Well it might be cheaper but you get no hard drive and you have to use memory cards, which is like one game per memory card, also if you wanted to get an aftermarket HDD that would cost an extra $100, so your already equal to the PS3 price with 60gbs less and everything else PS3 offers. Then if you want to play online you pretty much need a wireless adapter or a really really long either net cord, so at this point your in about $400 plus tax so like $425 and you dont even have everything yet that the PS3 has. Then your first month to play online is like $10 (roughly). So yes the PS3 might cost $100 more up front, but you end up saving around $150(easily) just in your first month of having it. There is only 17million Xbox Live users in the world, PS3 just broke 28million daily users, not to mention the accounts made and not used EVERYDAY but every now and then.. No system has more violent games, Xbox has the halo generation and that is about it, every other game that xbox has is out for PS3. You can even play Halo on PS3 with a bit of work, so Halo isnt even a 360 exclusive. As for your negatives, I agree completely. PS3 though you can download movies for free (I have like 50 of them so far) and I only know of 3 PS3s that broke in my school since their release which was because of person error. My cousin left her PS3 on for 9 weeks and it was fine, didnt over heat once or have the slightest error, it even works till this day and its the first 40gb to ever come out. Also, PS3 has blueray, and each game has 50gbs of data on it, and costs as much as a 360 which as 7gbs of data on each disk, so 360's games are way over priced. Its all about steping back and looking at the facts of each model. I could go on for days about this. I try not to be bias since I do have a PS3, but when I was looking to get a consel, I did all of this myself back then. I think I might make a review on the PS3 vs 360.