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Originally Posted by Hakan
Why is everyone convinced that the better system will be the one that can cook your dinner, play DVDs and brew a cup of coffee.
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Because if you can have one connection/component that plays games or plays DVDs then that is one less component you need to buy.
I'm as bad as anyone, I took an older PC, put MythTV on it, and now it records TV, Plays CDs and DVDs, and will even play arcade games (through MAME, but I haven't actually set this part up yet). Now if I wasn't afraid to lose the 2 years of Alias episodes my wife has recorded, I'd tear teh whole thing apart, put it in a nice machine in my living room and wouldn't need the DVD/PVR/Game console (theoretically at least).
This is the same reason that phones also do email, play games, take pictures and play music. People would rather have one gadget that does everything rather than carry 3 or 4. In the livingroom they would rather have have one thing to connect to the TV than 2 or 3.
Personally, I agree with you. I would rather have a 'good' dvd player and a 'good' game console than a hodge-podge.
But I know I heard people say that they bought a PS2 and spent $500+ on it because it would play DVDs, so they used the money they would have spent on the DVD player on it instead.