TheOtis
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I have yet to have a problem with compatibility with my 360. Though it is true not all game are backwards compatible for the console, they tried to do it for most of its popular games. It's a cool feature, but I don't buy new systems to play old games anyways...
Yes, a PC and a game console are both types of computers but PCs serve much more then a game machine to most people. They cannot be compared in price.
Congrats, you've just named everything that the 360 can do as well... Just replace Blu-Ray with HD DVD. Also, the 360 has Xbox live which the PS3 has yet to compete with (One of the main reasons I favor the 360 of the PS3).
Regardless of the power, the development kits for the console a still not taking full potential of it and developers do not like to write for it.
You really wanna compare the 360 to the PS3? Current video game selection aside-
-Xbox 360 with 20gig hard drive- $400
-Wireless Adapt-$100
-Xbox Live One Year- $50
-HD-DVD add-on-$200
There's a $750 sub-par PS3. Not to mention smaller hard drive, non-rechargable controllers, non-upgradable hard drive unless you want to buy multiple 20's or buy a 120gig for almost $200, and it still uses standard DVD 9's, Halo 3 ships on 2 game DVD's because it can't fit on one DVD.
Also, if you wanted you can install Yellow Dog Linux or Ubuntu on your PS3 if you wan't more functionality. Like watching any file type of a movie in VLC, or word processing, or download torrents, or anything for that matter.
Sure it's not the fastest thing in the world, but it still works well for Media, word processing, and web browsing.