What's missing from this picture? If you said "an Xbox 360", then you are correct. It's been about a month and a half since my 360 broke for the second time, and it took a little while longer for me to get it sent off for repairs.
I usually end up in email or text message exchanges (or, more outlandishly, actual physical conversations) with people about technology-related stuff. Every so often, I'm asked, "What next-generation console should I buy? A PS3 or a 360?"
Just yesterday, for the first time, I recommended that a reader of this site buy a Playstation 3 instead of an Xbox 360, based almost exclusively on the latter machine's reliability problems. The 360 has a great library of games and a nice controller, but quite frankly, the best exclusives have already appeared, and the hardware is a complete and utter joke. If/when I get another 360 (or a repaired 360) back, I'm literally going to be afraid to use it in case it breaks again. That is not the case with the PS3, which, despite being ugly as sin, having a relatively nasty game pad, and not having Halo 3, will probably still actually WORK by the time Resident Evil 5 and Brutal Legend (and whatever other multiplatform titles I want to play) appear on it.
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