The Next Generation Consoles

[Quark]

My brother picked up a used one, threw in a mod chip, threw in a bigger HD, and we've been playing Halo and Halo II through Kai ever since (its a free online service like X-Box live).  I was avidly against an microsquish console at the start, but I must admit xbox has won me over.  PS2 may have more titles, but I feel xbox has won the battle in the long run.

I like the PS2 game selection better than Xbox. Not quantity, but style. Xbox is notoriously short on RPGs. Anyone who responds with Fable and Jade Empire are kidding themselves, too. Fable was not as epic as it was boring, and Jade Empire is just one game.

On the note of formatting, last month I read an article about BD and HdDVD.  At that point it was still 50gig vs. 30gig, not 100 vs. 50.  Oh how quickly the make new layers  :P .  A month ago the article said they were meeting in a few days to condense formats (like the article you linked).  Too bad it hasn't happened yet, so I'm a bit skeptical about it happening "possibly in a week."

I thought a whole 2 days after the article saying they were gonna collaborate, there was statements by both Philips and Sony saying they were not ready to work together? The whole story was bunk to begin with.

My final selection won't be based off the console's capabilities, it'll be the play selection again. If the companies I favor choose Xbox 360, I'll grab that. If not, it's still Sony for me.