I found myself increasingly using XBox for gaming almost exclusively. Being a hardcore PC gamer for years, this surprised me - isn't XBox technically inferior to the PC? Then I stated rationalizing it and noted the things I like:

• it's extremely easy to start and also to let go (one button to turn it on and the same to turn it off)
• the controller is clumsier than keyboard/mouse combo, but most games have consistently similar setups, thus it's very easy to learn "new" control scheme; there's nothing to customize
• graphics are of lower quality than on the PC, but are consistently good and frame rates are mostly constant; again, nothing to customize
• online experience is flawless - once set up, It Just Works^TM

All of this sounded strangely familiar... Of course - Joel wrote about this phenomena in one of his classic posts:

The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way. If you're willing to live with not-very-goodness, you can have a Big Mac with absolutely no chance of being surprised in the slightest.

Replace Big Mac with XBox and the statement remains valid.