Yes. I take everything which the media reports with grain of salt.

No country has the right to decide by himself to invade the authority of another country, if one does, I call it: declare war. Just because the government of another country does not please me, I can not send my army - Full Stop. Did Saddam send any tanks, missiles etc. to the US? Did G.W. Bush send Missiles to Iraq?

BUT STOP!!! This is Off Topic...

So the conclusion is: XBOX is selling much better in the US, because it is cheaper... It is not about Value, it is about Price...

This seams to be a cultural difference at least between Germans and US Americans.

Ummmm you need a history lesson - the USA gave 13 BILLION DOLLARS TO rebuild germany after world war 2 - it's called the marshall plan - Germany has not paid back 1 cent of that debt.  So yes, you do owe americans something.

The UN was NOT opposed to the iraq war - once again you don't know history.  None of the 5 permanent security council members vetoed the resoloution.

The german media is just as bias as any other country - of course you are still bitter that your prescious fatherland was destroyed by the allies. 

You do know that Japanese consumers reserve the right to deny outside competition if they have a brand in their country who has the same product as an outsider? Japanese consumers hold a high level of nationalism. The only reason the 360 is doing better (Which still isn't much) is because of price and the fact that JRPG's went multiplatform.

I hate to join in with the political chat since we're talking about games, but Iraq is a torn country since we occupied their country and implanted "democracy". Alot of them are glad we got rid of Saddam, but they want us to get the **** out.

It really makes me wonder when I see someone twice my age that apparently has half my common sense.

In response to a post above actually Laffer you owe every thing to America, if it wasn't for them defeating Hitler you probably wouldn't have video game consoles in your country, not to mention you would probably be enlisted in the army with no personal freedom. I don't agree with a lot of things America does but you of all people owe them everything.

Which system, of the two, costs less to be able to play the same games?  And note, the answer is GAMES here.  If you take a look at the Wii in the United States, it doesn't even play DVDs, and costs more than a 360.  How you can ask this question of the 360 is a bit absurd, considering what the Wii is doing.

Um....yes...its both value and price. As i've said before, Microsoft made it extremely hard for the consumers to tell the difference between an 360 and PS3, because they share so many multiplatformers and few exclusives.

wow this thread is shockingly bad. f*** politics, try talking about video games. or don't talk about video games. I've got a feeling this flame war is only starting.

I do not like to even answer that... Yes, you gave the germans money. You implanted the american companies very strongly in germany. Remember Merck Phamaceutical, they were germans, but US just took them over and turned their assest into american, thats why there are 2 of them now.

And I am not bitter about it, it is history, it was different times. Many people had their stake in it and we should learn from history. Never things like this should happen again and that is maybe, why especially germans are sensible on the World Police behaving US. AND YOU ARE WRONG, the UN never agreed on it, there was never an order from UN. Just the contrary was the case.