well, i agree with the fact that xbox live owns the !@#$%^&* out of the ps3 online system, purely because it's more interactive and has alot more features than the ps3 does... at the moment. when "home" is released for the ps3 (i think in april or may? not sure), i think it will take over the online system of the xbox. you could say home is just copying the xbox360, but it's just a step forward into competing with live. home will feature making your own apartment and being able to go into other peoples areas (kind of like the sims), and be completely customizable. arcade games will be avaliable to play with other people. you can meet and talk to each other whilst in home via bluetooth headset/virtual keyboard/usb keyboard, listen to music and exchange content. and being that the ps3 network now is free and so will "home", while xbox live isn't (i know it's not that much money, but it's still not free), people might just start to prefer the ps3 network instead. to comment on the games that the ps3 has: there isn't a wide range of the best !@#$%^&*les avaliable on the ps3, because of the fact that it's harder and more of a longer task coding the game on the ps3 than it is on xbox360. but now with the !@#$%^&*les scheduled for release on the ps3 (notably MGS4, GT5, Resistance 2, Wardevil and GTA), the ps3 is looking like a promising media system and i'm confident that we'll see news that the sales of the ps3 will go up and probably passing the xbox360 sales. (and yes, i understand the fact the xbox has been around much longer than the ps3 so of course the ps3 would have to overtake it at some point) also, the gig of the harddrive in the ps3 is irrelevant to sales - you could just stick a 500 gig in the system or just use it as an external. fact is, the xbox360 has been around a !@#$%^&* sight longer than the ps3 has - and that has obviously been a HUGE advantage for microsoft to take control of the console market and sell so much more consoles than sony. i think that sony shot themselves in the foot by not releasing the console on time and by buggering around with blu-ray devices :/ they've had more time for developers to get used to coding and rendering the games for the xbox360, whilst the ps3 uses a more complicated structure so it's another setback but perhaps for the better? more time to work on the games, more time to iron out bugs/glitches? blu-ray is also another big factor in their sales and popularity, seeing as how the HD-DVD market is nearly dead (and how microsoft supported HD-DVD...), the ps3 offers basically a home entertainment system for one single price, cheaper than just a blu-ray player by itself - while the xbox360 instead offer an add-on for HD-DVD for a price. so basically, bringing all the above into account, surely the ps3 will make its mark and opinions of biased fanboys of the xbox360 community will change?