many robots

Between CES and E3 I think a lot of things are going to sort themselves out. How, exactly, that ends up happening isn't something I'm going to predict. My take on it is that if your goal is to play games the PS2 has a whole lot of life left in it, the DS finally got a real library this fall/winter, the PSP seems to be picking up on the game front and the Gamecube and XBox have boatlods of great games available cheap. The woes of the early adopter have been well-documented since the SNES days, the only real difference is that the amounts of money have increased and the amount of time before the library really gets cranking has become longer.

That said, there's a chance that the 360 might end up "caught in the middle" so to speak with the Revolution being cheaper and the PS3 being more powerful. All I know is that Microsoft needs to start daily beatings at Bungie until Halo 3 comes out if they really want their head start to count. DOA4 might help in Japan a bit but they're climbing uphill.