[KraftSLU]

Personally, I would love to sit on my couch with 3 of my mates, drinking beer, and smacking the crap out of 16 other suckers from around the world in my fps games. I think a *lot* of people went the MS route for that reason too. I went the MS route because I love to sit on my couch and play games with friends, which the XBox is great for, and I love to play online against a multitude of people who present me with different strategies and different playing styles to play against, which MS seemed to me at the time to have the best chances of providing.

But also realize that MS's main intention by dumping so much money into the networks isn't primarily to promote online gaming. They are really just trying to get people to plug their computers and their xbox into a home network. MS is trying to take computing to the living room via the xbox, so the investment will be worth it to them whether they make money or not on the ordeal. Thats why they are now developing attatchments for the xbox that allow you to access your PC from across the house and play mp3s or videos and stuff through the network and into your living room. Friggin genius if you ask me.