Don't know if I'm late to the party, OP, but here's my suggestion:
Get all the consoles.
So yeah, buy the 360 =D I have not read everything in this thread, but aside for playing online, you can pretty much do anything online without paying the live fee. And there are lots of games you can enjoy, contrary to the popular belief. Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia, the original Dead Rising (Though Capcom released a spin-off with the same story in the Wii), Fable 2 and 3, The Last Remnant (though there's a PC version), Viva Piñata, Deadly Premonition! (But the Director's cut is coming to PS3), Dead or Alive 4. Crackdown (let's ignore the second one xD), an incredible amount of shoot 'em up courtesy of Cave, the Forza's, and a solid XBL Arcade games list.