[stomachmonkey]

I spent the last 12 years of my life as the creative director at a major video game publisher. Who went CH 7 on me, stiffed me for my last paycheck, 100 vacation days, as well as some other stuff that has left me, the wife, 2 kids and 600 of my co-workers royaly f'd.

The xbox is a far superior piece of hardware, easier to program for and capable of more than the PS2.

Still i'd buy a PS2. The back catalog of games is second to none and the PS3 will be backwards compatible with PS2 games. The Xbox2 will be backwards compatible as well but Sony know how to do this right.

Sony have much stricter controls and hold publishers/developers to a higher standard than Microsoft does.

Whichever platform you buy get your hands on a copy of Juiced when it comes out after the holiday season. One of the last games that I worked on. It's been picked up by THQ.