PS2.5 =
LINK!!
Methinks Xbox will already do this with a small tweak here and there
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Xbox is the gamers machine for people who dont want a PC.
1. WAN games are fucking awesome and on par with PC (not the same scope, granted). But most genre's are catered for - FPS, Role Play, Racing, and covered pretty well with graphics that are only a year out of date (Sorry PS2 graphics are shite now). Full speech transmission is cool (though I hate that "feature" that can change how you sound, I really don't like killing things that sound 8yrs old).
2. They have the best FPS game on the market to date (wait for Vectorman), in HALO.
3. The "real" racing games (xcept for F1 2003) are solid (MotoGP2 and Colin's Rally Game).
4. I do not need to reconfigure my hardware to have a LAN party!
I have a few more but I just realised I'm defending Satan's (MR. BG) product, ack!