I myself have an Xbox360 for the HD 'shiny/geeky' gaming experience, things like Forza Motorsport and PGR still make me go 'ooooh' with the just plain stunning graphics, and I love playing things like Plan9 and even Hexic2. It's also got a great HD-DVD drive (Season 1 of Heroes in HD, anyone?) which just so happens to work on my Mac too, along with a brilliant upscaling DVD drive when used with a VGA cable. It does make DVD's look very very nice.
Wifey has a Wii because she doesn't care about graphics, but enjoys the easy to use controls and the playability - she's one of those people who tilts the controller when playing the Xbox because she thinks it'll feed back to the console - but I don't think she's alone, and that is what the Wii has capitalised on. It's all about the games and how they play, vs just being eye candy, which is what the PS3/Xbox seem to think. Just sit and play WiiSports or Rayman for a bit and you'll see why it works so well.
I also like the web browser on the Wii because it just works (it's opera) and it's an easy way to surf the net without having to mess around with a PC.
However, neither of them are my music media centre - I have a Macbook which does that role. The Wii just doesn't bother because it knows it's a games console. The Xbox has the most irritating UI known to man for navigating music or video content, whereas Apple just have it sewn up with Front Row.
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Two Consoles
I have two consoles.
I myself have an Xbox360 for the HD 'shiny/geeky' gaming experience, things like Forza Motorsport and PGR still make me go 'ooooh' with the just plain stunning graphics, and I love playing things like Plan9 and even Hexic2. It's also got a great HD-DVD drive (Season 1 of Heroes in HD, anyone?) which just so happens to work on my Mac too, along with a brilliant upscaling DVD drive when used with a VGA cable. It does make DVD's look very very nice.
Wifey has a Wii because she doesn't care about graphics, but enjoys the easy to use controls and the playability - she's one of those people who tilts the controller when playing the Xbox because she thinks it'll feed back to the console - but I don't think she's alone, and that is what the Wii has capitalised on. It's all about the games and how they play, vs just being eye candy, which is what the PS3/Xbox seem to think. Just sit and play WiiSports or Rayman for a bit and you'll see why it works so well.
I also like the web browser on the Wii because it just works (it's opera) and it's an easy way to surf the net without having to mess around with a PC.
However, neither of them are my music media centre - I have a Macbook which does that role. The Wii just doesn't bother because it knows it's a games console. The Xbox has the most irritating UI known to man for navigating music or video content, whereas Apple just have it sewn up with Front Row.