NOTE: forgive the grammer and spelling errors it's a big post and I've been a little stripped of time to properly edit it yet.

All i'm going to say is that it's taken microsoft a year with it's 360 to put out any titles that would be of interest to me personally and of that theres only 4 titles on the system I would ever consider picking up and playing.

Gears of war, Dead rising, 99 nights, and chromehounds

At this point I think it's safe to say that with the ps3 and wii around the corner anyone who does not currently have a 360 is not very likely to get one for a while until after christmas is all payed off. especially if they get a ps3.

With the lack of exclusive titles for the 360 right now they may fall behind the two new systems altogether but something tells me if they do indeed have halo 3 (not a fan myself but hey I recognize landmarks) and some new exlcusive titles out right before the ps3 launch they may stave it off in moderate numbers.

ps3 let's not even get started they have just been way way too arogant lately and are at a loss indeed for public relations right now.
It's gonna hurt them a lot on loss becuase at this point with only two games out there with large public appeal (MGS4 and FF13) for a 600 dollar price tag your going to have to have a lot of good presentation to make a sale.

Don't get me wrong it's a great machine for the price. but how many of us at this point and time need "a second computer" were gamers and we need a machine for games plain and simple. It's hard to really question who sony is aiming this product at becuase with that price tag they have pretty much lost any parents who would buy their kid this thing when you have such cheaper alternatives around.

Finally we have the wii.

This is probally by far the most gamer hyped system coming out and with good reason. It's something totally new and best of all a lot of things you pay more for on other systems like online play and accces to demo content is free.

This is also the cheapest system at a price point of no more then 250 dollars and maybe even less then that. With games also being targeted at a max of 50 dollars your probally getting the most out of your money by far with this machine.

Let's face it no one at this point can really say anything about the wii other then it's cheap price and that it's totally something new and well it's exciting to see someone take a risk like the wii.

Will they suceed. If the DS (inovation) to PSP (technology) war is any idication odds are in their favor thus far but consoles do follow some minor rule changes compared to portables so the implications are reduced even if they are there.

All facts set aside my personal opinon is sony is poised to come in last place with minimal good developers openly wanting to publish for them and a high price tag throwing off a lot of the gaming population.

Xbox360 while deffinatly not a slacked this round of consoles is IMO probally going to hit second spot halfway into 2007 and easily hold that spot. All in all they have just taken too long to get the good games out there and it's going to hurt them. Middle of the pack in developers wanting to publish for them as well has left them with some good titles that will deffinatly pull a few people into buying their machine.

Wii is IMO while mostly unknown deffinatly going to take home first prize this generation. This is probally mostly due to it's very affordable cost and the fact that already there is a great launch lineup going on including Zelda, Dragon warrior, sonic, and possibly metroid.

That's pretty solid going out of the gates and they have a huge developer support base compared to the more expensive to produce xbox360 and ps3.