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Frankly, I'm bothered by the first post. It misses a lot of marks, like the aspects of reliability, user-friendliness and lacks on design. Design: sorry, but there are trends in the living room and in life. Consoles, despite what gamers want to believe, are still considered like kids or loosers toys. Only Nintendo tried to change that, as you can now use your DS everywhere without shame, and the Wii is poised to do the same. In your living room, women won't like your big toy, that's why most HT hardware now tries to be as small or as thin as possible. HDTV is taking off because of that, not because of HD itself (HD media are leaning it hard). That's even more true in Japan, where space is scarce. In 2002, in Japan, I wondered why all those crappy LCD TV were being sold like mad, to later understand why. None of the PS3 nor the XB360 tried to follow this trend. Reliability: I'm actually glad that this comes back biting Sony in the a$$. Because with so many PS2 sold, don't worry most PS2 owners know how short the PS2 lifetime can be. And I bet there are far less people wanting to risk $600 to have it die on them in 2 years time. The XB360 has the same problem, only worse, but they're lucky it appeared only with the XB360, so most people don't know yet how terrible it is reliability wise. I know I could never buy such an unreliable console even if I wanted a game on it badly. In Japan, they just resell them, but I like to keep my games. User-friendliness: talking of the controller is just retarded. You'll take whatever controller they give you, if you like the game and are a gamer. For "non-gamers" though, all this nonsense of vibrations or tilt is nonsense. What they see is very complicated pads where you need 3 or 4 hands to move everything, scaring them away. It's the same for the games. Heavenly Sword is wow, like a film could wow them, but if you want a casual to play it, he will be scared right away, meaning he would never buy the console to play that. Of course, these 3 points don't make either XB360 or PS3 stand out, but they are still important. I remember, when I got back in gaming with the GCN, even I was wondering how I could ever use the controller. If I wasn't a gamer before, I would have given up.