I find the controller thing hilarious- the triggers are nicer to press down on than the springy ones on an Xbox controller and much better than the mush-ish buttons a PS2 controller uses, the C stick is just an analog stick with a different name and altered shape (just stick a pad on top and look, it's an analog stick), and I can agree that the d-pad is awkward to use. While online mode may have been lacking, not all people who had Xboxes had online either. And for DVD playback, I'd rather play games on my game system, not have another multimedia center I don't need.