a thing that made me go hmmm...

i was sitting around the other day, as it's something i'm rather fond of doing, when i asked myself the following question: "fil, why are you okay spending 400 dollars on an ipod, but not on a new xbox?" well, after much deliberation i've decided that the biggest factor in that decision is portability.

i love my ipod. really. i don't really go anywhere without it, but all it does is play music, right? wrong. it can play movies and such but thats not what i'm referring to. it's a portable hard drive, with music & movie capabilities. that little device manages to bring me a little bit of joy every day. there's something great about finding a new trailer online, converting it to ipod video, and showing all of my friends the cool new movie coming out.

my 360 has a hard drive too. that hard drive can play music & movies as well. hell, it's even portable. here's the catch. i need my 360 to hear/view anything on that hard drive. bummer. the 360 is HUGE. don't get me wrong, i'm really diggin' the 360. 'geometry wars' rocks my ass, 'uno' is somehow just as fun as the 'real world' version of the game, and i've been playing 'hexic' like a rhesus monkey on crack. and those are just the XBLA games. i haven't even touched on 'Oblivion', 'Saint's Row', 'DEAD RISING', 'DOA4' & 'Table Tennis'. so what's my problem?

well, to be honest, i find it a little weird that the games i'm playing the hell out of, are not the ones i paid up to 60 bucks for. i've been playing the XBLA games, which incedentally DON'T need a 400 dollar console to played. at first, this irked me quite a bit, and then i figured 'hey, if you only need to spend 5-10 bucks on each game, that means more games.' hooray! (edit: saint's row has now taken over as the game with most hours logged)

so, here i go to rack up some achievement points, or, more likely, get my ass kicked by geometry wars. all the while, streaming music from my ipod. it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. who woulda' thunk microsoft & apple would get along so well. rodney king, eat your heart out.