They have "added" things to their system later on - not as a benefit for the consumer, but to patch the piece of crap machinery the xbox really is. Now I have one, and I would never buy a ps3, but the difference in build quality is without comparison. For "all retail" users - users who pay $ for everything they play and never intending on flashing - you would be daft to choose the xbox over the ps3. Seriously, pick up a game and a ps3 and play on it a few days. Return both and pick up the equivalent game and an xbox, and you would realize the difference of quality and user convenience. Let alone free online gaming, istead of that Live bs...