I'm confused: what makes you think it's different on XBOX??? As far as I know it's all the same.

By their DRM policy you mean "deny everything"? Like, you can only download a movie _you've purchased_ only once, and it's being tied up to a console and not to your account? Then, by all means, PS3 is your console.

I, meanwhile, prefer no DRM at all, but if I absolutely have no choice - I'd choose MS DRM, where content that you buy is being tied up to your account, and you can download it on any console, where you have migrated your account.

Yes, you can, and it's pretty simple - I've got Toshiba 200GB, 7200 rpm model. Very fast! The problem is, there isn't much I can use the 200GB for - I figure the contents of the entire PSN store can fit on this disk alone :)

I have already said what's the main reason I don't like playing online on PS3: inability to mute all those morons, who keep their mics unmuted, blasting music away, or making some other noise, and inability to do anything about players who either cheat, or do other things considered inacceptable in human society. In XBL I can do something about it, like I said - I can mute the player, system-wide (it's not related to any specific game, it's completely independent feature, built into XBL), I can select to avoid this player and never be playing in the same game as him, or I can even submit a formal complaint to Microsoft about the player - all from XBox Dashboard, all - system features, not specifically designed or incorporated into any specific game.

And another thing - XBox from the beginning was being sold with a headset bundled, and the headset was pretty good. Some might not liked it, but the best part of it was its mute/volume controls: they were located on the plug, connected to your controller, so all these controls were right under your fingers. When you enter any multiplayer game on XBL - most people have headsets, but you won't hear a blip from any of them, unless they want to say something. And if anyone starts making noise - he will be shushed and cursed, and might end up having lots of "avoid" reviews submitted about him, or even kicked from the game, if the game has such a feature. And what you have on PSN is lots of people with unmuted mics, producing incredible amount of noise, and not a single person would complain about it: they all got used to it. I bought a bluetooth headset for PS3 just so I can turn it on (with its mic muted, of course), and leave sitting on the desk - just so that I don't have to listen to all that noise on my audio speakers. This is ridiculous :(

The main problem with Playstation 3 is lack of direction: Sony is trying to push it in all direction at once. In all irrelevant directions, except for one that actually matters: gaming. Its PSN service is free, sure, but there's a reason why it's free: there's really no service. Compare PSN to XBL! What XBL offers to gamers and what does PSN offer? XBL makes online gameplay a bliss: you can mute annoying players, you can mark them as avoided players, you can mark them as preferred players, you can even submit a formal complaint to Microsoft about a player. You can chat with other friends, who are not even in a game you're currently playing, both using text, video and voice - to up to 4 friends! You can send messages while in the game, you can invite friends who play another game. Et cetera et cetera. What does PSN offer? Absolutely nothing. So what is PSN, really? All it is a network connection - that's all. Nothing more, nothing less. And if that's what it is - it's also free on XBL.

But at the same time Sony spends time and resources, developing Life with Playstation, which would be used by like all 10 people, or Home, which adds absolutely nothing to what actually matters - games. It does not improve gaming experience at all!

And, speaking about bluray drive in PS3: it's slow as hell! Twice slower than the DVD drive in Xbox 360: 9 megabytes per second vs. 16 megabytes per second. Sure, you can install the content onto a hard drive, but it takes time.

MGS4 makes fun out of xbox 360 at some point, referring to the need to exchange disks, if you want to play a game that doesn't fit onto one disk. How many games for Xbox do you know that have more than one disk? And what is easier and faster: replace a disk, or wait for 5 minutes while a game installs its content onto a hard disk, as MGS4 does?

And my favorite: the fact that Sony vouched for Bluetooth (seems like Sony has a knack for everything blue ;) ) made it possible for people to use ANY headset with it, which made online gameplay simply UNBEARABLE, when coupled with complete lack of ability to mute players. So people started using regular cell-phone headsets, which don't have a mute button, and even those that do require you to move your hand to your ear to mute the mic. Enter any multiplayer lobby - and you'll be deafened by all the noise those headsets produce!

But look! PS3's got Life with Playstation 3, where you can stare at a screen with an Earth on it for hours! Because there's not much else to do with it...

One thing where PS3 is better than its main competitor is quiet operation and nice looking XMB. I hate my XBOX 360 simply because of all the noise, and I'm seriously considering getting that new case from Lian Li. That's pretty much the only thing Sony got right.

And I'm sure that until Sony finally starts paying more attention to the original purpose of PLAY station (I'm sure there's a good reason it's called _PLAY_station!) - gaming, PS3 will always be looked upon as something that's looking nice, but mostly useless.