I honestly did have plans to accually go out and pick up a  once it got some half decent games out there and the price dropped a bit. 
however now I'm just in a state of shock at the sheer number of broken systems I'm seeing on an everyday basis.  The latest being the horror story told by Scott over at www.vgcats.com

Besides that case just the other day in EB I say 3 diffrent 360s all trying to be returned none of them with anything less then a hardware problem. 

And yet here the gamespot boards still rave with half blind halo fans and xbox fanboys. Why?

Seriously the game has some great sports titles and great online play for it but can that 400 dollar price tag be justified for a pc user when the xbox has proven that it is very much capable of breaking down on a regular basis.  At least I know my nintendo machines and my computer have never done that.

My ps2 while it has not yet broken down after two years I don't hold much hope for since in that amount of time I went through 2 diffrent playstation ones.

It's not like I'm hard on my systems or anything either.  Heck I spend extra for a good case and a  couple of extra fans and lighting for my pc. 

Why is it that out of all the three gaming giants nintendo which is probally the one with the LEAST money is chargning less for it's systems which almost never break down and sony and microsoft with more dollars chargemore per system and their machines break down far far more frequently.  Althought I think Microsofts 360 is setting a new standard very quickly of machine to broken ratio. :P

At the end of the day you almost wish someone would slap a few company pr people in the face and say "if you trying to get me to spend more then 200 dollars on anything nowadays it had better not break down every year you jerk!"

This is one sad not getting a 360 now gamer blogging out.