Someone mentioned it has a hard drive... doesn't that mean it'll be easy for it to become infected by viruses... not much point, but it could develop hard disk based viruses, surely?

Nothin' wrong with the PS2 or even Dreamcast as a game system... Microsoft try to do too much... and don't do any of it very well!!!

[Exception to rule: MS Flight Simulator 2000/2002- One of the *best* flight sims in existence!]