Personally my husband and I both prefer the xbox. We had several ps2's and the five(we had three waranteed,the were replaced free of charge)we had all broke down within several months. Hubby loves his video games so this time around we decided to go with the xbox. We have had it about a month and have had ZERO problems with it. Also, I hear the ps3 is coming out in early 2007 now because the several they had set fire! I heard that from a Sony rep. Good luck with your decision and have fun with whichever you choose Also, you dont have to buy memory cards for the xbox to save games. You could play dvd's on it but it wears out the laser faster(on both systems) since it continually runs as in a game it doesn't spin the whole time.