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I got a PS2 pretty much just to play Gran Turismo 4. I'm sure I'll get a couple of other games in the bargain bin at some point, but GT4 is really all I wanted. I wish they would just make a PC version so they could have saved me some $.

I agree, get a console that has the games you want to play. That's all the counts. Of course, out of all my friends, I'm the only one w/ a GC, since I like the quirky stuff.

Maybe that explains why I was the one of the Mac users in engineering school back in the late 80's...

Bren,

My brother-in-law has a Cube, PS1, PS2 and an XBox. Every time I'm over at his house listening to my old M80's, the PS2 is always going. The Cube and the XBox are collecting dust! I have no idea if that helps or not but he has 2 boy's who seem to play 24/7 and they are always on the PS2.

My kids have a PS2 and other then GT4, I never touch it but they seem to like it!

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I have all three. But given my time constraints, I tend to play games that I can just pick up and play for a while. I've just found that the 'cube meets MY PERSONAL preferences on that score the best.

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That's what I'm looking at too... like "I have 20 minutes waiting for a render to be done... how can I kill some time?"

Bought it tonight. Gotta love Nintendo and proprietary cables...

Hmm.. power... a regular, run of the mill power cable like on every computer and monitor in the world? (what is that connector called anyway? IEEE0001?) No... it's some proprietary floorwart that terminates in the symbol for the Metis culture with pin 2 running 48 degrees out of phase.

And lessee... video and analog audio... RCAs, right? No. A 468 pin edge connector in the shape of the Sha-Na-Na logo.

Lastly - controllers. Come onnnn a D-sub connector... no. A series of tip-sleeve pins that look like they're from an elephant's tattoo gun slipped discreetly into a DIN connector that's been hammered flat on one side in the Dwarvish forges.

The games are fun, sitting 4 feet in front of a VP-150 brings a whole new life to gaming and I've discovered a brand new and annoying buzzing noise out of my STF-2.

Bren R.