OK, I finally bit bullet. I decided to take the plunge. I put my money where my mouth is.

I finally bought an XBOX 360.

I blame my wife. In all honesty, without her I would not have bought one yesterday. I would do what I normally do - go to Best Buy, go to the XBOX section, check to see if they have any in stock, stare at the demo of Project Gotham Racing 3, drool, say "That's a lot of money", and then leave.

But yesterday, as I was dropping my wife off at the shopping mall so that I could go to Best Buy, she said, "You're not going to buy one. I don't know why you bother going to Best Buy."

And that pretty much did it. I mean, she called me out. She basically called me "chicken" to my face. And so, $700 later, I found myself holding a brand new XBOX 360 Premium Edition and 2 games.

$700 is a lot just to play two games. I can't wait until a couple of years from now when these games end up at the "discount" game bin for $12 like the current XBOX 1.0 titles are.

But, at the end of the day, as I unwrapped my new toy and showed it to my wife, she said "Why don't we put that in the living room?" She claims that it's so that when guests come over, people can easily play it too. But I think she secretly thinks it looks cool!

Oh one more thing: Her first question when I took it out of the box at home was, "Does it play Tetris?". So my maybe my wife is the true gamer in the family?