I was a PC-only gamer for well over a decade. That changed last February when I bought an Xbox 360. It was a combination of factors that led me to make this purchase. One was to see what all the fuss was about. Another was to have something to hook up to my new LCD HDTV and play from my couch. My third motivational factor was to see if I could find something my wife, a committed non-gamer, and I could play together. My wife is not a computer whiz (by any stretch of the imagination), so a console would be the only way to even have a chance of getting her to try gaming at all. While getting my wife to try gaming has yet to happen, something else did. I remembered why I played games in the first place. I had delved so far into the framerate, image quality and hardware aspects of PC gaming for the last few years, mostly because of reviewing that I do for LAN Addict ( http://www.lanaddict.com ), that I had all but killed the fun of gaming. Gaming on the Xbox 360 reminded me of all the things that drew me to gaming over two decades ago. I have grown to enjoy console gaming so much that I have purchased an Xbox to play the titles that Microsoft does not seem inclined to make backward compatible on the Xbox 360. I have also rediscovered racing games, which I hadn't played since Atari's Night Driver arcade game could be found in almost every arcade in the country. I've found racing games to be so much fun that I have purchased a steering wheel controller for each platform I own! Don't get me wrong, I'm not giving up PC gaming by any stretch of the imagination! There are some games that I just have to play on the PC to really enjoy, such as Oblivion. I have both the Xbox 360 and PC versions of Oblivion. The PC version's graphics are just light years better than the Xbox 360 version's, at least on my PC. For the record, my PC consists of an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ CPU on an ASUS A8N32-SLI motherboard with 2GB of Patriot 2-3-2-6 DDR, a pair of XFX 7900GT Extreme Edition video cards and a Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS sound card connected to an Altec Lansing 5131 5.1 surround set of speakers. I also have 745GB of storage space over four hard drives, so I don't have to uninstall any games or demos unless I want to. ;-) I have all of my gaming hardware connected to my 24" Dell widescreen LCD monitor. Both of my consoles are connected to a Pelican HD Selector, which is connected to my monitor via component video, and run at 1080i. My PC is connected to the same monitor via DVI. All of my gaming has 5.1 surround sound, so I don't miss a thing from that angle. I'm having more fun gaming now than I have in a very long time and I wouldn't give up my consoles or my PC. There is room in my gaming life for both.