Well for one. A console cannot play World of Warcraft, minimize the game, look up a quest and reopen the game. It cannot play large amounts of music, nor multi-task. You can argue these points, but consoles get the washed down version of everything. C'mon, EVERYONE knows a console is a wanna-be PC. Look what you're typing on right now. PC's develope games, they'll always be the center platform.

You're a complete "Ray Charles" if you do not see what PC's are these days. Amazing possibilitys and an open world to just about anything.

So PLEASE, stop acting like the extra $1,500 doesn't count for nothing. You get what you pay for. Do you want to play games and get some basic online play + media experience? Or do you want the full package, that can be used for just about anything?

Even if a gaming PC cost 2 grand, it's worth it. Music + multimedia + DVD burning...website surfing...youtube, myspace, instant messaging. Bit torrents, free music ( They have legal free music, they advertise, and you get it for free)

One day you walk into a store. See this game that looks interesting. You say, "Hey, i should buy this". You buy it, take it home, and it completely SUCKS. You then return it to the store, basically telling them, "Hey, this game sucks, give me back my money" . You walk out, happy.

I personally think it'd be very cool to recieve refunds on games. It would make the devs A LOT more pressured to actually make a good game, that's worth keeping for replay value. I think you should only have a 24 hour limit to return it though, to stop people from playing the game, and then just returning it once they've beaten it.

Holy good, mother of Jesus. First off people...understand this.

MS, Sony, Nintendo ALL sell their consoles to retailers i.e. Best Buy etc....that is A CONSOLE SOLD! End of story. Whether a consumer buys it or not, DOES not matter. It matters overall, but not for that particular console. MS, Sony and Nintendo already got their money. They could care less...what they DO care about, is if the console sells well. Once Best Buy runs out of Xbox 360's, they then order more AND PAY MICROSOFT, COUNTING AS A SALE. So if Microsoft shipped 50 Xbox 360's to a single Best Buy store, IT COUNTS AS A SALE. Best Buy pays for ALL 50 360's. They then SELL the item, and recieve very low profits, as the 360 doesn't produce much profit for the retailers. So basically, as SOON as it hits a store, it's already sold. The retailer then just passes the title to you for a different price. NONE of the money retailers make from the consoles, EVER goes back to MS, Sony, or Nintendo. EVER, EVER, EVER. So shipped to retailers, is sold units. Whether or not they sell them, and have more shipped, determines if the console is selling well. If it's flying off the shelves, Best buy is ordering more, and therefore, Microsoft is selling more 360's....not to the consume, but to the retailer, who's then selling them to the consumer.

It's simple. And NO, they cannot keep track of actual consumer prosession numbers. Stores cannot report such numbers on a mass scale, and they're not logged into any special computer system. It'd be too costly, for such an insignificant item. They use shipped to retailer numbers, because in reality, those ARE sales.

You know, i'm playing FFVII right now...and i must say, i don't REALLY understand all the hype about the game. I mean, it's sorta fun, but the graphics, and pretty much everything else, is a complete downgrade from FFX. I LOVED FFX. That game will stay with me forever, as thee greatest, and most memorable i've played. The story, graphics, gameplay....uhgg loved it all.

Now FFVIII is pretty good, i'm sorta playing FFVII and FFVIII at the same time, and so far i pretty much like VIII better. Haven't tried IV yet..and have been thinking about Chrono Cross...heard it's fun.