PS3, XBox 360, or Wii??

[Lipton64]

What are you guys digging this Christmas??

Personally I'm waiting till next summer when the prices go down somewhat. lol

[Kutjara]

1. Well, I've had a 360 for about six months and it's pretty good.

Some compelling games, DVD is good (although not HD without buying the extra HD player for $200).

The PS3 is still in silly-money eBay ripoff land, so I won't be getting one of those for awhile.

The Wii seems to be setting the world alight at the moment and is selling in huge numbers. The motion-sensitive controller is apparently a hoot, but be careful you don't accidentally fling it through the window.

[unsavedtrash]

2. my 11 y.o. nephew has convinced me to get the 360

looks pretty cool.

[chknltl]

3. I miss my 360

It broke down and I currently lack funds to get it fixed. My advice is to consider what games you like and will get the max fun out of. Then choose the platform which supports those games. Should you choose a 360, make sure you get the extended warranty...sure its a rip off but it could be money well spent. I live for RPGs, Oblivian is one of the best, and I look forward to HALO 3 so my 360 choice was based on those games. Happy gaming

[Kutjara]

4. Oblivion is definitely brilliant.

I've been playing it a lot lately, and can't get enough of my evul assassin thief.

Halo 3 promises to be great as well.

And don't forget Gears of War.

[chknltl]

5. I was hoping to get through Oblivion before Halo comes out...

...I sorely miss my level 45 female dark elf mage and all the cool stuff she has collected and her mansion in Anvil and....oh hell I even miss watchin the sunset views over Cyrodiil from up in the mountains! That damned game is SOOOO beautiful!!!
At the rate I was going Gears of War would be gettin play time about the time of the next presidential election....

[Kutjara]

6. I think I've wrung Oblivion dry.

I've done the main quest, all the guild quests, the downloadable plugin quests, bought all the houses and am now just skulking through town, murdering and robbing at random. I've become a bit of a serial killer and some of the towns are beginning to look decidedly empty.

[chknltl]

7. Wow...how fun...

Never thought to become a serial killer... Was a vampire for a bit... but actually felt guilty of pickin on the panhandlers so I did the cure thing. (I'm too much the dudley do-right I guess).

[Kutjara]

8. If you get some light garments...

...like pants, shirts, gloves, shoes and hoods that weigh 1 or 2, you can enchant them in the Arcane University with 20% Chameleon. If you enchant five garments, that gives you 100% Chameleon. This means you can walk around town, attacking and killing, and nothing will be able to fight back. You will also not get any bounty on your head because nobody knows who's commiting the murders.

Picking light garments means you can carry a lot more loot before you have to head off to your fence.

I'm about ready to start taking on the city guards. :D

[chknltl]

9. Splendid notion...some of those guards have it comin too!

...superior to the invisibility spell my charactor has been using...I have simply GOT to get my 360 fixed!

[Kutjara]

10. Yep, because Invis wears off when you attack.

Chameleon stays on, so you can dance around your target, hacking them to bits, while they come out with priceless comedy lines like "where are you?", "come out where I can see you," and (my personal favorite) "huh, I guess there's no one there" (this said while they're being filleted from all sides).

Huuuuuge fun.

[Fox Mulder]

18. The first thing I did in the game after escaping the prison...

was finish all the mages guild missions just so I could get access to the University to work the 20% chameleon enchantment spell. It made the thieves guild missions really easy! :D

[Kutjara]

24. It's the closest thing to invulnerability in the game.

I went crazy last night, attacking every citizen and guard in the Imperial City. They couldn't do a thing to stop me. Unfortunately, I still built up a bounty for each "murder," even though there's no way the guards could know it was me. I remedied this by wearing the Grey Fox cowl and using a 25% chameleon spell on myself to compensate for the loss of the 20% enchantment on my hood. That way, all the bounties went on the Grey Fox instead of my character. I'm up to about 50,000 gold now. Soon, I'll be the Osama bin Laden of Cyrodiil.

I just have to remember to take off the Grey Fox cowl before I let Chameleon drop, or my goose is cooked.

[jmowreader]

11. Windows box. Windows box.

Dude, a PS3 is like six hundred friggin' dollars and it does two things: plays games and serves as a Blu-Ray player. That's it.

You can buy a PC for the same money that will not only play games but will let you torture freepers.

[Kutjara]

19. Mac. Mac. Mac.

You can load Windows onto a separate partition for when you want to play games, then switch to the world's best OS when you want to do real work. :)

[jmowreader]

20. Dude, let me tell you something about that "separate partition" thing

Having Windows on a "separate partition" means that all those fucking Hard Drive Erasing Viruses on Windows, of which there are many, have access to your machine. And some clever soul (that is a synonym for "sick asshole") is going to release a virus that will wipe every partition on your physical unit, not just the partition that has Windows on it--which will cause your Mac OS stuff to go away too. No fucking way I'd put Windows on a Mac.

My first Mac had 512k of RAM--not megabytes, kilobytes--no hard drive, one floppy drive and a 9-inch black & white screen. And I bought it new.

