My opinion in the whole matter? Well, first of all, in my view, going by my tastes, I'd go for XBL over RS simply because I am a big FPS and action game player, despite the fact that I'm addicted as hell to RS. Same goes for the fact that I choose X-box over PS because X-box has better FPS games (like Halo and Unreal Championship 2), whereas PS has more quality RPG's. Pus, since I'm American, and a pretty patriotic one at that, I naturally pick the American developer over the Japanese developer. But Sony has nothing to do with this... Nor do my specific tastes... Your choice should depend on your own tastes, if you like shooters and action games more, go with XBL, if your more into slower paced, or RPG games, then go with RS. But seeing as you literally have an X-box 360 with your name on it, go ahead and make use of it; get XBL. As for all the people out there that call the X-box 360 X-box 1.5, well, think about it, the consoles are getting to the point, and I believe Nintendo already stated this, they are getting to the point where you cannot simple revamp the graphics, as they are already beginning to smear the line between computer generated graphics and photo-realism. There's my piece in this pie...