I would like to put in my two cents on the which system is better, since I am unbiased. Now if we are just talking about the consoles themselves, no games involved, then there is no question. Hands down the XBox is a far better system than the PS2, now if we start to include the games for each system, I will say that the PS2 has many more great games that the XBox does. The reason people buy a console are to play the games on it. If there are not that many games on a console that people want to play, but an inferior console has many games people want to play, they will buy the inferior console. A good example of this is when the Dreamcast came out, I played it for the first two weeks when I had it, but then I quickly went back to playing my PS1, and every once in a while I would play with my DC if I wanted to look at eyecandy. Now the Dreamcast was an extraordinary system when it came down to the hardware, but the games that were available for it were not that good, and that is what caused it's downfall. It's hardware is just as good as the hardware for the PS2, or the Gamecube if not better. As for the XBox having a hard drive, and being able to run linux, and PC software. There is an add-on hard drive that even comes with a Linux package in the works for the PS2, I think it may be out in someplaces already, but I am not too sure. And the arguement about if there is a game that comes out for both systems is looks better on the XBox, all I have to say is look at NFS HP2. It looks much worse on the XBox, and the cars handle much worse on the XBox too. The PS2 version of this game is much better than the XBox version. People should just stop trying to say that one machine is better than the other, they both have there positives, and negatives. If you were smart you would just try to get both machines, and then it wouldn't really matter to you which one was better, and you could play just about any game you wanted without worrying if you had the correct console or not, because I know no matter how much some of you would like to deny it, you really want to have an XBox, just so you CAN play halo.
bringing out all these emulators and what not to take away income for microsoft..They have enough as it is 
