I'm going to take more time to talk about some of the games I play on my PC as well as consoles.  Today's praise and beef goes to the PS2.

First, you gotta hand it to Sony when it comes to putting dynamite in small packages.  The slim PS2 that I have is a real dream in terms of size.  But the success of a console is determined by the games.  Let's look at two PS2 examples:

Guitar Hero is, in a word, addictive.  I've had several friends recommend I buy it, and I think it was Kim Pallister's blog post that did it for me.  This game is soooo much fun, and I have yet to try it out in two-guitar mode.  This one was very worth the money!  The only problem is that every time I play it, I think about how much better of an experience it would be on the 360...the integration of XBox Live would change this from a great game to a perfect game.  Hopefully the folks at Red Octane and Harmonix Music are thinking about this (and if you're from Red Octane or Harmonix Music and you want to hook up with the 360 people....write to me and I will have you talking to the right people in less than 24 hours!).

On the other end of the spectrum is an older game called "My Street" published by Sony.  It was released three years ago, much to worldwide rasberries from reviewers in every corner, so I'm late to the scene in declaring that this game sucks like an inverted hurricane.  Let me put it another way...I got this game for free and I still want my money back.  Poor modeling, poor gameplay, no online abilities (Sony apparently shut down the network feature some time ago), poor user interfacing, poor camera work.  This is one of those games that should be used in schools to teach students how NOT to build a console game.

I think I made my point.  Now if you'll excuse me, there's a plastic guitar that demands I play "Crossroads" by Cream...