A video game system is made to play Video Games!!!!! Not DVDs! Not CDs! Have you ever thought that maybee they just put those features on to make you think your getting a better system? Maybee they can't push the actule Video Game system any further so they throw in extras to try to make it sell. I don't have any proof of this, but it would make sense, wouldn't it? Anyway, I feel you buy a Video Games system to play Video Games. If you want to play CDs well, have you ever herd of CD players? Also DVDs can be played on DVD players! Wow technology is so advanced isn't it? If the Game Cube could play them it would be a nice EXTRA. But that's all it would be. I already have a DVD and CD player. So why would I need another? It is not nesesary for makeing a great Video Game system! I wounder if Niontendo would have had this problem if they stuck to cartrages? I apalogize if I sounded a little ruff. It just seems like you here people with your reasoning again and again. I just plain don't agrea that it is a nesesity. I think it's just an execery. A small convinince. I don't think that it should MAKE they system. If putting a DVD and CD player on Video Game System is ALL that makes it popular I think that it is an incredably week system. They should only be looked at as execeryies, not the system itself. Besides, how many of you already have a CD and DVD player? If you do, than the only thing your getting with those other systems is the same thing, if not weeker than the brand names, cramed together with a Video Game System. I just don't think it's nesesary to have them. It shouldn't make the system. If people are begining to believe that those do make the system, I think the Video Game Market in general will become a sad place. If you want to see witch Video Game system is the best, look at the GAMES!!!, not the system! You could have the most modernized, and powerful, and execerized system in the world, but without great games, you have nothing. At least in the Video Game Sense. Just another flashy toy to show off to your friends. Not something fun to play, though. You might like those other systems. You may think they are fun to play. If you do, that's your choice. But you should judge a Video Game system by its games, not its features. As for Nintendo's Games, I'm still waiting for Mario Sunshine. Then Mortal Kombat Deadly Alince. I'm not shure if I want Spider-Man or not, though. Anaway, sorry for being so harsh on you. Don't take it personaly. Many, many other people probably have your same opinion. That's ok. Your free to think what you want. But I'm also free to disagree. And I do. Like I said, Notheing personal to you, though. I just don't belive those extras should make he system.