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I posted something like this last year but here goes: The GC controller is... shall we say... inadequate. Playing Time Splitters became a chore for me and my friends who own the system kept kicking my ass for a week. This is the Kate Moss of controllers: Thin, fragile, and lacking functionality. The Xbox controller (the regular one) is great for me 'cause my hands are kinda big, it has substance. It's the latina with the nice booty of the controllers. My friends and I agree that the PS2 controller is one of the best. Analog everything, small, but not too small, great for all genres (Xbox fails miserably for most fighting games and Tony Hawk). It is the Mia Kunis or Beyonce Knowles of the controllers, the crowd pleaser. Something for everyone. A while ago, I noticed that the Xbox and PS2 contollers have the same number of bottons, sticks, and pads... I wonder... 

Gee, how insightful....yet, at the same time, completely retarded...   

I only used the original Xbox controller at demos in stores, and didn't like it then. But the Controller S I have is great, it has all the best aspects of the DC that I'm used to and improves on it considerably. I actually feel the GC controller is too small, and the PS2 controller never felt good in my hands. But it is all about personal choice, I'm glad that there are three consoles all competing for our dollars right now and that everyone has choices. This whole 'fanboy' crap is really stupid IMO. I don't think the PS2 or GC have what I like in gaming, so I got an Xbox instead. If you love Mario, obviously you know which system you should get.

I just got Halo yesterday, finally, and I have to say it is the best video game I've ever played. It's amazing, and the Xbox controller really does work well with FPS, as long as the game itself is tuned well for it. Halo and Serious Sam are, but so far I've tried MOH:F and Jedi Knight (?) which I thought were way too cumbersome. Halo just flows and I never even thought about the controller being inferior.

i think for non-platformers, the cube control is seriously lacking. 

the s-control, imo, is a perfectly balanced control

and like i said earlier, the PS2 does nothing well, but does nothing poorly as well.

I didn't like the controls in TimeSplitters2. The aiming was too cumbersome IMO. Maybe I just don't like how the guns bend while you aim, that's just weird. I guess you can get used to it, but since Halo handles so well, it seems odd that other games in this genre on the same consoles can be so different. Otherwise it looks like an awesome game, I just played on level. The '20 gangsta sceens look cool, so do the wild west ones.

One game I'd like to see on the Mac is Serious Sam. The engine is all OpenGL and it's engine has relatively meager demands. Plus you can have a whole lot of enemies onscreen at a time. They only charge $10 for the Windows version now, $20 for the Xbox. It would be cool if some Mac developer liscenced the engine and made some cool Mac-first games. That would be refreshing.

Get an Xbox. It is great. I have one and it fufills all of my gaming needs.

Halo was designed for the Xbox. It was ORGINIALLY a strategy game for the Mac but alot changed and it uses alot of Xbox specific things to make it look swanky.

The main controller is great if you are an adult or have equivalent hands.

It does NOT cost $400 to make an Xbox. It never did and now that all the hardware involved in it is older, it costs even less.

There are alot of great games. I have about 15 and love them all (I am picky with my games). Xbox Live is great too.

Mac for work, Xbox for play.

So long,
Larg0

Well, personally I'm avoiding the X-Box because it's by Microsoft. That company's evil, and the main reason I switched to a Mac is because of that (forced registration in Windows XP finally did it for me). It would be pretty stupid of me to turn around and support the X-Box. Like all the consoles, every game you buy is directly giving money to the hardware manufacter. I'd much rather be giving it to Nintendo or Sony, not that I'm crazy about them either, but they're no Microsoft.

So you're avoiding a perfectly awsome game console because you think Microsoft is evil? I'm sorry, but you're the short sighted one. It's not the 1980's anymore. And I'm sorry Windows XP Registration turned you off; its really a pity you cant pirate Windows, something many programmers work hard on to create, isn't it?

So smurfing what if the Xbox loses money every time its produced? The PS2 has the same problem. It's called COM, or Cost of Manufature. Sony and Microsoft both charge royalties on their games, Sony $7 and Microsoft $5. This includes testing by both companies, but the fact is royalties keep profits up. Please stop using the argument that 'Microsoft's Xbox costs $400 dollars to make and it's only $200! LOL BUY ONE SO YOU HURT MICROSOFT'

smurfing idiots.

It's not hurting Micrsoft. They're gaining market saturation. They're releasing an Xbox SE, a smaller, compact, and cheaper Xbox in a few months. It will hover around $120-$99, with all the same features.

Microsoft has BILLIONS of dollars on hand, more than Sony. They can dump literally billions into marketing and promotions in the US, dominating the US market. Sony has the problem of worldwide marketing, and having to distrubute its ads over many markets.

Maybe, in the end, the Xbox will be the US's console, and only ours. And frankly, what's wrong with that?

Well yeah, so I bought one. It really is the only Microsoft product that I've liked. If they do a good job, I'm not going to go out of my way to not buy one if I want one. Similarly, when Apple screws up, I don't feel like buying a product of theirs just to support them. Xbox live is also done very well, but I don't want any live enabled games so I not going to get that any day soon.

Evil by American Heritage:
1. Morally bad or wrong; wicked: an evil tyrant. See Synonyms at bad1.
2. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful: the evil effects of a poor diet.
3. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous: evil omens.
4. Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous: an evil reputation.
5. Characterized by anger or spite; malicious: an evil temper.

Honestly, that applies to a darn lot of businesses. Sony and Nintendo are really only out to make money too. Sony isn't any better than Microsoft. They make movies, music, and electronics and computers to use them on. Look at what they are doing with their publishing. Assuming everyone is a bad person, they are screwing everybody with their copy protection crap. You can't encode any Sony CD easily anymore because they make them impossible to read in computers. I don't have any MP3 on my hard drive that I don't have the CD for. Then again I don't have any Sony CD's.
Does any other platform you own include a playstation? Check slashdot sometime to see all the crap that comes up about Sony.