I know what Addis is saying, in that regard consoles own PC's, for $400 or so you can get a state of the art console that will play games that have a leg up on the PC for about a year or so. In time obviously it's going to become more or less obsolete in PC terms but if you want kick butt gaming on a budget it's the way to go really. You just pop in whatever console specific game you bought and in a few seconds it's ready to go no problem. No installation times, no driver updates, no spyware/viruses, no random crashes, BSODs, intolerably slow framerates, graphical settings tweaking to be done etc. They just play, and remember how crappy early PS2 games looked? At the time they were sweet but think of how much better they are now, it's that way with every conosole as developers get more familiar and proficient with the platform. In this regard a new console is a beautiful thing.