@Tartar Martyr: Man you figured $500 on the hardware it will employ? Think about it, that GPU in today' world will cost you well over $1000, as that is what the 512mb 6800ultra is going for, and this trumps it hands down. Thats just the GPU, a cell processor? New technology, all of it new. $500 is probabally round what it will be, but only because its about a year away, and companies take huge losses in order to sell games, whcih they make money on. So to estimate that price based soley on hardware is wayy off. Even the "lowly" xbox360 has tech that isn't in circulation yet.
As for the Nintendo DS vs. PSP, I'd say its just the fan base. Nintendo could shit in a box at this point and it would outsell anything. Have you played each of the two consoles? Do you really in your heart feel that the DS was better? becasue I sure don't. I'll play Infected over sprung any day of the week.
IMHO nintendo should go the way of sega and make games, because they would sell. They havn't even done what they said they've done with the Revolution, engadget took a look at it, and their console, the one they had in their back room, was simply a wighted box, the cd simply *fell* into the slot, nothing inside to catch the disk.
Anyway, I'm open to all 3 consoles, i've made no decisions, I had ruled out the Nintendo, but I miss Duck Hunt, so if its cheap I may just buy one for my little sister. As for the PS3 or XB360, its all about games.