We bought an XBox in no small part to keep the kids that visit us from wanting to install and play games on our computer. They get their games, and I get a computer that's relatively reliable.
Of course, once we got it I had to play with it and now I'm afraid I spend a bit too much time playing around with it. Not playing games on it mind, but playing with the system itself. It's actually basically a computer that you can do all sorts of things with, including loading and playing all the old arcade roms on, or playing your MP3 collection over your stereo. It's kind of addictive...
