It could also be a social thing. If your friends are getting Xbox'en then even if the titles are available on the PS3, they are typically hosted on separate servers, so you need to be using the same console.

That's the Only reason I bought a 360. I had a PS3 already, but I wanted to get some gaming done with my local friends. All the folks with whom I played PC games had moved 2 time zones away and it was hard to schedule gaming time. All the local people had 360s and were playing Halo 3 and Gears of War. Before that I never would have considered playing an FPS on a console.

  It turns out I have a lot of fun with the 360 and play on it by myself as much as I do on the PS3. I've learned not to be a snob when it comes to consoles because the only person losing out would be me.

Their hard drive interface is strictly SATA. The drive has the drive model and serial numbers written to sectors 16-22 signed by MS. If those sectors don't match what the drive firmware reports, the Xbox doesn't report the drive as attached. You can pull the drive out of the MS casing and use it just like any other 2.5" SATA drive, but unless you make a backup of sectors 16-22 on the drive, you're not going to get the Xbox to recognize it again.

  I'm guessing it took MS about 10 minutes to come up with that one.

Seeing as she went to Whedon to come up with a show after she'd signed a deal with Fox, I'm going to guess she had some idea where it was going...