So this is why I am not getting XBox 360

It all started this morning when I saw the deal available from amazon.com, which sells XBox 360 Sim 4Gb for US$199 with US$50 Amazon credit rebate.  I brought most of my stuff my Amazon.com anyway, so this basically says that XBox 360 is selling at US$149.  As a person who always obsess on trying new gaming gadget, this sounds like a pretty nice deal. 

So the question is: should i buy it?

After a near 2 hours research (I consider that quick, consider that most of my purchase decision takes months and sometimes years of research), I told myself, "no, you are not getting it".  Here's why:

• "Creating game for XBox 360" is a stupid excuse: Believe it or not, but this is usually my biggest excuse of getting XBox 360, particularly after I brought PS3 last year.  Gaming is no longer the biggest reason since most of the XBox 360 available titles are on PS3 too.  But I kept telling myself: you can write games for XBox 360 using C# and Visual Studio 2010.  Isn't that awesome.  Well, first of all, in order to run code on XBox360, I have to join the dev program and pay US$99 everyday.  Am I willing to do that?  But more importantly, if I have time, I would much rather spending time developing for iPad, and I already paid US$99 each year to join the iPhone Developer Program.  How many games have I developed?  ZERO!  **ucking ZERO games created?  Why?  Because there are tons of other shit in my life that are in higher propriety.  So, if I couldn't even find time to develop for iPad, something that I am so passionate to do, how to hell will I find time to do that on XBox 360?
  
• No time to play (more) games : I just have to keep reminding myself again and again and again: Daniel Kwan, you do not, I repeat, you do not have a lot of time to play video games unless that quit your damn day job.  So stop fooling yourself.  You already have your PS3 with 3 great games that you have to fight with yourself in order to find time to play it, and then there are tens (probably around 100 now) of demos on PS3 waiting for you to try it out.  And on the top of that, you have iPad, Andriod, PSP plus tons of emulator games, NDS, Wii ...   So how in the world can you find time to play even TRY OUT games?
  
• Not gonna play Kinect games at home : one of the great excuse for getting XBox 360 is to play something exclusive to XBox 360: Kinect.  Too bad the fun and hype on it is pretty much gonna by now, and I am not going to be a sad loner playing Kinect games at home by myself.
  
• Not useful unless I get the 250Gb HD, and suddenly the price is not cheap anymore: The reason why I enjoy my PS3 even though I only have 3 games is because (A) it's an awesome media player (B) I can try out tons of demo.  Technically I can do the same to XBox Live.  However, with 4Gb harddisk, there's no way I can enjoy XBox Live.  So that means I have to buy the 250Gb harddisk.  Suddenly that's another US$90,  Plus I need to pay U$60 annually to subscript XBox Live.  And Finally I have to find PEOPLE to play with me on XBox Live.  The more I think about it, the more I found those not making sense to me.
  
• No exclusive XBox 360 titles that I enjoy playing: I checked some wiki list, and yeah, there's no exclusive XBox 360 title that I have play.  I don't play FPS, and just that should be enough for me to skip XBox 360.
  
• XBox 360 Slim is still not hackable yet: Nope, I am not thinking about pirating (otherwise I won't buy PS3), but no hacking means no alternative media center feature and such.  Not a major reason, but another bullet point that I care.
  
• XBox 360's hardware problem track record: fool me once shame on me, fool me twice shame on you.  RROD change to red dot in the middle of the ring.
  
  

Hopefully, next time when I am hyped thinking about getting XBox 360, I will have this article to remind me why not.