i encourage people to buy ps3 because i think its safe to say ps3 is much better and people just agree with me, even if they have a 360. but if your a huge halo fan then of course i dont encourage to buy a ps3.

No, but I influence everyone I know to not buy one.

That should offset most of the posts in this thread.

Take that Squilliam.

Except some of us run around convincing people not to buy PS3s and how much better their money would be spent on cheaper Wiis and 360s.

easy... I do it because that makes more friends on the live to play with.... i even use it to audio chat with france... cheaper than the phone and really good to move around the house hands free...
but i did recommend PS3s or Wiis to some of my friends because it suited better their needs...

I can only say one thing in response to this post, and that is;

"kay."

what is this willam shatner wannabe talking about ? yikes !
the exact same could be said about the wii or the ps3 !
ps. i hope the price cut realy helps the sales for the 360 , cuz if not this might be the begining of the end 4 the 360
low sales + price cuts + low sales after price cuts = doom
just look at the dreamcast

I just let people make they're own decisions and try not to push what I like on them. It actually bothers me when people blatantly put down another system when someone is buying one and they are clearly misinformed

 This.

Exactly.

When I switched from PC to console in January of 08, I figured I'd just buy what the most people I knew had. Well, that ended up being the Wii, and I'm NOT buying one of those. But other than that, most people had the 360. Since then, I've encouraged my brother and another friend of mine to buy the 360. I have several more friends that are seriously considering it now that the price drop is here.

Quite frankly, the most annoying thing for me about buying a console so far has been the "console war". With PC gaming it was always the "death of PC gaming" stories that annoyed me. Now the console war annoys me, and I totally forgot how stupid people can be about it. It almost ruins the thrill for me to the point where I've stopped coming to sites like this. (Nothing against the site. I think the stories and articles are great, but the forums contain an unbelievable amount of completely uneducated armchair analysis and just plain retardation.)