Wii will be a diffrent sort of system with it's funky controlers and all. But it still won't have as many mature games as Xbox/PlayStation. Since Nintendo is more based for the younger players.

RE: Carts vs CDS

Carts are better as far as loading times are concerned, and having built in memory would be cool but as Bugsy said, they're so expensive to manufacture that it's not cost effective for companies to make games for carts. Sure, it doesn't cost $50 to make a disk, but companies aren't gonna decide to make gaming a little more convenient for the consumer if it means them losing millions in profits..

.. One idea would be to use a more complex pre-loading system to enable disks to continue being loaded into a console's memory while you carry on playing the first stage/scene/level of a game... I dont know why they dont already work like this?

Also carts aren't that reliable. Anyone with a snes for example will tell you they've never had a 100% success rate loading carts. Maybe more modern consoles could get around that though?

I believe Nintendo's best selling home console system was the Nes and that was obviously a long time ago.While Nintendo has failed to make a popular and better selling home console, the company continues to do extremely well with making a profit off in hardware sales and they continue to dominate the handheld market with the series of GameBoys and now with the DS.

The PS3 supports HDTV, but that does not mean that PS3 owners mustuse an HDTV set to play PS3 games on.The power of the PS3 is already capable of producing impressive,detailed and crisp graphics.The PS3 blu-ray games contain around 25GB of memory storage space allowing developers to have a lot of creative freedom and attention to details and Sony plans on expanding the game disc memory to 50GB.Basically, the PS3 is going to be the ideal next-gen system for developers to make big and beautiful games without developers having to worry as much about having to make as many sacrifices.

For the record, I've always been a Nintendo fan and only own Nintendo systems. I look forward to getting a Wii.However, I personally have more concerns for Wii than for PS3. This includes stuff like Nintendo's inexperience in full home console online support, third party developer support and the long-term interest of the success or failure of the Wii-mote controller.

Based only on what I know so far, I think Wii is going to win the battle but PS3 is going to win the war.

I seriously would not expect any PS3 price drops any time soon because Sony has to first deal with losing a lot of money off of the PS3 launch period and then they need to wait so that they can produce cheaper PS3 components before any price drop can be announced.

Honestly, I think Sony has the right idea and they are making the long-term decisions to ensure that PS3 will succeed but the success of the Blu-Ray is a different matter.While the PS3 is the most expensive next-gen machine,many customers are willing to spend that much money for a machine they know will offer exactly what they expect unlike the risky Wii and it's questionable future.I do agree with you about Sony's arrogance.

Xbox 360 should do fairly well this holiday season thanks to the new exclusive killer app title, Gears of War which has recieved very high scores.

I think Ubisoft claimed that Red Steel for Wii will feature little to no loading times. I don't know if you'd call it streaming or not though. Nintendo took loading time into consideration and designed Wii to load faster than GameCube. I believe Sony has said something about faster loading times on the PS3 and if it's true, then it would be great because the PS1 and PS2 had horrible reputations for loading times.