*wipes the sleep from his eyes and cracks his knuckles with a dark chuckle*
Now u in my house :twisted: .............. PS2 does indeed play dvd-r, it also has the widest selection of gaming material, cos all the japanese, european and US software houses program for this platform, while mostly US houses program for X-Box, but some japs too, the X-box games are always very pretty cos of shitloads of power but a small percentage of the games are strong on gameplay. Cos well, just as far as i'm concerned the best game designers hav always been the japanese.
Many fuggin cool games never get released outside of japan, but they're all available on PS2, while only the hugest ones will get translated to X-box and well the peeps that work with Nintendo are "purists" who ONLY program for Nintendo.
Gamecube has very few games comparitively but their games are always fun, not many of them though and this platform is purely for gaming, no extra multimedia applications.
If you decide to go PS2 route, which isnt a bad way to go cos their are still shitloads of game sbeing produced and developed which should keep u happy well beyond the release of PS3, u might consider ordering a NTSC PS2 from japan, in SA we run PAL PS2's like in Europe, but the jap and US NTSC's support a higher framerate so the games run faster and look just slightly better, but that means you have to net-order all yo games.
Hope it helps man,
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