Is Bill Gates' box tops?

Why we like it: The 360 is probably the best buy right now thanks to the one-year head start it has on the competition. The payoff is a library of 150-plus games. The 360 is also the clear champion of online gaming and its $50-per-year online service is extremely robust with video chat, gamer achievements and myriad downloads including games, game demos, movies, movie trailers and TV programming.

Need to know: The 360's hard drive is only 20GB so if you download a lot of content you'll hit the wall sooner or later, and there's not a larger drive available. You can also buy an HD DVD add-on drive ($200) -- which is a pretty sweet way to enter the world of high-def movies.