360 Reasons To Ask Santa for an Xbox 360 This Christmas

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358. Avatars
If you’re going to blatantly leap aboard Nintendo’s Mii bandwagon, you might as well improve on the experience. The Xbox avatars just feel a little bit more—what’s the word?—oh right…awesome! I always felt like my Nintendo Mii looked like it belonged in a Fisher Price toy set. My Xbox avatar has more personality and actual clothes instead of that weird little bulbous, blue-colored body. Now I’m not only a video-game nerd but I get to play with dolls! Score!

357. The new entry-level price

Remember when the Xbox 360 first came out and it was really expensive and you’d mope down the video-game aisle at Target and smoosh your face up against the glass casing and moan about the fact that you’d have to mow 137 lawns to have that much disposable income? Well, Microsoft has dropped the entry-level price to $199. And with cheap games waiting for you on half.com, you don’t have to be filthy rich to get your game on.

356. FUN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Xbox 360 tempts you with so much fun that your boss will be forced to shrug good-naturedly when you bail out early on your stupidly ambitious 360-item list to fire it up.

Then again, you might be one of those people who hates fun and looks down on people you enjoy playing video games. You might be one of those people who write nasty, vitriolic letters to magazine editors, berating them for extolling the multitudinous joys of interactive entertainment. But Santa is not one of those people, and if you ask him nicely for an Xbox 360, you just might be playing against Rudolph in some co-op reindeer games over Xbox Live this holiday season.

*** What does the Hinkle Family Fun Center mascot—pictured above—have to do with "FUN !!!!!!!!" you ask? Just ask the dude in the white visor behind him who's awkwardly covering his nose and wearing sexy, high-waisted black shorts. Like Microsoft's Xbox division, the folks at the Hinkle Family Fun Center know a thing or two about the recipe for instant fun. Just add plaid! (Also, this picture is one of the first things to pop up when you do a Google image search for "fun.")