Well then the wait is over. With some help from Dan I have got my grubby mitts on a console; so now I can play my games! Yippee! 

I have got it all plugged in and working, so here are a few observations from an afternoons worth of playing. 

• The Dolby 5.1 in most of the games is fantastic. 
• PGR3 is brilliant no matter how many FPS it runs at. 
• Gun is good, looks like it will be a good story driven game. 
• Kameo is pretty but not played it much. 
• Halo2 runs fine. 
• Condemned is scary as hell. 
• Kong is beautiful, some of the scenery detail is awesome 
• NFS-MW Pretty, although there seems to be slight hiccups as it loads textures? 
• PD-0 not played enough but it moves fluidly and looks great 
• Call of Duty is very pretty, will play that more later 
• Tiger Woods looks pretty seems to play well enough, but apparently online play is flawed 
• Hexic great for a no cost (well the cosole is 279 pounds) game. 
• Gauntlet brilliant 

Some other observations are things like the text on a lot of the games is very small obviously designed for larger than your average 30ish inch screens. The console has also ‘crashed’ twice on me, only whilst coming out of a game back to the desktop. I’ve also noticed it makes a fair chunk of noise, now that did not bother me earlier as I could have the sound up nice and high, but the wife will kill me if I do that while she is in bed ;) 

On a plus side the integration with WinXP MCE 2005 is great, works a treat, I can watch telly on my telly using the 360, it somehow makes it cooler! ;) The visualisations for music are great as well. 

More of a proper ‘review’ when I get the time. However I’m sure you are sick of people telling you how great the machine is, and it is, the way it is all linked together at the desktop is brilliant, Microsoft obviously did a lot of research into the interface, and for the most part I think they got it right.