OHOH, I should throw in the little I know about consoles:
I own a Sega Genesis, Atari 2600, Gameboy, Gameboy Advanced, Super Nintendo, (used to own) Jaguar, and I own a Xbox (thats 'a' but it sounds odd, like it should be an, oh yeah exbox
) The Xbox does have the highest technical capabilities, but whats that matter if all the current 3 living room consoles have graphics as good as my TV. The Xbox already has M$ extras, try DVD software and Internet. Yes the DVD player needs osftware, I can't just set up my universal to use the Xbox, shame too. I like the games i have on my Xbox, Oddworld was a big reason I went with what I did (M$ payed the company a lot of money I guess since they're sticking with them for Oddworlds next 3 games) . The xbox may eventually have a version of Linux for it (as soon as a bunch of people hack some code I think). Interestingly the Gameboy Advanced has outsold anyother console (though I think its because their aren't other handhelds, Palms aren't the same market: they're more fragile, not oriented towards games alone; more expensive.) The PS2 has, of course, the library of all PS1 games, so please don't praise the PS1 then say PS2 is bad, thats silly. The gamecube sells almost entirely little kids games, with a few exceptions, like Resident Evil. If you intend on doing odd things with it, I'd say don't buy the gamecube, its the least customizable console. Oh and yeah, the xbox is a computer, I've read the specs before, it even has a seperate graphics card... its very much the kind of set up found in computers.
