My son and I pooled our money together and bought a PlayStation2 over the weekend.  The bundle came with a game called Ratchet and Clank by Insomniacs which my son and I took turns playing.  I am not too impressed with the graphics, but the game itself is very well done and a pleasure to play.  Since I am a cranky old man when it comes to quality of software, the fact that I like the game means quite a lot.

Why didn't I get an Xbox?  Becaues it's the application (games) that matter, not the platform.  Selection of available games for rent at BlockBuster is much bigger for PS2.