Amongst the serious gamers here at geek central the consensus is that for games the XBOX is the best, but or course with a PS3 you get the blue ray player. So for non serious gamers I'd go PS3.

The only problem I have is that all the deals at the mo seam to be XBox, I think Asda are doing an Elite console with second wireless controller, the headset thingy and a couple of games for £175.

PS3 I think are going for £200 with one controller and one game.