you sir officially do not deserve to call yourself a gamer. The Amiga is a classic. Thats like saying Pong or two man tennis doesnt matter in this day and age.

And you just lost the right to call yourself literate.

I said that its an amiga game with no relevance. Not that the amiga isn't worthwhile. See the difference?

StarDust was one of the Amiga's greatest games. So calling StarDust irrelevent is like calling then Amiga irrelevant.

I'll give you a bit of advice; Never take a philosophy of logic class in community college.

But lets see if you disagree with this statement. Battle Arena Toshiden is an absoloutly shitty PSX game and completely irrelavent today, despite the fact that it recieved high scores when it came out.

I have to pitch in and say that as a long-time X360 and PS3 owner... I've downloaded way more games from PSN than I ever have from XBL. Geometry Wars rocks, and I scored Braid (although I'm not sure it was worth the $$... I regret buying it much like I regret buying Elefunk. Both decent... neither worth the fee.)... beyond that I pretty much have to pitch in with the PSN fans.

I even buy cross-platform games on the PS3... but of course I have a 320GB HDD and I prefer the PS3 controller, so that's sorta an unfair comparison.

PSN does have better content available digitally than XBL does (this is nothing more than my opinion, however)... and it is ironic that MS talks up how they want to go for digital content in a big way... yet PSN is taking the first steps to having substantial titles (meaning retail-scale) available. The fact that PSN has large titles, like Warhawk, GT5:P, Siren, and now Burnout Paradise available is a sincere step toward serious digital distribution that XBLA has not matched, in any form. There are more on the horizon as well (SOCOM: Confrontation, Ratchet&Clank:QfB, etc...). I don't see any such major titles coming down the XBLA road.

Why not? Where is the MS talk about "future digital distribution" bearing fruit, relative to Sony's work with PSN?

There have been some good titles on XBLA, just like PSN... but I don't see anything major there at this time -- just hot air from the MS execs. This isn't really something that can just be denied. PSN is definately improving in areas XBLA hasn't even touched upon (yet, despite all the talk).

Lets see if you understand this one

Pong is to StarDust as Wolf 3D is to Half-Life.

It all boils back down to the issue of HDD space, something that is user scalable on the PS3, but not on the Xbox.

The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of all 360s in circulation (those that even have a HDD) are 20GB drives, woefully inadequate for heavy digital distribution purchases beyond "arcade" sized games.

And I do make the distinction of word purchase, as overall storage space is slightly less of an issue if most content on a drive is time sensitive data/files that will be deleted shortly after the initial use.

But digital distro of DVD sized games simply isn't a genuinely viable alternative option for most 360 owners. The lack of original Xbox games on XBL following their introduction to the service only supports this notion. Maybe they're just not selling well (not surprising, considering the games can be bought for less, on DVD), but is anyone arguing that this once heralded addition to XBL is something that has definitely been moved to a back burner?

Marketing full sized games only to 120GB HDD owners seems like a poor strategy considering that they comprise a minority percentage of the overall 360 market.

It's ultimately an issue of consumer choice. Which platform offers the consumer the choices he or she wants most. Most people like hard media, whether it be for movies or games. When the issue of drive space becomes moot, digital distro for games becomes a legitimate alternative.

Um, I think that Microsoft would jump at the chance to push more people to buy their overpriced HDDs.  Come on Microsoft, sell me a 250 GB HDD for $300 please.

Exactly.

That's the crux of their entire pricing scheme.

Drive space was the key difference between the $299 Core and the $399 Premium (wireless controller/game save advantage later deleted)

It was also the key difference between the $349 Pro and the $449 Elite (HDMI port advantage later deleted).

But it will be extremely difficult to convince all but a handful percentage of consumers that a HDD, regardless of capacity should be priced in the same range as the console itself.