The Gaming Addiction with 360 achievements.

Until now we have been playing games just long enough to defeat them so that we can feel a strong form of satisfaction and accomplishment. In single player gaming environments we have learned that once the game has been beaten and we’ve seen the scrolling credits that its time to shelf the game or sell it off to our local EB Games, GameStop, or other game outlet. The 360 achievement system gives the casual gamers and the hardcore gamers one more outlet of addiction.

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This article has changed my opinion on how good the 360 is. Although it's not really a hardware achievement but more of a software achievement, it's still gives the 360 more value. Read the full article here:

Source: http://www.2old2play.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=208&mode=&order=0&thold=0

It gives games replay values at different difficulties...gives more value to completing certain side things in games...there's a reason to do it other than to just be a completist in the game. I like it...but at the same time it's somewhat useless. Well..I guess games in general are useless.