It takes a good 20 minutes to set up a brand new 360 after you've gone through all the configuration pages, set up gamertags, created a Live account, linked you

It takes a good 20 minutes to set up a brand new 360 after you've gone through all the configuration pages, set up gamertags, created a Live account, linked your Live account to your gamertag, created an avatar, downloaded essential system updates etc. That's before it will even read a game disc, let alone creating a second profile for your kids with restricted access. You can maybe half it by not connecting it to the internet, but there are still far too many steps. The PS3 has fewer steps but they're hidden in obscure menus and the downloading takes at least 12 billion times as long.