There is an interesting article over at our sister site www.liveforxbox.com, the article talks about the benefits of the XBox 360 coming out an entire year earlier.  I know what you are thinking yeah-yeah-yeah you are going to talk about sales figures and market placement and install base.  But those have been discussed to death already, the hidden benefit I see is getting comfortable with the XBox 360 and XBox LIVE to the point that we compare the Nintendo Wii and Sony PS3 not to the Nintendo GameCube or the Sony PS2 but to the Microsoft XBox 360?  Click on over there and give it a read!

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