... man are you guys just not gettting it? Initally the price will be set at $400 and yeah there's plenty of people who are more than willing to dish that out and those casual gamers will just wait for the price drop that will follow--it's not that hard to understand.
And budget graphicscards are like $200 (I'm talking about something that'll play a decent FPS for today's games as well as 6 months from now). Then there's blu-ray--again I'm going get one of these anyhow so might as well go for a combo as long as the playback is good quality anyhow.
Yeah alot of you are screaming "I don't own an HDTV" so why do I care about Blu-ray. Simple--storage, 100GB of space vrs 4.9(9GB)DVD's--you can have complete freaking seasons on a single disc. Something to think about anyhow.
And the PSP isn't selling because there's a drought in the software department!! Hense, look at Nintendogs or whatever it's called--it's selling hardware--since it's release along with multiple new colors DS is selling again (a few months back it was in a slump). All the PSP needs is the right software for that extra kick but saddly it's not happening anytime soon *cough* Coded Arms failure *cough*.
Sidenote, I (like many others) was taking the wait and see approach for the handheld wars but as of E3 2005, sony just dropped the ball--I'll be getting the DS sooner or later. At first it looked like sony would have put up a better fight (psp launch was a good success with a strong lineup), but it didn't last too long and now it looks as if sony's already looking ahead to the PS3 and forgetting all about the PSP.