Now that's good news for me

lol at fanboys calling other people fanboys...I have all 3 systems and a PC if we are gonna go there...360 is by FAR the best for gaming and the PS3 is catching up argument is done the fucking things been out for 3 years.

I have to say that the Xbox 360 is the WORST quality video game console to EVER come out, I got 4 systems in my house and 5 times I had to send them out for repair and the 6th time, I had to buy a brand new system once because one of them was past the warranty period, that's what you call badly designed. Even the guys at the shipping store say that every day they package and ship up 4-5 consoles and I live in a small area, I can imagine what it's like in a big city. Hell, Microsoft is keeping UPS afloat. I guess that the one good thing I can say is that they are pretty fast and I was pretty happy to see a brand new replacement the last time when my elite edition shit out.

As far as the online capabilities, I got both and I gotta say that the Xbox360 online community/gaming does blow away the PS3, then again, PS3 is giving a free service whereas Microsoft is making a mint from their fees and can afford to make it great. I myself do think it's worth paying for :)

As far as the games go, most of the "must have" games are on both systems, I know that Microsoft does have games like "Gears Of War", but PS3 has "Killzone" and the upcoming "Gods Of War", plus "Uncharted 2", so I think they're a little more balanced than people say, each system has a couple of must have exclusives.

The new xbox's don't have this problem apparently.,

i still have my xbox 360 from launch day still running strong :thumbsup

Actually, my elite edition was only 7 months old when it got the 3 rings of death, which I thought that system was fixed, I guess not, unless the new new systems are fixed.

You're very fortunate that your system hasn't had that problem yet, ha ha.

Did your elite have a hdmi output?

Yep, it had the hdmi output.

I really like my ps3 so far. I use it to stream movies/music etc from my desktop. Which kicks ass. I also love that you can easily install a partitioned and much larger hard drive. I can use linux on it, or the PS3 OS which means you can do other cool stuff.