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When the Xbox 360 was out in stores, I wasn't really arsed about getting one. My Dreamcast was still doing me just fine.
Mass Effect looked cool (it was), and Alan Wake had taken my fancy and looked great (it was).
What really tipped my hand into spending a couple of hundred quid on a console was... Doom. The XBLA version of the original.
I'm a massive Doom nerd, but the first time I heard the new positional audio of a Imp's fireball in 5.1, I just about spaffed - and I took a day off work to hoon through Doom 2 and No Rest For The Living.
I think there's something quite satisfying about playing a game on a device massively overspec'd for it. I played Quake III on a Pentium 3 450mhz with 64mb RAM and a TNT2 M64 card, and every new PC or laptop that I get, I still find it deeply gratifying installing Q3 and seeing it run silky smooth.