That online gaming been around since platinum series PS2 and original XBox, thing is don mean shit on this continent, you need broadband to run it efectively, and we all know while pretty much every household in the 1st world has home broadband, we a damn site from that at an affordable rate in Africa.
The PS3 will also have the same capabilities........ But seriously as someone who spent a lot of time contemplating buying an XBox as well as my PS2, it isnt worth it, like Deac said the games are f***in hard to get hold of here in Africa, cos Microsoft has as yet not even launched the XBox in Africa, they dont feel its a market worth exploiting. They got no aftersales service here, you'd have to send yo XBox to the closest PAL service centre, England, if anything broke, even if its under gaurantee, you gotta pay transport.
As far as games go I played about thirty, including all the highly anticipated ones, and they ok but not in anyway betta than PS2 games.
Halo is a cool game and maybe six or seven others but, the f***ed up thing is, even tho the XBox is a lot more powerful than the PS2, the Xbox ports of PS2 games play kak compared to the PS2 originals, bcos the PS2 programmers dont feel the need to work as hard for such a small circulation.
Buy it if you want, but In my opinion, and I aint alone in this.... wait the seven months and buy the PS3.
