Yea of course the PS2 graphics sucks, it is an older model compaired to XBOX when it came out. I feel that the game selection fro PS2 was much greater then the XBOX. See what really counts is the gameplay not the graphics. I have played some really graphically great games but the gameplay sucked which ruined it for me. I rather sit through 40+ hours of gameplay with bad graphics, then playing 10 hours of a tremendously great graphic game with no gameplay. Personally there are way too many buttons on the XBOX games to make any game enjoyable, for instance i played the new tom clancy ghost recon and there is about 500 different button combinations to get through that game, making it a play 5 sec and pause so you can read what buttons do which, not mention the ridiculously hard game play on top of that. oh there is another thing about the XBOX i dont like, the HD side of it. You gonna have to spend a good amount of money to get the XBOX looking like it they present it. First off is a new TV, because even HD Tv of like 5 years ago, they graphics still look like crap. I know from personal experience when my friend brought it over to another friends house and he has a 50 inch HD and there wasnt much difference from playing on my TV, which is a flat screen non HD but less then a year old.
Plus the are remaking the greatest game ever made Final Fantasy 7 for PS3 WOOOHOOO, take that XBOX.
Anyway, if you look at it, you can build a better comp than either the XBOX or PS3, for the same amount of money. That is the route i went but i spent 2500 on my comp
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