defection

What's the holidays without a little technological gadgetry upgrade? Well it would still be the holidays, but also getting some new gadgets is certainly more fun! My honey V. couldn't wait until Christmas to give me my Christmas present, so I got it super early this year... she got me an Xbox 360 Elite! It's super cool looking in all black and even has its own distinctive black controller. The Elite has everything the regular X360 has, plus a 120GB drive, HDMI cable connector, and black headset. It also came with two free games, LEGO Indiana Jones and Kung-Foo Panda. I'm not too sure about those two games, but I will probably get to playing them eventually.
V. knows me so well... she knew they probably wouldn't cut it so she got me a copy of Halo 3 to get my violence rampage on. (Hey, killing ugly bad things in the virtual world, just might make you a better person in the real world.) So I stopped (momentarily) playing through GTA4 for the third time, to get into the world of Master Chief. So far it's been a real challenge, playing the game at "Heroic" difficulty I have to try most levels many many times before I can get through it. But the gameplay and storyline is fairly similar to Resistance 2
for the PS3, which I finished in an unbelievably short period of time. I haven't ventured online to play against other people yet but I will, I hear it is a lot of fun and some people never even play the solo campaign, opting to spend all their time online instead.
So now I'm a little conflicted, having been so long a Sony PS3 fanboy and now I have an X360 as well. What games to buy, which system to spend more money and time on? The PS3 has the home theater setup going for it, with Blu-Ray support and a decent web browser. On the other hand the X360 also interfaces nicely with our PC as a Windows Media Center extender. Well, we'll see how it goes as I play around with the X360 and learn more about what it can do.