Lemme tell ya what to do. Buy a Mac to work on. Buy a cheap yet potent PC for games. And put a KVM between the two, so you only need one monitor...or put a 17-inch monitor on the PC so your kid can play Grand Theft Auto or another enlightening, educational game while you work. (What's that one Timothy LaHaye put out? Left Behind: Eternal Forces? The one where you can shoot either hell-bound New Yorkers or fundies? Yeah. Get him that.)

[Kutjara]

23. I hear you.

Unfortunately, I have little choice, working at a company that exclusively uses PCs. Most of the company's database and CRM applications require Windows, so unless I want to carry two laptops everywhere, I need a Windows partition on my Mac (or switch entirely to a PC, which I'd prefer not to do). Fortunately, I don't need to access the company systems all that often, I don't use Windows for email and I've got the necessary antivirus/firewall/antispam stuff installed, so the vulnerabilities to Windows malware are acceptably small...for now.

I'm sure someone will one-day write a virus that can jump the partition and attack MacOS too. To do that, however, the virus would have to gain root privileges on the Mac side. If someone figures out how to do that, they wouldn't need to bother writing a virus or trojan that uses Windows as a "carrier;" they could directly attack MacOS itself. So I'm less concerned about a partition-hopping virus than I am about the ones that attack Windows directly. That alone is enough to keep my use of the OS to a minimum.

[jmowreader]

25. I don't think it would need to gain root on the Mac side

I know that at least in the first issue of Bootcamp--I don't have access to an Intel Mac so I can't say if this is still the case--you ran the box either in MacOS or in Windows XP. If you're in XP, all the partitions on your drive are going to be accessible to XP because MacOS is off.

There's not much of a demand for such a virus because most Windows guys run the whole drive as one partition. I was raised up to at least split the thing into a partition for things that don't change much (apps, OS, fonts) and a partition for things that change all the time, such as your data. I've seen absolute morans make a partition on their one hard drive for Photoshop scratch space. This makes no sense whatsoever because you want your scratch on a drive where the only thing moving the heads around is Photoshop. If your OS is moving the heads one direction and Photoshop moving them a different way, you actually LOSE performance doing that. A guy I know in Four Oaks has a G4 and a G5. Both have Photoshop on them. The G4 runs slower than the G5, but it's got two hard drives in it--one for Photoshop scratch, one for everything else. The G5 only has one hard drive in it. The G4 trounces the G5 in Photoshop performance...because the scratch doesn't have to service the whole machine. (He hasn't put a second drive in the G5 because he only uses Photoshop occasionally on it--the G4 is hooked to his scanner, so he does all his Photoshop stuff there.)

[WindRavenX]

12. My SO and I are getting a wii.

but we'll probably save for a PS3 when prices go down.

[Left Is Write]

13. None of the above.

[MrSlayer]

14. I'm getting a Wii for my son.

I'll be getting my PS3 around April since the games I want don't come out until then.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

15. I'm going to hook up my NES and play some old school games!

Mario 3, Zelda, Castlevania 1,2, and 3, Pinbot. Looking forward to some good times. I just need to find a Battletoads cartridge to make the dream happen.

[bigwillq]

16. None of the above.

I don't play any of those games.

[Fox Mulder]

17. XBox 360.

I've logged in over 75 hours on Oblivion in the last two months. I absolutely love that game.

I'm going to buy a PS3 after the holidays.

[Chico Man]

21. Check out SmashMywii.com

Funny stuff

http://www.smashmywii.com

[bridgit]

22. Wii & PSP...

for the g-kids

[qnr]

26. None - though I'd like a $200 GP2X (link provided)

From the site:
To sum up the GP2X:

It can play games. It can play your Movies. It can play your music. It can view photos. It can read Ebooks. It runs on just 2 AA batteries - And it can do all this in the palm of your hand or on your TV screen.

Yes that's right, this handheld can connect to the TV, console style. Watch your DivX movies on the TV. Play emulated classics on the TV. Try big screen Quake. Or just play them all on the GP2X's large 320*240 backlit screen. You get the best of both worlds.

It runs the free Linux operating system. This means a whole world of Games, Utilities and Emulators are at your disposal. Quake, Doom, SNES, Megadrive, MAME, Media players and Applications to name just a few.

It's powerful - Two 200mhz CPU's with 64meg of RAM, custom graphics hardware and decoding chips. Takes SD cards and has 64M of NAND memory. Plenty to play with. One of the most powerful and advanced handhelds today.

Lots of different sites, I just happen to have the UK one immediately available.
http://gp2x.co.uk/aboutgp2x.html

[carlydenise]

27. My kid got his wii as an early Christmas present on the day it came out

he really likes it...though, I have made sure to drum it in his head to put his wrist in the wrist band that is attached to the controller, I don't need him getting wild and flinging his controller into the tv, as I have seen demonstrated with other wii users.

Cheers
Carly

[pstokely]

28. PS3 (if you can easily afford and find one)