[chuckskull]

Got to admit, a lot of this sounds disturbingly familiar since buying a 360 a couple of months back.

The convenience always seems to win out for me and my mates. No IP's to type in while constantly alt-tabbing because you forgot a digit and BF2142 forgot all your fave servers again. No worrying that so and so can play X game because his PC belongs in the natural history museum. No screwing around trying to get everyone on teamspeak/vent or trying to find the push to talk button you keep cursing at yourself to remap to a more memorable key in the heat of a firefight.

I still love PC gaming, don't get me wrong, but a lot of the time I just want to stab my friends in the face with as little mucking about as possible. Live does this well. It still has a lot of catching up to do in a lot of areas(proper server browsers, mods and so on), but it has that "It just works" quality which goes a very long way.