You know, the reality is that the Xbox 360 is more less a full blown PC and not so much a console. And while they are first to market with their unit, one has to wonder if Sony will mop the floor with them again in sales?

Microsoft’s first try at a gaming console amounted to essentially a very affordable PC. It used standard PC components, including a mobile Intel processor (a hybrid Pentium 3/Celeron), a desktop NVIDIA chipset, a Western Digital hard drive and relatively standard PC DVD-ROM. The original Xbox was such a PC in fact that there were quite a few users that wanted to mod it simply to have a cheap PC, not even for gaming - including ourselves. Before the Xbox was launched, Microsoft was very concerned with users thinking of the Xbox as nothing more than a PC branded as a gaming console, so it went to great lengths to reduce the association. [Read the rest]

[tags]xbox 360,gaming console,dvd-rom[/tags]