Console-Ation

The impulse to get a new console is growing. Even though I just finished GTA: San Andreas on my PS2 a couple of months ago, and blazed through Okami on it more recently (ok, I didn't get quite to the ultimate end because it got boring - but it's a beautiful game!). Looking at all the consoles that are out now, I've only done a casual analysis of them. And calling it an "analysis" is a stretch - it's more like "Oh shiny box!", "Ohh different shiny box!", "Ohhhhh other different shiny box with a weird angle and nunchucks!"

Based on what I've heard from others, this is how it seems to me (tell me if I've got this right - or wrong):

• Wii: ideal for playing games with friends who are in the same room as you (and for adorable little girls early adventures in cursing - maybe I can borrow a teammate's kid to play Wii for me and curse at the game, so I can giggle like an idiot all day). But caution for the slippery handed and flailing maulers.
  
• XBox 360: ideal for playing console games with friends who are somewhere on the intralix, with a good UI, good online features, media center type features, background downloading of files and updates, easy to take your controller and play at a friend's house (but why would you want to do that?). But, you can do all that with a PC...
  
• PS3: ideal for... line gnomes selling to Ebay speculators?

Hmm. Maybe I can resist the urge to get a new console. My PS2 still works fine.

I'm still miffed that the PSP wasn't just a little bit larger (I thought it was originally planned to be able to play DVDs - but noooooo, must.have.proprietary.memory.format. The bastards.).