I never buy consoles the year they come out. It's always better to get them the following year, better hardware, more complete game library. So I waited on the 360 and now, it's totally worth owning. Great games, great tech etc. I think I'll be saying more or less the same thing about the Wii next year. Not so much from a technoligical side of things, but from a game library side. My Gamecube still gets a lot of play, the games are just fun, not fancy.