p, but is actually scaling up from some interlaced resolution. They did the same crap on the Xbox1 (read: Halo 2 and 90% of the 480p compatable games) with only very few games doing real 480p (team Ninja games and Timesplitters Future Perfect, for example) [/rant]

Now go compare some first gen release PS2 titles with the swan songs of the system. Metal Gear Solid 3, Okami, God of War 2 are graphically fantastic, and that was made on a system with only 4MB of embedded video ram. If current release titles look as good as they do now, I'm really, really excited about the future of the PS3.

That being said, the only selling points of a Xbox 360 to me are the price, Blue Dragon, and Halo 3. Otherwise, I'm not that interested... And I doubt I'll get a 360 if the price is equal to a PS3.