[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] EP1TAPH Unfortunately, I've heard that 360 will almost be $500. Which is the price of a low-quality laptop - BUT STILL A LAPTOP! Except it's a low-quality laptop you can only play games and put music on. Good god.... How much better can gaming get than xbox other than an actual PC? NOT MUCH! Microsoft should just keep updating xbox like it's been doing instead of forcing players to spend half a grand on a new gaming consol. Xbox pretty much has unlimited memory and top of the line graphics. Not to mention the most resources via the its producer Microsoft. PS3 will sell tenfold what 360 will simply because its Sony which is Japan-marketed. Microsoft gets most its sales in America and Europe. Sony gets world wide. The PS3 consol will sell more than 360 hands down. I hate Sony, but it's a fact. Now, instead of attempting to out do them in sales (especially with a $500 consol) just MAKE BETTER GAMES. The only reason people buy Xbox is for Halo. I wonder why people will buy 360 then? Oh yeah, release H3 on it and force a spending of roughly $600 to beat Sony in annual income! I forsee broken dreams and broken hearts in 2006. Like MS doesn't have enough money as it is... instead of making more, just build a fan base. Between a $600 investment of a consol and one game (not to mention a possible new live subscription?) and whatever Sony will dish out worldwide for half the price - who's going to win?[/quote] M$ didn't really create the Xbox for profit. In fact, they made little to no profit in Xbox sales. The point of the Xbox was to get a hold in the industry, so that when they made the next console, people knew they had what it took to get it done in the console business. The Xbox is old. People don't follow the same thinking that caused the video game crash in the early 80's. Consoles have to keep evolving, or the market will crawl to a stand-still. As far as good games are concerned, M$ has been making a HELL of a lot of new deals with game developers now for the 360. They were holding back on that as well for the next console. Everything they did when they released the Xbox was a pretense to the 360, when Microsoft would actually try to become #1. You watch, they're gonna do it. Because their market research is absolutely -blam!- ingenious.