I can't even remember what game was the straw that broke the camel's back when it came to me finally getting a 360. I don't even know when I did buy it now.

Prey and Just Cause for me. I thought upside down FPS' were the future.

I can't even remember what game was the straw that broke the camel's back when it came to me finally getting a 360. I don't even know when I did buy it now.

The first game I played when we got the 360 was Hexic HD.

:rawk:

I pretty much bought mine because I was bored, off work because of my elbow, and financially irresponsible.

I like getting new gadgets. It gives me pleasure in an otherwise stressful, bleak existence.

Apart from the elbow, that explains my entire console collection.

I'm usually a step or two behind though. I bought a DS this week - but opted for a cheap DSi rather than a 3DS. I think a PS3 is about the only major console I've not owned or own now. I still can't think of enough reasons to get one though.

How much did the 360 cost when it came out?

£300 I think.

So, sweepstake on HDD capacity? I think Microsoft will be stingy and give us 500GB.

*awaits WTB flaming*

So, sweepstake on HDD capacity? I think Microsoft will be stingy and give us 500GB.

*awaits WTB flaming*

I'm unsure. I'd say something like that, but then I was shocked when they released a disk-less 360 Slim at all.

Plus, if this is going to be the generation where the transition from physical to digital really starts to take place, you're going to want people to have somewhere to put your games!

As long as I can stream The Zookeeper 2 to my telly, I'm grand. I also hope it will download conversations I can have with my wife right into my brain. Maybe be intoning "XBOX BING THINK". I hope Bing is more entwined in the next box. Like a tapeworm.

The earliest adopting I did of a console was to get a Gamecube before it came out (over here). Switchable from Lik Sang. Most hardcore I've ever been. Most disappointed too. My telly ran it in black and white. Desperately got a component cable thinking that'd improve things, and realised I had no sockets for it in my telly.

So glad I finally got a telly with component sockets. Only nine years later.

You should probably have tried an RGB scart lead. Did you ever try that?

Thoughtful post: http://www.industrygamers.com/news/xbox ... ouldnt-do/

Possibly even if you don't play games on it.

Aye, there's the rub. How many people have a PS3 for non-games duty only?

One of the commenters on that piece raises something I've pondered: the value of a touchscreen mounted under the current pad, where the keyboard on the Chat Kit goes. I think that could be interesting.

Aye, there's the rub. How many people have a PS3 for non-games duty only?

I was thinking about this the other day. Kind of like a touch screen, full colour VMU. That's the only thing I can think of (apart from the D pad) that would make the Xbox controller better for the next gen.