Bingowings said:

I have friends with 360s and Wiis who will eventually want to upgrade.

So if I eventually do want to move into generation 7 I would have to find some other source for PS3 games and who wants to trust a sony owned cloud?

As for the fragility of the 7th gens. My 360, as far as I know (been having trouble getting it back from a girl*), still works. It is from 2008. It is a jasper unit, one of the last models before the slim design came out, those models are suppose to have a very low failure rate.

My PS3 slim died eleven months after the date of purchase (brand new). Almost missed the warranty on that one. I barely used it during those eleven months. Months would pass by without me ever turning it on, and I think I have yet to beat a single game on it. While on the phone trying to work out getting it fixed, the guy kept trying to sell me a warranty, saying it was very likely the refurbished model they are going to send me as a replacement could very likely fail within another eleven months and that paying $99 for a 3 year guarantee would be prudent. I told him if they are really that fragile and it dies again in less than a year, my 360 and I will just have to go on without it.

*She has my tea kettle and my pajama pants too. Seriously, try getting over a heartbreak without tea, video games, or ridiculously comfy pajama pants, that whole situation was downright cruel!