oh yeah, Ian i did make it really conventional, i figured as a hand held it would have to be something you could slide in and out of your pocket, when i started working on it I had more of an xbox 360 controller design, but i figured...flatter.
and chopsticks...there are some things you can do with chopsticks that you can't do with a fork and knife.
as far as power goes I believe it will be better than the PSP, but not by a super lot. The deal with making cheap and affordable handhelds is that they have to have the most power for a certain sweetspot pricepoint. The Ngage could never do as well as the gameboy advance, and the psp had a similar problem. Gamecube was released in 2001, i'm pretty sure in 2010 that sort of power is available in a handheld for a low price.