I was surprised to receive an email from Microsoft yesterday that they had received my 360 at the repair center. I was expected it to take until early next week for them to get it. I was even more surprised that a few hours later I got another e-mail that my 360 was being sent back to me. I don’t know if they fixed my current one, or if they fixed my old one. Either way I hope it doesn’t just immediately get 3 red lights once I plug it back in. It would be nice to get some sort of feedback about what the technicians observed and did to fix it.

I have little faith in this being a long time fix. Do I sell it and the warranty on ebay? The only bad thing is I bought the MS wheel too. That’ll be a little harder to sell and ship. It was also a substantial investment.
What are my other choices though.

The Wii? I already owned a GameCube. Do I really feel the need to buy another one? Except with a $150 controller? I will definitely buy a Wii… once I can actually find one. But I seriously don’t see it being a long term gaming platform. Can you really see it holding up for the next 4 or 5 years? Online play is also important to me.. and they aren’t exactly helping me buy the Wii on that front. If someone can.. please point Nintendo to these comments. It will be difficult, because first you’ll have to explain what the internet is and why people would like it. Also, if you are in that tight with them. Please explain what Hi-Def Television is, and why people would want it.

The PS3? Actually starting to lean more and more to this being my main console platform in the future. My only real problems with the PS3 at this point is the controller. Really, have they not seen the 360 controller? I’m glad the PS3 has analog triggers now, but they don’t exactly have a lot of action to them. Also, after you’ve used a controller with offset analog sticks, anything else just seems outright retarded. Their online isn’t as slick as Xbox, but it is free, I can tolerate some crap for free. Also, they have dedicated servers on some of their games. Particularly first party games. I’m getting pretty tired of playing people online who are downloading their favorites movies while trying to host a 16 player game.

Bah, maybe I’ll head back to the PC.