I've been toying with the idea of buying an XBOX! for some time now!
I have one out at the minute on a ten day trial (with Halo and Munch) and I think its Absolutely Awesome!!!! and very tempted to keep it!!
It will blow the kaks off PS2!!!!
Now I know it will drop in price before Xmas (£199???) But surely it would make more sense to buy one from the earlier batch, even at the higher price, as these are usually the first to get chipped and the easiest to mod?
Thus saving money on expensive games later, you will more than recoup your extra £99!
Cheers
Dr Snuggles............

well with the PS2 all the messiah and NEO4 modchips were first designed for version 4 of the console.
but reading up it seems with a bit of software hacking it could be possible to get it to playgames without a modchip (but i dont want to go into detail about that just read on of the many xboxhacking sites out there)