it's a Microsoft product. Get over it. After you spend your hard-earned $400 on the console itself (a device Microsoft will likely lose money on anyway), the software giant need never see another cent from you. But because Xbox 360 is a next-generation console with better-than-PC capabilities, the PC ports available for that system are first-rate, identical to the PC versions. Today, that's titles like Quake 4, Call of Duty 2, and King Kong. In the future, Half-Life 2 and other titles will be added. So if you're looking for the full experience, but don't want a PC, and could conceivably rally around playing these games on the biggest screen in the house, Xbox 360 might just be the obvious solution.